Dr. James R. (Jim) Lewis is a senior human factors engineer (at IBM since 1981) with a current focus on the design and evaluation of speech applications and is the author of Practical Speech User Interface Design. He is a Certified Human Factors Professional with a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (Psycholinguistics), an M.A. in Engineering Psychology, and an M.M. in Music Theory and Composition.

Jim is an internationally recognized expert in usability testing and measurement, contributing (by invitation) the chapter on usability testing for the 3rd and 4th editions of the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics and presenting tutorials on usability testing and metrics at various professional conferences. 

Jim is an IBM Master Inventor with 77 patents issued to date by the US Patent Office. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction and the Journal of Usability Studies, and is on the scientific advisory board of the Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE).

He is a member of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the American Psychological Association (APA), and is a 5th degree black belt and certified instructor with the American Taekwondo Association (ATA).