Abigail Sellen

Orcid: 0000-0001-9065-3061

Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research


According to our database1, Abigail Sellen authored at least 147 papers between 1988 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:
  • Dijkstra number2 of four.
  • Erdős number3 of four.

Awards

ACM Fellow

ACM Fellow 2016, "For contributions to human-computer interaction and the design of human-centered technology".

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Bibliography

2024
Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions.
CoRR, 2024

2023
Meeting (the) Pandemic: Videoconferencing Fatigue and Evolving Tensions of Sociality in Enterprise Video Meetings During COVID-19.
Comput. Support. Cooperative Work., June, 2023

Perspectives: Creating Inclusive and Equitable Hybrid Meeting Experiences.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2023

A Distracted Scientist: The Life and Contributions of John Senders.
Hum. Factors, 2023

Defending Against Medical Error: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of John Senders.
Hum. Factors, 2023

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI.
CoRR, 2023

The Rise of the AI Co-Pilot: Lessons for Design from Aviation and Beyond.
CoRR, 2023

2022
Introduction to this special issue: the future of remote work: responses to the pandemic.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

Transforming the Future of Work through Human-centred Design.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, 2022

Automated mapping of competitive and collaborative overlapping talk in video meetings.
Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022, 2022

2021
PeopleLens.
Interactions, 2021

The promise and peril of parallel chat in video meetings for work.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Social Sensemaking with AI: Designing an Open-ended AI Experience with a Blind Child.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

HCI 2020: Looking Back To the Future.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Enabling meaningful use of AI-infused educational technologies for children with blindness: Learnings from the development and piloting of the PeopleLens curriculum.
Proceedings of the ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2021

2020
Interpretability as a dynamic of human-AI interaction.
Interactions, 2020

Investigating the intelligibility of a computer vision system for blind users.
Proceedings of the IUI '20: 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020

2018
Visualizing Ubiquitously Sensed Measures of Motor Ability in Multiple Sclerosis: Reflections on Communicating Machine Learning in Practice.
ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2018

The Benefits and Challenges of Video Calling for Emergency Situations.
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

Exploring New Metaphors for a Networked World through the File Biography.
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

2016
Body Tracking in Healthcare
Synthesis Lectures on Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ISBN: 978-3-031-01600-4, 2016

Design Research as Conceptual Designing: The Manhattan Design Concept.
Interact. Comput., 2016

Introduction to Special Issue on Body Tracking and Healthcare.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 2016

Assessing Multiple Sclerosis With Kinect: Designing Computer Vision Systems for Real-World Use.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 2016

Erratum to: Interactional Order and Constructed Ways of Seeing with Touchless Imaging Systems in Surgery.
Comput. Support. Cooperative Work., 2016

RichReview++: Deployment of a Collaborative Multi-modal Annotation System for Instructor Feedback and Peer Discussion.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2016

Setwise Comparison: Consistent, Scalable, Continuum Labels for Computer Vision.
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

"Like Having a Really Bad PA": The Gulf between User Expectation and Experience of Conversational Agents.
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction.
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

Finding Email in a Multi-Account, Multi-Device World.
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

PathSync: Multi-User Gestural Interaction with Touchless Rhythmic Path Mimicry.
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

Designing for Active Place Presence at Home: The Hole in Space Design Experiment.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS '16, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, June 04, 2016

2015
Pick up and play: understanding tangibility for cloud media.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Linz, Austria, November 30, 2015

The Costs and Benefits of Combining Gaze and Hand Gestures for Remote Interaction.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2015, 2015

Digital Collections and Digital Collecting Practices.
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015

Voice or Gesture in the Operating Room.
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015

2014
Hybrid crafting: towards an integrated practice of crafting with physical and digital components.
Pers. Ubiquitous Comput., 2014

The computer-mediated living group, Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Interactions, 2014

Interactional Order and Constructed Ways of Seeing with Touchless Imaging Systems in Surgery.
Comput. Support. Cooperative Work., 2014

Touchless interaction in surgery.
Commun. ACM, 2014

RichReview: blending ink, speech, and gesture to support collaborative document review.
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2014

