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n CHI ACADEMY
The CHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have
made extensive contributions to the practice and study of HCI and
who have led the shaping of the field.
This year we have elected seven new Academy members. In
alphabetical order, they are:
Ben Bederson
Ben Bederson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Maryland and past Director of the Human-Computer Interaction
Laboratory. Ben is well known for his pioneering work in zoomable
user interfaces and visualization techniques for a variety of devices.
Ben has a strong record of publications and core achievements in
software toolkits and applications. He has consistently applied his
research to social concerns including electronic voting systems and
technologies for children. He won the SIGCHI social impact award
as well as three Microsoft and four Google research awards. Ben has
also pursued technical transfer of his research to industry as cofounder
and chief scientist of Zumobi, a startup to commercialize
mobile media, and most notably as co-founder and technical
director of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation
(ICDL at www.childrenslibrary.org), a library of free online children’s
books from around the world. ICDL has won the American Library
Association President's 2010 Award for International Library
Innovation.
Steve Benford
Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing and cofounded
the Mixed Reality Laboratory at The University of
Nottingham in the UK, where he researches interactive technologies
for the creative industries. Steve's contributions range from theory
to technical development to participatory design and artistic
practice. His early contributions include a classic model of
interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments, as well as work on
embodiment, time and persistence in virtual worlds. Later, his
interests encompassed mixed reality and ubicomp, which merged
with a longstanding interest in technologies for art and
performance. For more than ten years now, Steve has worked with
artists, ethnographers and scholars from the arts and humanities to
create, tour and study a series of mixed reality performances. In
addition to leading the technical development of these works,
ethnographic studies of these and related pieces have led Steve to
document the challenges of supporting live interactive experiences,
ultimately informing theoretical work on ambiguity, spectator
interfaces, and trajectories. Steve has published over 250 academic
papers (receiving best CHI paper awards in 2005, 2009 and 2011).
His artistic collaborations have led to the award of the 2003 Prix Ars
Electronica for Interactive Art, the Nokia 2007 Mindtrek award for
innovative applications of ubiquitous computing, and four British
Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominations.
Hugh Dubberly
SIGCHI 2012 Awards
Hugh Dubberly is a design planner and teacher. He graduated from
Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in graphic design and
earned an MFA in graphic design from Yale. He has deep roots in
typography. At Apple Computer in the late 80s and early 90s, Hugh
managed cross-functional design teams and later managed creative
services for the entire company. While at Apple, he co-created a
technology-forecast film called “Knowledge Navigator,” that
presaged the appearance of the Internet in a portable digital device.
While at Apple, he served at Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena as the first and founding chairman of the computer
graphics department. Intrigued by what the publishing industry
would look like on the Internet, he next became Director of Interface
Design for Times Mirror. This led him to Netscape where he became
Vice President of Design and managed groups responsible for the
design, engineering, and production of Netscape’s Web portal. In
2000, Hugh co-founded Dubberly Design Office, putting people at
the center of design of a broad spectrum of products for many
influential companies. He writes the "Modeling" column for
interactions magazine. Hugh's Concept Maps are a powerful
articulation and teaching tool for designing and explaining complex
ideas and products.
Carl Gutwin
Carl Gutwin is Professor of Computer Science and director of the
Human-Computer Interaction lab at the University of Saskatchewan,
and is a past holder of a Canada Research Chair in Next-Generation
Groupware. He received his PhD in 1997 from the University of
Calgary, where he developed the idea and nuances of workspace
awareness as a design factor for distributed groupware systems. Dr.
Gutwin has varied research interests in Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work and Human-Computer Interaction, including
group awareness, groupware usability, interaction techniques,
human performance modeling, and information visualization. His
work spans the breadth of HCI, and his contributions range from
hard-core technical aspects of systems architectures, to the design
and implementation of interaction techniques, to social theory as
applied to design. He and his students and collaborators have
published more than 150 papers in CSCW and HCI, and have
received several best paper and honorable mention awards. Dr.
Gutwin was papers co-chair for CHI 2011 and general co-chair of
CSCW 2010. He has also served on program committees for CHI,
CSCW, UIST, Group, ECSCW, GI, and several other conferences.
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