Alan Newell (English computer scientist)

This article is about the Scottish human-computer interaction scientist. For the American human-computer interaction scientist, see Allen Newell.

Alan Newell is an emeritus professor at Dundee University who has a long history of human-computer interaction research, with a focus on supporting the elderly and people with disabilities. He is also the founder of the School of computing at Dundee University, where he established one of the world's largest academic groups dedicated to researching and improving digital systems for the elderly and people with disabilities, the Queen Mother Research Centre.^[1]

Alan Newell
Alma mater	University of Birmingham (Ph.D. & B.S.)
Known for	HCI research for the elderly and people with disabilities
Awards	CHI Social Impact Award (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Human–computer interaction

He was involved in some of the early development of closed captioning in the UK.^[2]