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2025

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
  • 2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to human-computer interaction, mixed reality and participatory design, and leadership in ACM SIGCHI

Overview

Wendy E. Mackay is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research primarily focuses on fields within computer science, with a significant emphasis on human-computer interaction. Their work spans several subfields including human-computer interaction, cognitive neuroscience, computer vision and pattern recognition, information systems and management, and sociology and political science.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Usability and User Interface Design
  • Personal Information Management and User Behavior
  • Design Education and Practice
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "ImageSense: An Intelligent Collaborative Ideation Tool to Support Diverse Human-Computer Partnerships," 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Deskilling, Upskilling, and Reskilling: a Case for Hybrid Intelligence," 2021, Morals & Machines
  • "Generative Theories of Interaction," 2021, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • "DesignPrompt: Using Multimodal Interaction for Design Exploration with Generative AI," 2024, Designing Interactive Systems Conference
  • "Passages: Interacting with Text Across Documents," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Frequent collaborators in Wendy Mackay's work include:

  • Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
  • Mandy Potter
  • Petrusa Smit
  • Lucy Brink
  • Hein J. Odendaal

They have published multiple times in these venues:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Creativity and Cognition
  • Morals & Machines

Wendy Mackay authored a book published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled "DOIT: The Design of Interactive Things: CHI 2023 Preview," published in 2023.

Their work has been recognized with the ACM Fellow award in 2019 for contributions to human-computer interaction, mixed reality, participatory design, and leadership in ACM SIGCHI.

Best Publications

  • Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families

    Hilary Hutchinson;Wendy Mackay;Bo Westerlund;Benjamin B. Bederson

  • Back to the real world

    Pierre Wellner;Wendy Mackay;Rich Gold

  • Triggers and barriers to customizing software

    Wendy E. Mackay

  • Is paper safer? The role of paper flight strips in air traffic control

    Wendy E. MacKay

  • Prototyping tools and techniques

    Michel Beaudouin-Lafon;Wendy Mackay

  • OctoPocus: a dynamic guide for learning gesture-based command sets

    Olivier Bau;Wendy E. Mackay

  • Patterns of sharing customizable software

    Wendy E. Mackay

  • Diversity in the use of electronic mail: a preliminary inquiry

    Wendy E. Mackay

  • Computer Augmented Environments : Back to the Real World

    Pierre Wellner;Wendy Mackay;Rich Gold

  • Virtual video editing in interactive multimedia applications

    Wendy E. Mackay;Glorianna Davenport

  • HCI, natural science and design: a framework for triangulation across disciplines

    Wendy E. Mackay;Anne-Laure Fayard

  • Mid-air pan-and-zoom on wall-sized displays

    Mathieu Nancel;Julie Wagner;Emmanuel Pietriga;Olivier Chapuis

  • More than just a communication system: diversity in the use of electronic mail

    Wendy E. Mackay

  • Augmented reality: linking real and virtual worlds: a new paradigm for interacting with computers

    Wendy E. Mackay

  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

    Wendy E. Mackay;Stephen Brewster;Susanne Bødker

  • Ethics, lies and videotape…

    Wendy E. Mackay

  • Users and customizable software : a co-adaptive phenomenon

    Wendy E Mackay

  • The missing link: augmenting biology laboratory notebooks

    Wendy E. Mackay;Guillaume Pothier;Catherine Letondal;Kaare Bøegh

  • Reinventing the familiar: exploring an augmented reality design space for air traffic control

    Wendy E. Mackay;Anne-Laure Fayard;Laurent Frobert;Lionel Médini

  • Reification, polymorphism and reuse: three principles for designing visual interfaces

    Michel Beaudouin-Lafon;Wendy E. Mackay

  • Video artifacts for design: bridging the Gap between abstraction and detail

    Wendy E. Mackay;Anne V. Ratzer;Paul Janecek

  • Computer-Augmented Environments: Back to the Real World - Introduction to the Special Issue.

    Pierre D. Wellner;Wendy E. Mackay;Rich Gold

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon University of Paris-Saclay
Joanna McGrenere
Joanna McGrenere University of British Columbia
Susanne Bødker
Susanne Bødker Aarhus University
Steven Dow
Steven Dow University of California, San Diego
Stephen Brewster
Stephen Brewster University of Glasgow
Marcelo M. Wanderley
Marcelo M. Wanderley McGill University
Panos Markopoulos
Panos Markopoulos Eindhoven University of Technology
Kurt Jensen
Kurt Jensen Aarhus University
Enrico Motta
Enrico Motta The Open University

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