Mark Chignell Explained

Mark H. Chignell
Birth Date:	1956
Workplaces:	University of Toronto
Alma Mater:	University of Canterbury
Thesis1 Title:	Cognitive mechanisms of categorisation.
Thesis1 Url:	https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/5880
Thesis1 Year:	1980

Mark H. Chignell is a Canadian academic specialising in usability and information science, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Toronto.^[1]

Academic career

He has a PhD in psychology (University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1981), and an MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Ohio State, 1984).

After a 1980 PhD titled Cognitive mechanisms of categorisation' at the University of Canterbury,^[2] Chignell moved to the University of Toronto, rising to full professor.^[1]

In 2003, Chignell founded Vocalage Inc.,^[3] a company that does usability consulting, outsourced research, and software development.

He participated in a 2003 experiment which gave doctors online access to medical databases through a handheld iPAQ PC, which led to changes in the decisions the doctors made.^{[4] [5]}

Chignell was the general chair of ACM Hypertext 2010.^[6]

Selected works

• Abrams, David, Ronald Baecker, and Mark Chignell. "Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization." In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, vol. 98, pp. 41–48. 1998.
• Parsaye, Kamran, Mark Chignell, and Setrag Khoshafian. "Intelligent databases. Object-oriented, deductive hypermedia technologies." New York: Wiley, 1989 (1989).
• Parsaye, Kamran, and Mark Chignell. "Expert systems for experts." Earth Systems and Environment (1988).
• Zhao, Shengdong, Pierre Dragicevic, Mark Chignell, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Patrick Baudisch. "Earpod: eyes-free menu selection using touch input and reactive audio feedback." In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1395–1404. ACM, 2007.
• Fitzmaurice, George W., Shumin Zhai, and Mark H. Chignell. "Virtual reality for palmtop computers." ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 11, no. 3 (1993): 197–218.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mark H. Chignell.
2. Chignell . Mark . 1980 . Doctoral thesis . Cognitive mechanisms of categorisation. . UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury . 10092/5880 . 10.26021/7597 .
3. Web site: Our team | Vocalage . 9 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140812121520/http://www.vocalage.com/our-team . 12 August 2014 . dead .
4. News: Wireless content at work: why are we still making trivial use of the potential of wireless devices?. Buckler. Grant. October 1, 2004. Computer Dealer News . Vol. 20 No. 14. 19 February 2010.
5. News: Gadgets to save a lifeWireless on call; Since the stethoscope, physicians have prized instant sources of vital data Handhelds for doctors on the go are the idea's latest evolution . https://archive.today/20130201040421/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/648475011.html?dids=648475011:648475011&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+07,+2003&author=&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Gadgets+to+save+a+lifeWireless+on+call+;+Since+the+stethoscope,+physicians+have+prized+instant+sources+of+vital+data+Handhelds+for+doctors+on+the+go+are+the+idea's+latest+evolution+by+Diana+Cawfield&pqatl=google. dead. 1 February 2013. Cawfield. Diana. July 7, 2003 . Toronto Star. D-1. 19 February 2010.
6. Web site: Committees . HT2010 . 2019-06-20.