Christine Andrews Paulsen, Ph.D.
Our founder, Dr. Christine Andrews Paulsen, has been practicing behavioral research since 1990. Dr. Paulsen has a B.A. in psychology from Clark University, a M.A. in Applied Social Psychology from The George Washington University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in research, evaluation, and measurement.
Over the years, Dr. Paulsen's work has spanned a wide range of fields, including health, education, and consumer products. For a sample of some recent publications, papers, and presentations, click here.
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Christopher P. Bransfield, M.S.P.C.
Chris Bransfield brings extensive experience in human factors research and design, usability and focus group testing, project management, and communication research to CEG. Working with both private and public center clients, Chris provides insight into user experience and perspective as it relates to technological and product development and enhancement. Chris holds a B.A. from Wheaton College and an M.S.P.C. in professional communication from Clark University.
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Sharon Carroll, B.B.A.
Sharon Carroll joins us as a Project Manager and User Experience Specialist with a background in project management, business analysis, and user interface design. Sharon brings operational knowledge from a variety of industries, including manufacturing, engineering and financial services, as well as project management expertise related to the user experience portion of technology-based projects. Sharon holds a B.B.A in Finance from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Certificate in Client/Server and Web Development from Clark University.
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Rae Ann Catino, A.S.
Rae Ann is the latest addition to our staff. She joins us as a Research Assistant and Study Coordinator with over ten years of experience in office management and customer relations. Rae Ann is responsible for study recruitment, coordinating study logistics, and interacting with our hundreds of potential study participants.
Our Extended Team
We also draw upon a loosely knit team of consultants who offer expertise in survey development, usability testing, web design, and graphic design.
Some of our partners include:
User Postulo India provides user research, usability testing, and user-centered design in India.
Strategic Focus Research and Consultancy Ltd. offers market research and focus groups in Hong Kong.
FirePig Partners provides Web development and Internet presence consulting.
Our mission is to use our research expertise to have a positive impact on individuals and society.
CEG was founded with the goal of helping our clients design products and technologies that are usable, accessible, and effective.
For us, it's not just about enhancing the user-friendliness of products and technologies, we want to help our clients make products that work.
We help our clients measure the extent to which they are achieving their goals, whether their goal is to teach patients the proper way to take a new prescription drug or their goal is to ensure that teachers can apply a new technology in the classroom.
Click here to learn more about the types of research participants we work with.CEG is unique and stands apart from other consultants because we take a multi-disciplinary approach to all of our projects. For our projects, we draw upon our expertise in program evaluation, research methodology, usability and human factors, education, social psychology, health services research, communications, and social marketing.