Abigail Sellen

Sellen earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Don Norman.^[2]

Sellen's research investigates human–computer interaction (HCI).^[1][7][8][9] She has worked as a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge^[when?] as well as for various corporate research laboratories including Xerox PARC, Apple Inc., and HP Labs before joining Microsoft in 2004.^[4]

With Richard H. R. Harper, Sellen wrote The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press, 2001).^[1][7][10]

She is a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS),^[11] the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and the British Computer Society.^[5] She was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2011.^[12] In 2016 she became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "for contributions to human-computer interaction and the design of human-centered technology".^[3][5] She was elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020, for "contributions that ensure consideration of human capabilities in the design of computer systems".^[13]