Elizabeth F. Churchill

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Elizabeth Churchill

Elizabeth Frances Churchill (* 1962 in Calcutta , India ) is a British-American psychologist who specializes in human-computer interaction (HCI) and social computing . She is the director of user experience at Google and vice president of the ACM .

biography

Churchill, born in Calcutta, moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in her early childhood . She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Experimental Psychology and a Master of Science degree in Knowledge Systems from the University of Sussex in the UK , where she worked on soar simulations. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1993 .

Career and research

After completing her PhD , she joined the University of Nottingham as a post-doctoral student . In 1997, she moved to California , United States , to join FXPAL, where she founded and directed their social computing group. In 2004, Churchill joined the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). She joined Yahoo! in 2006 as a senior research scientist. where she founded and led the Internet Experiences Group in the Microeconomics and Social Systems Department . Her group and research was multidisciplinary, addressing the intersection of computer science , cognitive and social psychology , design science , neuroscience , analytics and anthropology . She was previously the director of human-computer interaction at eBay Research Labs in San Jose , California. She is currently the director of user experience at Google in Mountain View , CA. In 2009 she was elected Deputy Director General of ACM SIGCHI in a joint vote with Gerrit van der Veer , President of SIGCHI .

Churchill is known for her work on Embodied Conversational Agents, an area of ​​HCI that uses computer-generated embodied agents along with a gesture and facial expression model to enable face-to-face voice communication with people, and is co-editor of a book of the same name. She is also known for her work on public displays and installations. In 2011, she and Shaowen Bardzell edited a special issue of the journal on feminism and HCI at Indiana University Bloomington .

Churchill has chaired and directed the technical program at several top-level conferences and publishes regularly in high-profile academic journals and at conferences in the fields of computer science , human-computer interaction , sociology, and related fields. Her work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines around the world, including Scientific American and SFGate .

Awards and honors

Churchill was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2019 for "Contributions to Human-Computer Interaction and Service to ACM".

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2016 SIGCHI Awards. In: ACM SIGCHI. Retrieved June 5, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Churchill - Google Scholar Citations. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ ACM elects Cherri Pancake as President. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ CITRIS and the Banatao Institute announce recipients of the inaugural CITRIS Athena Awards for Women in Technology. September 28, 2016, Retrieved June 5, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Officers and Committees - SIGCHI. May 1, 2012, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Elizabeth F. Churchill, Richard M. Young: Modeling Representations of Device Knowledge in Soar . In: AISB91 . Springer London, London 1991, ISBN 978-3-540-19671-6 , pp. 247-255 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4471-1852-7_22 .
  7. ↑ About Me | Elizabeth F. Churchill. Retrieved June 5, 2020 (American English).
  8. ^ Sarah Forster-Heinzer: Models of Pedagogical Ethos . In: Against All Odds . SensePublishers, Rotterdam 2014, ISBN 978-94-6209-941-8 , pp. 19-50 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-94-6209-941-8_3 .
  9. ↑ Embodied Conversational Agents . 2000, doi : 10.7551 / mitpress / 2697.001.0001 .
  10. ↑ Embodied Conversational Agents . 2000, doi : 10.7551 / mitpress / 2697.001.0001 .
  11. ↑ Public and Situated Displays . 2003, doi : 10.1007 / 978-94-017-2813-3 .
  12. ↑ Shaowen Bardzell, Elizabeth F. Churchill: IWC Special Issue "Feminism and HCI: New Perspectives" Special Issue Editors' Introduction . In: Interacting with Computers . tape 23 , no. 5 , September 2011, p. iii-xi , doi : 10.1016 / S0953-5438 (11) 00089-0 .
  13. ↑ QUARTERLY TECHNICAL PROGRESS REPORT, JANUARY - MARCH 1966. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), October 31, 1968, doi : 10.2172 / 4571257 .
personal data
SURNAME Churchill, Elizabeth F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Churchill, Elizabeth Frances (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta , India