Ann Blandford

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is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at

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(UCL).Anne Blandford's She serves as deputy director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. Her research focuses on behaviour change, well-being, and human errors in the field of healthcare.

Education

Blandford graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the

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. She worked as a software engineer before pursuing a

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(AI) and education at the

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supervised by Eileen Scanlon and Mark Elsom-Cook.

Career and research

Blandford previously served as professor at the interaction design centre at

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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. With Stephann Makri she worked to further refine their classification of "serendipitous occurrences". Her current work covers HCI research in digital health, including challenges of interdisciplinarity.

Awards and honours

In 2016, Blandford became one of the first 12 women to receive a

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for contributions to the field of maths and computing.

References

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