Abigail Sellen
Abigail J. Sellen is a Canadian cognitive scientist, industrial engineer, and computer scientist who works for Microsoft Research in Cambridge. She is also an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and University College London.
Sellen earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Don Norman. She has worked as a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge as well as for various corporate research laboratories including Xerox PARC, Apple Inc., and HP Labs before joining Microsoft in 2004.
With Richard H. R. Harper, Sellen wrote The Myth of the Paperless Office.
She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society. She was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2011. in 2016 she became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to human-computer interaction and the design of human-centered technology".