ASSESS MS: supporting the clinical assessment of Multiple Sclerosis using Kinect.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2014

Reflections on craft research <i>for</i> and <i>through</i> design.
Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, 2014

Quantifying Progression of Multiple Sclerosis via Classification of Depth Videos.
Proceedings of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2014, 2014

"Real, but Glossy": technology and the practical pursuit of magic in modern weddings.
Proceedings of the Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2014

Designing for slowness, anticipation and re-visitation: a long term field study of the photobox.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

Place-onas: shared resource for designing body tracking applications.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

Social NUI: social perspectives in natural user interfaces.
Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2014

Collaborating with computer vision systems: an exploration of audio feedback.
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2014, DIS '14, Vancouver, BC, 2014

2013
On the naturalness of touchless: Putting the "interaction" back into NUI.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2013

Rethinking the web as a personal archive.
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Toward compound navigation tasks on mobiles via spatial manipulation.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2013

Leisure-Based Reading and the Place of E-Books in Everyday Life.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2013, 2013

Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the 'aesthetic' of the home.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

Graduate student use of a multi-slate reading system.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

2012
Designing a multi-slate reading environment to support active reading activities.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2012

Socio-Technical Lifelogging: Deriving Design Principles for a Future Proof Digital Past.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 2012

Food for Talk: Phototalk in the Context of Sharing a Meal.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 2012

A Design Perspective on Three Technology Heirlooms.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 2012

"It's simply integral to what I do": enquiries into how the web is weaved into everyday life.
Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference 2012, 2012

Lost in translation: understanding the possession of digital things in the cloud.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

Technology heirlooms?: considerations for passing down and inheriting digital materials.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

Interaction proxemics and image use in neurosurgery.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

At home with surface computing?
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

Photobox: on the design of a slow technology.
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2012, 2012

Towards a more cherishable digital object.
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2012, 2012

The role of physical controllers in motion video gaming.
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2012, 2012

Family Archiving in the Digital Age.
Proceedings of the Connected Home - The Future of Domestic Life., 2012

Absence and Family Life: Understanding and Supporting Adaption to Change.
Proceedings of the Connected Home - The Future of Domestic Life., 2012

2011
Sociable killers: understanding social relationships in an online first-person shooter game.
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2011

Embodiment in brain-computer interaction.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

Exploring the potential for touchless interaction in image-guided interventional radiology.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

Making public media personal: nostalgia and reminiscence in the office.
Proceedings of the 2011 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2011

2010
On human remains: Values and practice in the home archiving of cherished objects.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2010

Beyond total capture: a constructive critique of lifelogging.
Commun. ACM, 2010

Understanding the everyday use of images on the web.
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2010, 2010

Connecting families: new technologies, family communication, and the impact on domestic space.
Proceedings of the 2010 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2010

Home video communication: mediating 'closeness'.
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2010

Opening up the family archive.
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2010

Understanding family communication across time zones.
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2010

Telling the whole story: anticipation, inspiration and reputation in a field deployment of TellTable.
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2010

Passing on & putting to rest: understanding bereavement in the context of interactive technologies.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Designing a technological playground: a field study of the emergence of play in household messaging.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Now let me see where i was: understanding how lifelogs mediate memory.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

Who's hogging the bandwidth: the consequences of revealing the invisible in the home.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

2009
Supporting Family Awareness with the Whereabouts Clock.
Proceedings of the Awareness Systems - Advances in Theory, Methodology and Design, 2009

The family and communication technologies.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2009

Resilience in the face of innovation: Household trials with BubbleBoard.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2009

Home curation versus teenage photography: Photo displays in the family home.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2009

Reflecting human values in the digital age.
Commun. ACM, 2009

The other brother: re-experiencing spontaneous moments from domestic life.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2009, 2009

Shoebox: mixing storage and display of digital images in the home.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2009, 2009

Developing the story: designing an interactive storytelling application.
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, 2009

Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape: attitudes of older adults.
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009

Exploring the potential of audio-tactile messaging for remote interpersonal communication.
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009

