Hi Don,
If not Daniel Kahneman, or rather, as well as Kahneman, how
about John Maeda, currently President of the Rhode Island
School of Design?
Maeda, you'll know, is not a behavioural sciences person, more
a design person who likes to understand people's behaviour
(sort of). He does make a lots of noise, so may be he's well
enough known to the industry types--as President of RISD he
should know lots of these kinds of people. And I'd guess he
can debate well.
Tim
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On Dec 21, 2012, at 22:24 , Don Norman wrote:
> I'd like to thank everyone for your suggestions.
>
> Many of the names are people who are good friends of mine and who are
> indeed distinguished, but who we do not believe fulfill the criteria of
> being widely known outside of their disciplines.
>
> A good example is Bruno Latour, a good friend (and even a skiing companion
> of my wife (I don't ski)). Bruno is wonderful, funny, and deep.
> I've known him since the 1980s. But wonderful though he might be, the
> average CEO or CxO of a company (think HP, Sony, LG, Samsung, Ford,
> Microsoft, Apple, google, is not apt to have heard of him. (Well, Larry
> from google might have from courses with Winograd).
>
> The most promising name was Danny Kahneman, someone I have known since the
> 1960s. He, his wife, and I all used to work in the same field of human
> attention. Danny has already agreed to give a keynote at the planned
> conference so although i suggested him, the sponsor wanted at least one
> other person.
>
> Amanda asked for a better description of what I meant by "industry." Any
> company doing work where they do (or ought to) use the talents of people
> trained in the behavioral, cognitive, or social sciences. Examples of
> companies that do this well are Boeing and Airbus, consumer computer
> companies, the US military (others might as well, but I am only familiar
> with the US on this topic), a few automobile companies (Ford and BMW are
> the two i have worked with on this topic), and so on.
>
> Keith asked whether I was such a candidate. Probably, but that is the
> point. The goal is for this person to engage in a public discussion with
> me. So I am already on the program: we need someone with a lot more
> credibility and external visibility to join me. (We do NOT want a keynote
> -- we want a discussion of the issues.)
>
> Thanks everyone
>
> That's an excellent list of names. Problem with most is that they are well
> known to academics but not outside of academia.
>
> Don
>
>
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