Elizabeth F. Churchill

Elizabeth Frances Churchill is a British American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI) and social computing.[2] She is a Director of User Experience at Google and Vice President of the ACM.[3][4][5]

Elizabeth Churchill
Churchill in 2008
Born
Elizabeth Frances Churchill

Calcutta, India
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Sussex (BSc, MSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known forFeminism
Embodied Conversational Agents
AwardsACM Fellow (2019)
CHI Academy (2016)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsDesign
Human computer interaction
Psychology
Social media[2]
InstitutionsGoogle
eBay
Yahoo
PARC
FXPAL
University of Nottingham
ThesisModels of models : cognitive, computational and empirical investigations of learning a device (1993)
Doctoral advisorRichard Young
Thomas Green
Other academic advisorsThomas P. Moran
Websiteelizabethchurchill.com

Education and early life

Churchill was born in Calcutta, India and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in her early childhood. She gained a Bachelor of Science degree in Experimental Psychology and a Master of Science in Knowledge Based Systems from Sussex University in the United Kingdom where she worked on Soar simulations.[6] She completed her PhD in 1993 at the University of Cambridge.[7]

Career and research

After her PhD she joined University of Nottingham as a postdoctoral researcher. In 1997, she moved to California, United States to join FXPAL where she formed and led their Social Computing Group. In 2004, Churchill joined Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). She joined Yahoo! in 2006 as a principal research scientist, where she formed and led the Internet Experiences Group in the Microeconomics and Social Systems division of Yahoo! Labs. Her group and research was multidisciplinary, addressing the intersection of computer science, cognitive and social psychology, design science, neuroscience, analytics, and anthropology. She was previously Director of Human Computer Interaction for eBay Research Labs in San Jose, CA. Currently, she is a Director of User Experience at Google in Mountain View, CA. In 2009, she was elected as the Executive Vice President of ACM SIGCHI on a joint ballot with Gerrit van der Veer, SIGCHI's president.

Churchill is known for her work on Embodied Conversational Agents and co-edited a book[8] of the same name, an area of HCI which uses computer generated embodied agents together with a model of gesture and facial expression to enable face-to-face speech communication with people. She is also known for her work on public displays and installations.[9] In 2011, she co-edited a special journal issue on Feminism and HCI[10] with Shaowen Bardzell at Indiana University Bloomington.

Churchill has chaired and run the technical program in several top conferences and publishes regularly in top-tier academic journals and conferences in computer science, human-computer interaction, sociology, and related fields. Her work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines around the world including Scientific American[11] and SFGate.[12]

Awards and honours

Churchill was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2019 for "contributions to human-computer interaction and service to the ACM" .[13]

References
  1. "CHI Academy Member". SIGCHI. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  2. Elizabeth F. Churchill publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2018/may/acm-new-officers-2018
  4. "Citris Athena Award for Executive Leadership". CITRUS and the Banatao Institute. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  5. ACM SIGCHI Officers and Committees
  6. Churchill, E.F.; Young, R.M. (1991). "Modelling Representations of Device Knowledge in Soar". In Steels, Luc; Smith, Barbara (eds.). Proceedings of AISB '91. Springer-Verlag.
  7. Churchill, Elizabeth Frances (1993). Models of models : cognitive, computational and empirical investigations of learning a device. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 855137739. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.321549.
  8. Cassell, J., Sullivan J., Prevost, S., Churchill, E. F. (2000). Embodied Conversational Agents. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. O'Hara, K.; Perry, M.; Churchill, E.F.; Russell, D. (2003). Public and Situated Displays. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  10. Bardzell, Shaowen; Churchill, Elizabeth F. (September 2011). "Feminism and HCI: New Perspectives". Interacting with Computers. 23 (5). doi:10.1016/S0953-5438(11)00089-0.
  11. Greenemeier, Larry (September 29, 2010). "Sentiment-sensing software could aid in weeding hostile online comments". Scientific American. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  12. Temple, James (January 11, 2010). "Social science meets computer science at Yahoo". SF Gate. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  13. https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/churchill_4552865
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