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
ACMSIGCHI 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]
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]
^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.
^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.
^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.
ISSN1073-0516.
S2CID2759800.