Wendy Mackay

Wendy Mackay
Wendy Mackay in 2014
Born
Wendy Elizabeth Mackay

(1956-05-25) May 25, 1956 (age 68)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CitizenshipUnited States, Canada[citation needed]
Alma mater
Spouse
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(m. 1993)​
Awards
  • ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsHuman computer interaction[1]
Institutions
ThesisUsers and customizable software : a co-adaptive phenomenon (1990)
Doctoral advisorWanda Orlikowski[2]
Websiteex-situ.lri.fr/people/mackay Edit this at Wikidata

Wendy Elizabeth Mackay (born on (1956-05-25)May 25, 1956) is a Canadian researcher specializing in human-computer interaction.[1][3] She has served in all of the roles on the SIGCHI committee, including Chair. She is a member of the CHI Academy and a recipient of a European Research Council Advanced grant.[4][5] She has been a visiting professor in Stanford University between 2010 and 2012, and received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2014.[6]

She leads research at Exsitu, while serving as research director with INRIA Saclay in France. Her research investigates of human computer interaction (HCI)[1] and aims to develop and to facilitate the interfaces that provide users with the tools needed to accomplish the task at hand.[7][8]

  1. ^ a b c Wendy Mackay publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference phd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Wendy Mackay at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ "European Research Council Advanced grants". erc.europa.eu. 30 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Creating Co-Adaptive Human-Computer Partnerships". cordis.europa.eu.
  6. ^ "2014 SIGCHI Awards". sigchi.org.
  7. ^ Hutchinson, Hilary; Hansen, Heiko; Roussel, Nicolas; Eiderbäck, Björn; Mackay, Wendy; Westerlund, Bo; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Druin, Allison; Plaisant, Catherine; Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel; Conversy, Stéphane; Evans, Helen (2003). Technology probes. CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. p. 17. doi:10.1145/642611.642616.
  8. ^ Mackay, Wendy E. (1991). Triggers and barriers to customizing software. CHI '91: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 153–160. doi:10.1145/108844.108867.