Kori Marie Inkpen (also published as Kori Inkpen Quinn) is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction at

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. A consistent theme of her research has been the interaction of children with computers. Inkpen is a 1992 graduate of

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus ...

, and completed her Ph.D. in 1997 at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

(UBC). At UBC, she credits

Maria Klawe Maria Margaret Klawe ( ; born 1951) is a Canadian-American computer scientist and served as the fifth president of Harvey Mudd College from 2006 to 2023. Born in Toronto in 1951, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2009. She was previously ...

and a project led by Klawe on educational electronic games for sparking her interest in human-computer interaction and encouraging her to continue in academic computer science. Her dissertation, ''Adapting the Human-Computer Interface to Support Collaborative Learning Environments'', was jointly supervised by Klawe and

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. After postdoctoral research at the

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, she was a faculty member at

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from 1998 to 2001 and at

from 2001 to 2007 before joining Microsoft in 2008. In 2017 the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society gave her their CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award "for her many contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, especially her work on collaboration technologies".

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External links

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A Conversation with the CHCCS 2017 Achievement Award Winner: Kori Inkpen, Microsoft Research
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