| Ann Blandford | |
| Honorific Suffix: | FHEA |
| Fields: | Human–Computer Interaction Human factors Patient safety Healthcare Information interaction |
| Thesis Url: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.29286 |
| Thesis Title: | Design, decisions and dialogue |
| Thesis Year: | 1991 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Eileen Scanlon Mark Elsom-Cook |
| Awards: | Suffrage Science award (2016) |
Ann Blandford FHEA is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at University College London (UCL).[1] She serves as deputy director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering.[2] Her research focuses on behaviour change, well-being, and human errors in the field of healthcare.[3] [4]
Blandford graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She worked as a software engineer before pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence (AI) and education at the Open University supervised by Eileen Scanlon and Mark Elsom-Cook.[5]
Blandford previously served as professor at the interaction design centre at Middlesex University from 1995 to 2001.
Blandford has served as professor in human-computer interaction at UCL since 2002, where her research has involved studies of serendipity, leading to a proposal for a new definition of the phenomenon.[6] With Stephann Makri she worked to further refine their classification of "serendipitous occurrences".[7] Her current work covers HCI research in digital health, including challenges of interdisciplinarity.[8]
In 2016, Blandford became one of the first 12 women to receive a Suffrage Science award for contributions to the field of maths and computing.[9]