Abigail Sellen | |
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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 |
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]
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]
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]
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]