Abigail_Sellen

Abigail Sellen

Abigail Sellen

Computer scientist

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]

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Education

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

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

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

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    Abigail Sellen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
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    Abigail Sellen at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
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    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.
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    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.
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    Reviews of The Myth of the Paperless Office: Robert Horton (2002), The American Archivist 65 (1), , JSTOR 40294195; Frederick E. Allen (2002), American Heritage 53 (6), ; J. Michael Pemberton (2002), Information Management Journal, ; Tom Wilson (2002), Information Research, ; Gloria Meynen (2003), Zeitschrift für Germanistik 13 (3): 668–670, JSTOR 23977312; Christine Reid (2003), Journal of Documentation 59 (2): 220, ; Jennifer Weintraub (2003), Libraries and the Academy 3 (1): 161–162, doi:10.1353/pla.2003.0023.
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    "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.
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    2011 SIGCHI AWARDS, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2017-10-07
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    National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 International Members, National Academy of Engineering, 6 February 2020, retrieved 2020-10-08
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