Abigail Sellen

Abigail Sellen FRS FREng FBCS
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]

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]

References

1. Abigail Sellen publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. Abigail Sellen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. "Abigail Sellen", ACM Fellows, Association for Computing Machinery , retrieved 2017-10-07
4. "Abigail Sellen", People, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2017-10-07
5. "Abigail Sellen", People of ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, 7 February 2017, retrieved 2017-10-07
6. "Professor Abigail Sellen", Diversity in our Fellowship, Royal Academy of Engineering , retrieved 2017-10-07
7. Abigail Sellen at DBLP Bibliography Server
8. O'Hara, Kenton; Sellen, Abigail (1997). "A comparison of reading paper and on-line documents". Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems. pp. 335–342. doi:10.1145/258549.258787. ISBN   0897918029. S2CID   11886185.
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.
10. Reviews of The Myth of the Paperless Office: Robert Horton (2002), The American Archivist 65 (1), , JSTOR   40294195; Frederick E. Allen (2002), American Heritage 53 (6), ; J. Michael Pemberton (2002), Information Management Journal, ; Tom Wilson (2002), Information Research, ; Gloria Meynen (2003), Zeitschrift für Germanistik 13 (3): 668–670, JSTOR   23977312; Christine Reid (2003), Journal of Documentation 59 (2): 220, ; Jennifer Weintraub (2003), Libraries and the Academy 3 (1): 161–162, doi:10.1353/pla.2003.0023.
11. "Royal Society elects outstanding new Fellows and Foreign Members". The Royal Society. 6 May 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
12. 2011 SIGCHI AWARDS, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2017-10-07
13. National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 International Members, National Academy of Engineering, 6 February 2020, retrieved 2020-10-08