Victoria Bellotti
| Victoria Bellotti | |
|---|---|
| Born | Manchester, UK |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Citizenship |
American British |
| Fields |
Human-computer interaction Personal Information Management |
| Institutions |
PARC University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Alma mater |
Queen Mary and Westfield College University College London |
Victoria Bellotti is a Research Fellow in the Computer Sciences Lab (CSL) at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). She is known for her work in the area of personal information management[1] and task management, and is currently working on user-centered design of context- and activity-aware computing systems. She received her Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction from Westfield College and Queen Mary, a B.S. in Psychology, and a M.S. in Ergonomics from University College (London University in the United Kingdom).[2] Victoria also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at University of California Santa Cruz, on the Editorial Board of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing[3] and as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of HCI.[4] She is an active researcher in the HCI community, and has been serving as one of the two co-chairs of the "Understanding People" technical papers subcommittee for 2013 and 2014 of the ACM SIGCHI conference.[5] In 2013 she was awarded membership of the ACM SIGCHI Academy for her contributions to the field and professional community of Human Computer Interaction.[6][7] Until now, Victoria has co-authored 19 patents and over 60 papers with an overall citation count of 9,132, h-index of 34 and i10-index of 54.[8]
Victoria is also a developer of PARC's Opportunity Discovery research and strategic investment targeting program. This program assists its clients by helping to send them in the best direction with new technology-centered business ventures. She is constantly studying people to understand their practices, problems, and what they will need to do to be able to use future technologies.[9]
Before joining PARC, Victoria worked for London University UK, The British Government's Department of Trade and Industry, EuroPARC, and Apple Research Lab; where she focused on domains such as transportation, process control, computer-mediated communication, collaboration, and ubiquitous computing.
References
- ↑ PIM/PDM
- ↑ "Victoria Bellotti". parc.com. PARC publications.
- ↑ Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
- ↑ International Journal of HCI
- ↑ ACM CHI
- ↑ SIGCHI Awards
- ↑ CHI Academy
- ↑ Google Scholar
- ↑ "Victoria Bellotti". parc.com. PARC publications.