Ann Blandord, University College London (UK)
An introduction to Human Factors for Health Technologies
Ann Blandford is Professor of Human Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. She led the development of the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) (2004-2011), which is now a leading research centred in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). She has a first degree in Maths (from Cambridge) and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (from the Open University). She started her career in industry, as a software engineer, but soon moved back into academia, where she developed a focus on the use and usability of computer systems.
Professor Blandford’s principal interest is in how we can design technologies that empower people, taking into account the situations in which people find themselves, what motivates them, and how they think. This includes designing systems to support people in making sense of complex information, developing strategies to work more effectively (e.g., minimising errors), and changing their behaviour. Having worked in a variety of domains in the past, including law, journalism, humanities and healthcare, she is now focusing attention on healthcare technologies, to improve patient safety and to empower people managing their own health and wellbeing.
Ann leads research projects on safety-critical systems and on interacting with information, with a focus on modelling situated interactions, and on the design and use of interactive devices and systems in healthcare. She leads an EPSRC Programme Grant, CHI+MED, on Human Computer Interaction for Medical Devices and an NIHR project, ECLIPSE, on the design and use of infusion devices for medication administration. She has over 180 publications in international, peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Other recent publications include a Synthesis lecture on Interacting with Information and an Interaction-Design.org encyclopaedia chapter on Semi-Structured Qualitative Studies.
Professor Blandford has served as an Associate Chair for the ACM CHI conference three times, on the steering committee of the ACM EICS conference (2009-2011), and as a Senior Programme Committee Member for ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (2012). She has chaired workshops and presented tutorials at CHI. She has been Chair of the BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertations Committee (2010 & 2011) and technical programme chair for IHM-HCI 2001, HCI 2006, DSVIS 2006 and NordiCHI2010. She chaired AISB (1997-1999), and was a member of the EPSRC ICT Strategic Advisory Team (2004-2008). She is a Fellow of the BCS, a Member of ACM, and a Chartered Engineer.
Scott MacKenzie, York University (Canada)
Perspectives on HCI Research: From Ideas to Products
Scott MacKenzie’s research is in human-computer interaction with an emphasis on human performance measurement and modeling, experimental methods and evaluation, interaction devices and techniques, text entry, touch-based input, language modeling, accessible computing, gaming, and mobile computing. He has more than 170 peer-reviewed publications in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (including more than 30 from the ACM’s annual SIGCHI conference) and has given numerous invited talks over the past 25 years. In 2015, he was elected into the ACM SIGCHI Academy. That same year he was the recipient of the Canadian Human-Computer Communication Society’s (CHCCS) Achievement Award. Since 1999, he has been Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at York University, Canada.
Home page: https://www.yorku.ca/mack/
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