Ann Blandford

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Ann Blandford
FHEA
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Alma mater
Awards Suffrage Science award (2016)
Scientific career
Fields Human–Computer Interaction
Human factors
Patient safety
Healthcare
Information interaction [1]
Institutions University College London
Middlesex University
Thesis Design, decisions and dialogue  (1991)
Doctoral advisor Eileen Scanlon
Mark Elsom-Cook [2]
Website uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/ann-blandford OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Ann Blandford FHEA is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at University College London (UCL). [3] [1] [4] She serves as deputy director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. [5] Her research focuses on behaviour change, well-being, and human errors in the field of healthcare. [6] [7]

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Education

Blandford graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She worked as a software engineer before pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence (AI) and education at the Open University supervised by Eileen Scanlon and Mark Elsom-Cook. [2] [7]

Career and research

Blandford previously served as professor at the interaction design centre at Middlesex University from 1995 to 2001.[ citation needed ]

Blandford has served as professor in human-computer interaction at UCL since 2002, where her research has involved studies of serendipity, leading to a proposal for a new definition of the phenomenon. [8] With Stephann Makri she worked to further refine their classification of "serendipitous occurrences". [9] Her current[ when? ] work covers HCI research in digital health, including challenges of interdisciplinarity. [10]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Blandford became one of the first 12 women to receive a Suffrage Science award for contributions to the field of maths and computing. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 Ann Blandford publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 Blandford, Ann (1991). Design, decisions and dialogue. open.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Open University. doi:10.21954/ou.ro.0000dfe4. OCLC   556435328. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.292860.
  3. ↑ Ann Blandford at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. ↑ Anne Blandford's ORCID   0000-0002-3198-7122
  5. ↑ "Ann Blandford". uclic.ucl.ac.uk. UCL Interaction Centre.
  6. ↑ "Ann Blandford". ucl.ac.uk. UCL Psychology and Language Sciences. January 29, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  7. 1 2 "Ann Blandford". The Interaction Design Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Serendipity is more than a 'happy accident', researchers say". phys.org. October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  9. ↑ Andrew, Liam (July 16, 2014). "I'm feeling lucky: Can algorithms better engineer serendipity in research — or in journalism?". niemanlab.org. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ Blandford, Ann; Gibbs, Jo; Newhouse, Nikki; Perski, Olga; Singh, Aneesha; Murray, Elizabeth (2018). "Seven lessons for interdisciplinary research on interactive digital health interventions". Digital Health. 4. doi:10.1177/2055207618770325. PMC   6016567 . PMID   29942629.
  11. ↑ "Celebrating women in science on Ada Lovelace Day 2016". suffragescience.org. May 6, 2016. Archived from the original on October 3, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
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