Kraut Earns 2016 SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement in Research Award

Susie CribbsFriday, February 5, 2016

Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Robert Kraut has earned the 2016 SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement in Research Award.

Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Robert Kraut has been named the recipient of the 2016 SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement in Research Award. Presented annually by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, the award recognizes an individual for the very best, most fundamental and influential research contributions to the human-computer interaction field. According to SIGCHI, "It is awarded for a lifetime of innovation and leadership."

A founding member of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), Kraut began his career as a traditional social psychologist and spent time at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Bell Laboratories and Bell Communications Research. He joined the Carnegie Mellon community in 1993, and his research has broadly focused on the design and impact of social computing.

Kraut will receive the Lifetime Achievement in Research Award at the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2016), which will be held May 7–12 in San Jose, Calif.

Read the full story on the HCII website.

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