Philip Kortum

Philip Kortum is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His primary interests are in the research and development of highly usable systems in the voting and mobile computing domains and in the characterization of measures of usability and usable systems. Prior to joining Rice University, Kortum worked for more than 15 years in the defense and telecommunications industries, where he researched and helped field award-winning user-centered systems....See more

Philip Kortum is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His primary interests are in the research and development of highly usable systems in the voting and mobile computing domains and in the characterization of measures of usability and usable systems. Prior to joining Rice University, Kortum worked for more than 15 years in the defense and telecommunications industries, where he researched and helped field award-winning user-centered systems. He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and conference proceedings and holds 49 U.S. patents. He received his MS from Northeastern University and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. See less