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Wendy Mackay

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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]

Education

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Mackay received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from University of California, San Diego in 1977. She received a Master of Arts in experimental psychology from Northeastern University in 1979 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management of Technological Innovation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990.[2][9] Her doctoral research was supervised by Wanda Orlikowski.

Career and research

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After graduating from Northeastern University, Mackay worked in several roles at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). In 1983, she focused formed a multimedia research group there and became a visiting scientist at MIT. At DEC, she created over 30 multimedia projects, including the first interactive video system which was titled IVIS. From 1987 to 1990 she worked on her Ph.D. at MIT and eventually worked as a senior research scientist at Xerox PARC where she published an award-winning special issue of Communications of the ACM on computer augmented environments.[10] She also worked on augmented paper interfaces and explored the integration of paper with the online world.[11] Afterward, she taught at Stanford University for two years as a visiting professor.[12]

Her scientific contributions include writing the original toolkit software for IVIS, the world's first interactive video system. She also conducted the first major study of electronic mail while at MIT.[13] Her design methods are taught in institutions around the world such as Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and University of British Columbia. Mackay has published over two hundred research articles on human-computer interaction and has served as program chair or on the program committees of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ACM Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), ACM DIS and ACM Multimedia.

Awards and honors

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Personal life

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Wendy married Michel Beaudouin-Lafon on August 11, 1993 in Avalon, California. She has two sons - Alexandre and Matthew Thomas Beaudouin-Mackay.[21]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Wendy Mackay publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Mackay, Wendy Elizabeth (1990). Users and customizable software : a co-adaptive phenomenon. mit.edu (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/14087. OCLC 60019520.
  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. ^ a b "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.
  9. ^ "Wendy Mackay's CV". lri.fr.
  10. ^ Wellner, Pierre; Mackay, Wendy; Gold, Rich (1993). "Back to the real world". Communications of the ACM. 36 (7): 24–26. doi:10.1145/159544.159555. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 21169183.
  11. ^ MacKay, Wendy E. (1999). "Is paper safer? The role of paper flight strips in air traffic control". ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 6 (4): 311–340. doi:10.1145/331490.331491. ISSN 1073-0516. S2CID 2759800.
  12. ^ https://ex-situ.lri.fr/people/mackay
  13. ^ Mackay, Wendy E. (1988). "Diversity in the use of electronic mail: a preliminary inquiry". ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 6 (4): 380–397. doi:10.1145/58566.58567. ISSN 1046-8188. S2CID 558592.
  14. ^ "2009 SIGCHI awards". sigchi.org.
  15. ^ Theophanis Tsandilas; Catherine Letondal; Wendy E. Mackay (2009). "Mus ink: Composing music through augmented drawing" (PDF). Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, MA, USA: ACM. pp. 819–828. doi:10.1145/1518701.1518827. ISBN 9781605582467. S2CID 220980066.
  16. ^ Mathieu Nancel; Julie Wagner; Emmanuel Pietriga; Olivier Chapuis; Wendy Mackay (2011). "Mid-air pan-and-zoom on wall-sized displays" (PDF). Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM. pp. 177–186. doi:10.1145/1978942.1978969. ISBN 9781450302289. S2CID 218672063.
  17. ^ "CHI'11 Best Paper Award". chi2011.org.
  18. ^ 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11
  19. ^ "Women in STEM: Professor Wendy Mackay recognised with Suffrage Science award". ex-situ.lri.fr.
  20. ^ "Wendy Mackay is awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award". Université Paris-Saclay. 2024-04-12. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
  21. ^ "Wendy Mackay's personal website". lri.fr.
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