• Employed at Honeywell designing interfaces for military avionics
• Worked at MCC – America’s 5^th generation computer consortium
• Moved to Apple Computer to become the manager of the Human Interface Group for nearly eight years. She lead a number of major projects and initiated and continues to oversee Apple’s International Interface Design Project.
• Recently, she joined Interval Research Corporation to lead projects in musical development
• In the past, her research interests were on the application of technologies such as speech recognition and generation, intelligent systems, tactile controllers and head-mounted systems.
• Currently focusing on the design of media SoundScapes that can be shared across the internet.

• Organized Apple’s International Interface Design Project
• World-wide invited lecturer
• Leading a group to explore interactive software and hardware for music creation
• While at Apple, wrote "The Art of Human Computer Interface and Design". Unforunately, no bibliographic information was included. (There is a copy in the Georgia Tech Library).
• Recently spoke here at Georgia Tech.

http://www.weyrich.com/book_reviews/art_human_computer.html

http://www.awl-he.com/titles/13604.html

Joy Mountford’s book The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design is what Barnes and Noble say "A compilation of ideas, experiences, and opinions from key thinkers in the computer industry, providing fascinating reading for all those interested in the relationship between computers and people."

http://pcd.stanford.edu/pcd-archives/pcd-seminar/1994-1995/0022.html

Joy Mountford speaks at Stanford. Subject: "Can Industry and Academia Work Together?"

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/npuc1998/mountford/mountford.html

"New Paradigms for Using Computers" – Joy Mountford gives a small presentation.

http://www.acm.org:82/sigs/sigchi/chi95/Roster/mountford.html

A picture of Joy Mountford from the CHI ’95 conference where she spoke about the interrelation of industry and academia.

http://www.lastsaturdays.com/20_la.html

This is a site dedicated to bringing together good companies that had her speak at one of their conventions.

http://www.feedmag.com/96.09dialog/96.09dialog1.html - mountford

"Beyond the Desktop": A nice section about WIMP design and her opinions on how it should be done.

http://home.luna.nl/~ianus/prespict.html

Excellent pictures of Joy at the Apple Interface Design Competition. See above