Abigail Jane Sellen FRS FREng FBCS 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]
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 |
Education edit
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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- ^ a b c Abigail Sellen publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Abigail Sellen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Abigail Sellen", ACM Fellows, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2017-10-07
- ^ a b "Abigail Sellen", People, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2017-10-07
- ^ a b c "Abigail Sellen", People of ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, 7 February 2017, retrieved 2017-10-07
- ^ "Professor Abigail Sellen", Diversity in our Fellowship, Royal Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2017-10-07
- ^ a b Abigail Sellen at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Reviews of The Myth of the Paperless Office: Robert Horton (2002), The American Archivist 65 (1), [1], JSTOR 40294195; Frederick E. Allen (2002), American Heritage 53 (6), [2]; J. Michael Pemberton (2002), Information Management Journal, [3]; Tom Wilson (2002), Information Research, [4]; Gloria Meynen (2003), Zeitschrift für Germanistik 13 (3): 668–670, JSTOR 23977312; Christine Reid (2003), Journal of Documentation 59 (2): 220, [5]; Jennifer Weintraub (2003), Libraries and the Academy 3 (1): 161–162, doi:10.1353/pla.2003.0023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 2011 SIGCHI AWARDS, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2017-10-07
- ^ National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 International Members, National Academy of Engineering, 6 February 2020, retrieved 2020-10-08
