Judith Gregory is responsible for the ‘Understanding Users’ core area and is Co-coordinator of the Doctor of Philosophy in Design program. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Gregory is a specialist in user-centered design research and qualitative research methodologies. She is a Co-Principal Investigator in ‘Rethinking Health,’ ID’s healthcare initiative that brings together systems analysis, human-centered design research, and design planning, towards the challenges of ‘how to fix the US healthcare system.’ She is a Co-PI in the Design for the Base of the Pyramid research area. Dr. Gregory has contributed to a wide range of multi-disciplinary projects in design of health information systems and technology design, including acting as Co-PI in the Electronic Health Record iterative prototyping project of Kaiser Permanente (1993-98). Before joining the ID faculty in 2005, Dr. Gregory was Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway and Professor II in the Oslo School of Architecture & Design (2001-05). During that time, she was also a core faculty in the dual International MSc-Informatics and Master in Public Health programs that are ongoing capacity-building collaborations between the medical and computer science faculties of the University of Oslo and universities and Ministries of Health in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia and India in relation to the open source Health Information Systems Project in developing countries. Dr. Gregory has more than twenty-five years experience in a variety of research settings and networks. She is active in international design research, participatory design, health informatics, science & technology studies and activity theory conferences.

Recent activities:
Judith and Kei Sato will serve on the Organizing Committee for the peer-reviewed 7th International Design & Emotions Conference 2010, to be held in Chicago in autumn 2010. Judith was awarded an Honorary Professorship in Human-Centered Informatics at Aalborg University for which she gave her Inaugural Lecture in March 2009. In October 2008, she gave a keynote lecture on 'Social Responsibility of Design and Business' in the Diseño Interaction Design Latin American Regional Conference, ICESI, Cali, Colombia. Judith's Wellness Experience Research team was invited to give a Webinar for the DOSSIA Consortium and presented to the Mayo Clinic and SPARC Program. In March 2008, she gave an invited lecture 'Reciprocal Understanding Across Contexts: Health Informatics & Design' for the Department of BioMedical Informatics, Columbia University, NY. Judith was co-organizer of the 'participART' participatory art works for the Participatory Design Conference 2009, in which Hugh Musick participated.

Judith recently completed two book chapters that will be published in 2009: Gregory, 'A Complex Model for International and Inter-Cultural Collaboration in Health Information Systems Design, in Poggenpohl, S. and Sato, K. (eds.), Design Integrations: Research and Collaboration. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books; and Igira and Gregory, 'Cultural Historical Activity Theory as a Framework for Information Systems Research' in Divedi, Y.K., Lai, B., Williams, M.D., Schneberger, S.L and Wade, M. (eds.), Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems, IGI Global Publishing. Judith was co-editor for a double special issue of Co-Design on 'Design Participation(s)', Binder, Brandt & Gregory (eds.). 4(1) and 4(2), March and June 2008.

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