Elizabeth Churchill

Biography
I am a research scientist working on the design and use of communication technologies. Originally a psychologist by training, for the past 15 years I have drawn on diverse areas to consider how to design effective communication situations—both face to face and technologically mediated. Influences on my work include psychology, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and film studies. Applications developed and/or evaluated include cell phone interfaces, textual and 3d graphical environments, interactive digital posterboards and animated interface personas. I currently work at PARC, the Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California. Formerly I was the project lead of the Social Computing Group at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto. My most recent work at PARC addresses sociotechnical configurations for software design and development in large organizations. My focus in this work continues to foreground the person-to-person communications and relationships (mediated or not) that constitute effective information creation and knowledge sharing within such settings.

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