Mark Chignell

Mark H. Chignell
Chignell in 2009
Born1956
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Thesis

Mark H. Chignell is a Canadian academic specialising in usability and information science, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Toronto.[1]

Academic career

He has a PhD in psychology (University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1981), and an MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Ohio State, 1984).

After a 1980 PhD titled 'Cognitive mechanisms of categorisation' at the University of Canterbury,[2] Chignell moved to the University of Toronto, rising to full professor.[1]

In 2003, Chignell founded Vocalage Inc.,[3] 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.[4][5]

Chignell was the general chair of ACM Hypertext 2010.[6]

Selected works

  • Abrams, David, Ronald Baecker, and Mark Chignell. "Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization." In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, vol. 98, pp. 41–48. 1998.
  • Parsaye, Kamran, Mark Chignell, and Setrag Khoshafian. "Intelligent databases. Object-oriented, deductive hypermedia technologies." New York: Wiley, 1989 (1989).
  • Parsaye, Kamran, and Mark Chignell. "Expert systems for experts." Earth Systems and Environment (1988).
  • Zhao, Shengdong, Pierre Dragicevic, Mark Chignell, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Patrick Baudisch. "Earpod: eyes-free menu selection using touch input and reactive audio feedback." In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1395–1404. ACM, 2007.
  • Fitzmaurice, George W., Shumin Zhai, and Mark H. Chignell. "Virtual reality for palmtop computers." ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 11, no. 3 (1993): 197–218.

References

  1. ^ a b "Mark H. Chignell".
  2. ^ Chignell, Mark (1980). Cognitive mechanisms of categorisation (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/7597. hdl:10092/5880.
  3. ^ "Our team | Vocalage". Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  4. ^ Buckler, Grant (1 October 2004). "Wireless content at work: why are we still making trivial use of the potential of wireless devices?". Computer Dealer News. Vol. 20 No. 14. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  5. ^ Cawfield, Diana (7 July 2003). "Gadgets to save a lifeWireless on call; Since the stethoscope, physicians have prized instant sources of vital data Handhelds for doctors on the go are the idea's latest evolution". Toronto Star. p. D-1. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  6. ^ "Committees". HT2010. Retrieved 20 June 2019.