Mark Chignell


Mark H. Chignell is a Canadian academic specialising in usability and information engineering, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Toronto.

Academic career

After a 1980 PhD titled 'Cognitive mechanisms of categorisation' at the University of Canterbury, Chignell moved to the University of Toronto, rising to full professor.
In 2003, Chignell founded Vocalage Inc., a company that does usability consulting, outsourced research, and software development.
He participated in a 2003 experiment which gave doctors online access to medical databases through a handheld iPAQ PC, which led to changes in the decisions the doctors made.
Chignell was the general chair of ACM Hypertext 2010.

Selected works