Abigail Sellen

Abigail J. Sellen FREng FBCS is a Canadian[1] cognitive scientist, industrial engineer, and computer scientist who works for Microsoft Research in Cambridge.[2][3] She is also an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and University College London.[4]

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. She has worked as a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge as well as for various corporate research laboratories including Xerox PARC, Apple Inc., and HP Labs before joining Microsoft in 2004.[2]

With Richard H. R. Harper, Sellen wrote The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press, 2001).[5]

She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society.[3] She was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2011.[6] in 2016 she became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to human-computer interaction and the design of human-centered technology".[1][3] 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".[7]

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  6. 2011 SIGCHI AWARDS, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2017-10-07
  7. National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 International Members, National Academy of Engineering, February 6, 2020, retrieved 2020-10-08
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