Arnold M. Lund

Arnold (Arnie) Lund, PhD had been a Professor of Practice at the University of Washington, Bothell, in the School of STEM Computing & Software Systems Division, and has recently started a new stage of life running a photography business and serving as VP of the Edmonds-South Snohomish County Historical Society and the Edmonds Museum. His focus areas for much of his technology career were artificial intelligence systems, adaptive and natural user interfaces, and interactive media design. As a photographer, he loves photographs that tell stories. He received his BA in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, with an emphasis on philosophy and psychology, and attended seminary at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He earned his MA in Experimental Psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and then returned to Chicago for his PhD in Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory from Northwestern University. He began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Arnie then moved to Ameritech in Chicago to help build their science and technology organization as a Senior Director of Human Factors and Emerging Technologies. He and his family continued their migration to US West Advanced Technologies, and during the dot-com bubble, he joined the new Sapient office in Denver, Colorado. The next stop was as a Director of User Experience at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Eventually, Arnie joined GE Global Research at its new software center in the San Francisco Bay Area. He became the Technology Leader for two labs working on a vision of a fully accessible, intelligent, and adaptive digital world. Finally, he moved back to Seattle to manage user research for Amazon’s Alexa product, before ending up as a professor at the University of Washington. In his latest career, his focus is on history and photography. He has received roughly thirty patents; and has published more than eighty articles on popular culture, human-computer interaction, and management topics. He has written chapters in various books, and in 2011 published User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams. He wrote two books on the history of the concepts of the soul and the afterlife, and his most recent book is a collection of photos and history called Edmonds Then and Now: 1876 to 2023. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery SIGCHI’s Academy and is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.