Putting the physical into the digital: issues in designing hybrid interactive surfaces.
Proceedings of the 2009 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2009

Photo displays and intergenerational relationships in the family home.
Proceedings of the 2009 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2009

Evolving and augmenting worth mapping for family archives.
Proceedings of the 2009 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2009

2008
Sonic interventions: understanding and extending the domestic soundscape.
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008

Speculative devices for photo display.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008

Designing for elders: exploring the complexity of relationships in later life.
Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on HCI 2008: People and Computers XXII: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, 2008

2007
Homes that make us smart.
Pers. Ubiquitous Comput., 2007

Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock.
Proceedings of the UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing, 9th International Conference, 2007

Augmented Paper: Developing Relationships Between Digital Content and Paper.
Proceedings of the Disappearing Computer, 2007

Affordances for manipulation of physical versus digital media on interactive surfaces.
Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2007

Do life-logging technologies support memory for the past?: an experimental study using sensecam.
Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2007

Understanding videowork.
Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2007

2006
User sketches: a quick, inexpensive, and effective way to elicit more reflective user feedback.
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2006, Oslo, 2006

Augmenting refrigerator magnets: why less is sometimes more.
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2006, Oslo, 2006

HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home.
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2006

Getting the right design and the design right.
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006

The whereabouts clock: early testing of a situated awareness device.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006

Understanding photowork.
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006

Peripheral display of digital handwritten notes.
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006

2005
The ubiquitous camera: an in-depth study of camera phone use.
IEEE Pervasive Comput., 2005

I saw this and thought of you: some social uses of camera phones.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2005

2004
The Myth of the 'Martini Solution'.
Proceedings of the Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, 2004

Security and Trust in Mobile Interactions: A Study of Users' Perceptions and Reasoning.
Proceedings of the UbiComp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing: 6th International Conference, 2004

In-car concepts to support working parents.
Proceedings of the Extended abstracts of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2004

2002
Understanding the materiality of writing from multiple sources.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2002

How knowledge workers use the web.
Proceedings of the CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing our World, 2002

2001
Dealing with mobility: understanding access anytime, anywhere.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2001

Exploring Users' Experiences of the Web.
First Monday, 2001

The Use of Conventional and New Music Media: Implications for Future Technologies.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '01: IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2001

Music sharing as a computer supported collaborative application.
Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2001

2000
The value of video in work at a distance: Addition or distraction?
Behav. Inf. Technol., 2000

A diary study of information capture in working life.
Proceedings of the CHI 2000 Conference on Human factors in computing systems, 2000

1999
Supporting memory for spatial location while reading from small displays.
Proceedings of the CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1999

1998
Student Readers' Use of Library Documents: Implications for Library Technologies.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the CHI '98 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1998

A Diary Study of Work-Related Reading: Design Implications for Digital Reading Devices.
Proceedings of the Proceeding of the CHI '98 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1998

1997
Paper as an Analytic Resource for the Design of New Technologies.
Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1997

A Comparison of Reading Paper and On-Line Documents.
Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1997

1995
Remote Conversations: The Effects of Mediating Talk With Technology.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 1995

Reconsidering the Virtual Workplace: Flexible Support for Collaborative Activity.
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1995

Collaborative Tools and the Practicalities of Professional Work at the International Monetary Fund.
Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1995

1994
Drawability of Complete Graphs Using a Minimal Slope Set.
Comput. J., 1994

Two-handed input in a compound task.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1994

1993
An Empirical Evaluation of Some Articulatory and Cognitive Aspects of Marking Menus.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 1993

Design for Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing Environments.
Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1993

One is not enough: multiple views in a media space.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 1993

1992
The Prevention of Mode Errors Through Sensory Feedback.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 1992

Using Spatial Cues to Improve Videoconferencing.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1992

Speech Patterns in Video-Mediated Conversations
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1992

1991
Experiences in the use of a media space.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1991

A comparison of input devices in element pointing and dragging tasks.
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1991

1990
The role of visual and kinesthetic feedback in the prevention of mode errors.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 1990

1988
A study in interactive 3-D rotation using 2-D control devices.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 1988


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