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SIGCHI 2012 Awards
Joy Mountford
S. Joy Mountford is currently a consultant to eBay on the future of
ecommerce. Through her long career in human-computer
interaction she has been an internationally recognized leader in the
field. She has designed and led teams designing a wide variety of
systems. She has led teams designing and developing a wide
variety of computer systems. She was a VP of User Experience
Design at Yahoo!, a VP of Digital User Experience and Design at
Barnes & Noble and an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium in San
Francisco, CA. She was a senior project lead at Interval Research,
and continues to consult to a variety of companies and to present
innovative talks world-wide. She headed the acclaimed Human
Interface Group at Apple in the late '80s and '90s, beginning her
career as a designer at Honeywell and a project leader in the
Interface Research Group at Microelectronics Computer
Consortium (MCC). Her impact continues through the International
Design Expo, which she created over 20 years ago to challenge the
next generation of interdisciplinary graduates.
Alan Newell
Alan Newell, Emeritus Professor at Dundee University, has spent over
forty years conducting HCI research, primarily into supporting elderly
and disabled people. He founded and headed the University’s School
of Computing, and later set up within it the Queen Mother Research
Centre, now one of the largest academic groups in the world
researching digital systems for older and disabled people. His team
developed stenograph transcription systems and television subtitling
systems for the deaf and hearing-impaired, and a range of
communication systems for non-speaking people. More recently the
team has investigated techniques for use in studying older people,
including those with dementia, and for developing systems to
support them. Alan pioneered the use of Interactive Professional
Theatre for gathering requirements and increasing awareness of this
field. Since then he has made presentations of Interactive Theatre
events at a number of international conferences, showing how this
technique addresses the challenges that older people face with
technology. He has published widely, and has given numerous
keynote lectures at conferences in Europe, North America and Japan,
including InterCHI’93 and ASSETS 2002. Jointly with colleagues, he
received best paper awards at the IEEE International Conference on
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, and at the ACM Conference on
Assistive Technologies. In his recent book, Design and the Digital
Divide, he describes his research and the insights he has gained from
it. He was a Deputy Principal of Dundee University between 1992 and
1995. He is a Member of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of
the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech
and Language Therapy. He was named ACM Fellow in 2006 for his
contribution to computer-based systems for people with disabilities,
and was awarded the SIGCHI Social Impact Award in 2011.
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Yvonne Rogers
Yvonne Rogers is a professor of Interaction Design and director of the
Interaction Centre at University College London (UCLIC), UK.
Yvonne’s career spans the UK and US; before joining UCL she was a
professor at the Open University (UK), Indiana University (US), and
Sussex University (UK). She has also been a Visiting Professor at
Stanford, Apple, Queensland University and University of California –
San Diego. She is known for her wide range of contributions to HCI,
beginning with her PhD work on iconic interfaces, to her most recent
work on public displays and behavioral change. Her research focuses
on augmenting and extending everyday learning and work activities
with a diversity of interactive and novel technologies. She has
developed several influential theoretical frameworks in HCI, including
external cognition and distributed cognition. She is also known for
promoting a visionary research agenda of user engagement in
ubiquitous computing. She was one of the principal investigators on
the UK Equator project (2000-2007), where she pioneered and
experimented with ubiquitous learning. Yvonne loves writing and is
one of the authors of the bestselling textbook, Interaction Design;
Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, and more recently, Being
Human: Human Computer Interaction in the Year 2020. She has
served on numerous conference committees and advisory boards,
and was recently elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Congratulations to this year’s Academy inductees.
n SIGCHI LIFETIME RESEARCH AWARD
Along with the Lifetime Practice Award, this is the most prestigious
award SIGCHI gives. The criteria for achievement are the same as
for the CHI Academy, only more so.
This year we present the Lifetime Research Award to:
Dan Olsen
Dan Olsen Jr. is a Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young
University and was the first director of the CMU Human-Computer
Interaction Institute at CMU. He is one of the earliest and most
influential researchers in the user interface software domain. His first
contributions were in using formal language techniques (such as finite
state machines and Backus-Naur Form) to specify the syntactic
structure of a user interface. He has published three books on user
interface software: Building Interactive Systems: Principles for Human-
Computer Interaction, Developing User Interfaces, and User Interface
Management Systems: Models and Algorithms. His 1988 MIKE system
was an early and influential system for automatically generating a user
interface from semantic specifications. Dan has continued to make
important research contributions and novel systems in a wide variety
of areas, from CSCW to Interactive Machine Learning, and developing
Metrics and Principles for Human-Robot Interaction. Dan has also
received CHI's Lifetime Service Award for his many years of service on
behalf of the SIGCHI community. He was the founding editor of
TOCHI, and played a key role in establishing the UIST conference and
in making it one of the most successful SIGCHI conferences.