Shuli Gilutz, Ph.D., specializes in user research, assessment, and design of interactive environments for children. She works both in industry and academia in designing, managing, producing, teaching, and conducting research, in a variety of user experience (UX) settings, as well as strategic consulting for development of children’s digital interfaces.
In 2002 Dr. Gilutz co-authored the first report on Children’s Web Usability with Jakob Nielsen at the NN/g, and in 2012 she founded the Child-Computer Interaction research FB group of 850 professionals world-wide. Dr. Gilutz works to combine research and practice with startups designing digital experiences for kids, families, and learning, both at Google Launchpad and MindCET accelerators.
Dr. Gilutz is currently a researcher at The Knowledge Technology Lab at the School of Education, at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and an instructor both at TAU and IDC Herzliya’s School of Communications. She earned a BA in Psychology and the Multidisciplinary Program of the Arts, from Tel-Aviv University, an MA from Stanford University’s Learning, Design and Technology program, and a PhD in Educational Psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College.