Elizabeth F. Churchill

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Elizabeth Churchill
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Churchill in 2008
Born
Elizabeth Frances Churchill

Calcutta, India
Nationality British
Citizenship American
Alma mater University of Sussex (BSc, MSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for Feminism
Embodied Conversational Agents
Ubiquitous Computing
Design Systems
Awards ACM Fellow (2019)
CHI Academy (2016) [1]
Scientific career
Fields Design
Human computer interaction
Psychology
Social media [2]
Institutions Google
eBay
Yahoo
PARC
FXPAL
University of Nottingham
Thesis Models of models : cognitive, computational and empirical investigations of learning a device  (1993)
Doctoral advisor Richard Young[ citation needed ]
Thomas Green[ citation needed ]
Other academic advisors Thomas P. Moran
Website elizabethchurchill.com

Elizabeth Frances Churchill is a British American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI) and social computing. [2] She is a Director of User Experience at Google. She has held a number of positions in the ACM including Secretary Treasurer from 2016 to 2018, and Executive Vice President from 2018 to 2020. [3] [4] [5]

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Education and early life

Churchill was born in Calcutta, India and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in her early childhood. She gained a Bachelor of Science degree in Experimental Psychology and a Master of Science in Knowledge Based Systems from Sussex University in the United Kingdom where she worked on Soar simulations. [6] She completed her PhD in 1993 at the University of Cambridge. [7] [8]

Career and research

After her PhD she joined University of Nottingham as a postdoctoral researcher. [9] In 1997, she moved to California, United States to join FXPAL where she formed and led their Social Computing Group. In 2004, Churchill joined Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). She joined Yahoo! in 2006 as a principal research scientist, where she formed and led the Internet Experiences Group in the Microeconomics and Social Systems division of Yahoo! Labs (which is now Yahoo! Research). Her group and research was multidisciplinary, addressing the intersection of computer science, cognitive and social psychology, design science, neuroscience, analytics, and anthropology. She was previously Director of Human Computer Interaction for eBay Research Labs in San Jose, CA. Currently, she is a Director of User Experience at Google in Mountain View, CA. In 2009, she was elected as the Executive Vice President of ACM SIGCHI on a joint ballot with Gerrit van der Veer, SIGCHI's president.

Churchill is known for her work on Embodied Conversational Agents and co-edited a book [10] of the same name, an area of HCI which uses computer generated embodied agents together with a model of gesture and facial expression to enable face-to-face speech communication with people. She is also known for her work on collaborative virtual environments, [11] and on public displays and installations. [12] In 2011, she co-edited a special journal issue on Feminism and HCI [13] with Shaowen Bardzell at Indiana University Bloomington. Her most recent work focuses on design systems and on designer and developer tooling.

Churchill has chaired and run the technical program in several top conferences and publishes regularly in top-tier academic journals and conferences in computer science, human-computer interaction, sociology, and related fields. Her work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines around the world including Scientific American [14] and SFGate. [15]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Churchill was awarded the Athena Award for Executive Leadership Award from the University of California's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute. [16] Churchill was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2019 for "contributions to human-computer interaction and service to the ACM" . [17] She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex in the UK (2018), [18] and from Stockholm University in Sweden (2019) for sustained contributions to the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Social Computing. [19] In 2023, Churchill received SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award. [20]

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References

  1. ↑ "CHI Academy Member". SIGCHI. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 Elizabeth F. Churchill publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. ↑ "ACM Elects Cherri Pancake as President".
  4. ↑ "Citris Athena Award for Executive Leadership". CITRUS and the Banatao Institute. 28 September 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  5. ↑ ACM SIGCHI Officers and Committees
  6. ↑ Churchill, E.F.; Young, R.M. (1991). "Modelling Representations of Device Knowledge in Soar". In Steels, Luc; Smith, Barbara (eds.). Proceedings of AISB '91. Springer-Verlag.
  7. ↑ Churchill, Elizabeth Frances (1993). Models of models : cognitive, computational and empirical investigations of learning a device. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC   855137739. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.321549.
  8. ↑ "People of ACM - Elizabeth Churchill". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  9. ↑ Bealing, Jacqui. "Elizabeth Churchill". The University of Sussex. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  10. ↑ Cassell, J., Sullivan J., Prevost, S., Churchill, E. F. (2000). Embodied Conversational Agents. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Churchill, E.F.; Snowdon, D.; Munro, A.. (2001). Collaborative virtual environments. Springer.
  12. ↑ O'Hara, K.; Perry, M.; Churchill, E.F.; Russell, D. (2003). Public and Situated Displays. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  13. ↑ Bardzell, Shaowen; Churchill, Elizabeth F. (September 2011). "Feminism and HCI: New Perspectives". Interacting with Computers. 23 (5). doi:10.1016/S0953-5438(11)00089-0. S2CID   35180347.
  14. ↑ Greenemeier, Larry (September 29, 2010). "Sentiment-sensing software could aid in weeding hostile online comments". Scientific American. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  15. ↑ Temple, James (January 11, 2010). "Social science meets computer science at Yahoo". SF Gate. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  16. ↑ "Announce inaugural CITRIS Athena Awards for Women in Tech". 28 September 2016.
  17. ↑ "Elizabeth Frances Churchill".
  18. ↑ "Elizabeth Churchill".
  19. ↑ "Elizabeth Churchill appointed Honorary Doctor at Stockholm University - DSV, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences - Stockholm University".
  20. ↑ Kumar, Neha (14 February 2023). "SIGCHI AWARDS 2023". Archived from the original on 2023-02-14. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
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