Steve Whittaker

Steve Whittaker
Residence United States
Alma mater University of Cambridge (MA)
University of St Andrews (Ph.D)
Awards CHI Lifetime Achievement Award, SIGCHI (2014)
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (2014)
CHI Academy Member, SIGCHI (2008)
Scientific career
Fields Human-computer Interaction
Cognitive Science
Institutions University of California, Santa Cruz
Website Steve Whittaker's UCSC Website

Steve Whittaker is a Professor in Human-Computer Interaction.

Life

Whittaker was born in Liverpool. He works at the intersection of Computer Science and Psychology. He currently works at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He was previously a Professor in information retrieval at the Information Studies department at the University of Sheffield. He earned an MA at the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. at the University of St Andrews. He has also been a Research Scientist at HP Labs, Bell Labs, and IBM.

Whittaker has co-authored more than 150 technical papers. His work focuses on Human Computer Interaction, specifically the design and implementation of systems to support computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), computer mediated communication (CMC), personal information management (PIM) and interfaces for information retrieval, in particular for speech data. He has recently begun to focus on systems to support Human Memory and well-being. He also has over 40 patents.[1] He was elected to the ACM CHI Academy in 2008 for his "extensive contributions to the study of HCI" and for his leading role in "the shaping of the field".[2] and in 2014 he was awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award.[3] He was elected to Fellow of ACM (2014) for contributions to human-computer interaction.[4] Since 2014 he has been Editor of Human-Computer Interaction one of the top HCI journals.[5]

He has recently published a book with Ofer Bergman on Personal Information Management, titled The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff.

References

  1. ↑ Steve Whittaker's publications and patents
  2. ↑ ACM SIGCHI 2008 awards page Archived 2014-10-28 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ ACM SIGCHI 2014 awards page.
  4. ↑ Steve Whittaker ACM Fellows 2014
  5. ↑ "Human Computer Interaction Journal". 29 (1). Taylor & Francis. 2014. ISSN 0737-0024.


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