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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 | |
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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 |
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]
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