Abigail Sellen

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Abigail Sellen
Born
Abigail Jane Sellen
Alma mater University of Toronto (MSc)
University of California, San Diego (PhD)
Awards ACM Fellow (2016)
CHI Academy (2011)
Scientific career
Fields Human–computer interaction [1]
Institutions Microsoft Research
University of Cambridge
University College London
Xerox PARC
Apple Inc.
HP Labs
Thesis Mechanisms of human error and human error detection  (1990)
Academic advisors Don Norman [2]
Website www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/asellen/

Abigail Jane Sellen is a Canadian [3] cognitive scientist, industrial engineer, and computer scientist who works for Microsoft Research in Cambridge. [4] [5] She is also an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and University College London. [6]

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Education

Sellen earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Don Norman. [2]

Career and research

Sellen's research investigates human–computer interaction (HCI). [1] [7] [8] [9] She has worked as a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge [ when? ] as well as for various corporate research laboratories including Xerox PARC, Apple Inc., and HP Labs before joining Microsoft in 2004. [4]

With Richard H. R. Harper, Sellen wrote The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press, 2001). [1] [7] [10]

Awards and honours

She is a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), [11] the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and the British Computer Society. [5] She was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2011. [12] In 2016 she became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "for contributions to human-computer interaction and the design of human-centered technology". [3] [5] She was elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020, for "contributions that ensure consideration of human capabilities in the design of computer systems". [13]

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  9. Perry, Mark; O'hara, Kenton; Sellen, Abigail; Brown, Barry; Harper, Richard (2001). "Dealing with mobility". ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 8 (4): 323–347. doi:10.1145/504704.504707. ISSN   1073-0516. S2CID   15378170.
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