Alan John Dix FCBS FLSW is a British author, researcher, and university professor, specialising in human–computer interaction (HCI). He is one of the four co-authors of the university level textbook Human–Computer Interaction.^[1] Dix is the Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University, since May 2018.^[2] He was previously a professor at Lancaster University.^[3]

In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.^[4]

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

• Dix, Alan; Finlay, Janet E.; Abowd, Gregory D.; Beale, Russell (20 December 2003). Human-Computer Interaction (3 ed.). Pearson Education. ISBN 9780130461094.
• Dix, Alan; Finlay, Janet E.; Abowd, Gregory D.; Beale, Russell (12 January 1998). Human-Computer Interaction (2 ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0132398648.
• Dix, Alan; Finlay, Janet E.; Abowd, Gregory D.; Beale, Russell (1993). Human-Computer Interaction (1 ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780134582665.
• Dix, Alan; Finlay, Janet E. (29 June 1996). An Introduction To Artificial Intelligence (1st ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9781857283990.
• Dix, Alan (1991). Formal Methods for Interactive Systems. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-218315-7.

Contributions[edit]

• Diaper, D.; Winder, R., eds. (1987). "Myth of the Infinitely Fast Machine". People and Computers III. Cambridge University Press. pp. 215–228. ISBN 9780521351973. This book contains a chapter written by Dix, in summary from the 1987 British Computer Society of Human-Computer Interaction held at University of Exeter.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Alan's homepage
• HCI Book Website
• HCI Course on interaction-design.org
• Alan Dix's results at International Mathematical Olympiad