I program user interfaces on touch screen remote controls for audio/video installations but I'm having trouble defining my profession.

Am I an Automatist? Close... OED Draft '07 says:
automatism:
1. The quality of being automatic, or of acting mechanically only; involuntary action. Hence, the doctrine attributing this quality to animals.

Much of what I do is automatic but it requires user intervention to begin the program. Perhaps a modifier?

Interaction Automatist almost fits...

Can you offer any ideas?
Cordially,
Jonathan

Your job may be part of a trend, currently nameless, in which a malign and unconscious force enslaves us to its own ends. It might be described as a form of widespread, largely mechanical automatomism


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Automatist sounds too much to me like you are the one acting on autopilot; (cf. somnambulist for a sleep walker).

What about Automation Engineer or similar if you want to include the "automaton" and "automation" idea?

I would call you a User Interface Designer.

heuristic evaluator (or somesuch)

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Originally posted by Seanahan:
I would call you a User Interface Designer.

How banal! It is accurate, however.

I suppose that I'm looking for something with a more distinct scientific and antique slant but without too much pomposity viz Interactivity Programmist or Operational Interactionist.

I like where you're heading, tsuwm. Great thinking!

"Ergonomic Logician" seems to work quite nicely.

ergonomic for the study of people in a working environment plus logician for "a writer on logic". Does that sound too stupid?

How about ergonomist? Or human factotum from human factors?

How about a series of a initials after your name-- the sort of acronymic qualifiers preferred by physicians? For example:

Duck A. Types
Remote-to-Touch I.A.D., B.F.

where I.A.D. = Interfacial Analysis & Design,
and B.F. = Button Factotem