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'''Mark H. Chignell''' is a Canadian academic specialising in [[usability]] and [[information science]], and as of 2019 is a full professor at the [[University of Toronto]].<ref name="bio">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mie.utoronto.ca/faculty_staff/chignell/|title=Mark H. Chignell}}</ref>

==Academic career==

He has a PhD in psychology (University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1981), and an MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Ohio State, 1984).

After a 1980 [[PhD]] titled '''Cognitive mechanisms of categorisation' '' at the [[University of Canterbury]],<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Chignell |first=Mark |year=1980 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Cognitive mechanisms of categorisation. |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |hdl=10092/5880 |doi=10.26021/7597 |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/5880}}</ref> Chignell moved to the [[University of Toronto]], rising to full professor.<ref name="bio"/>

In 2003, Chignell founded Vocalage Inc.,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vocalage.com/our-team |title=Our team | Vocalage |access-date=9 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812121520/http://www.vocalage.com/our-team |archive-date=12 August 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> a company that does usability consulting, outsourced research, and software development.

He participated in a 2003 experiment which gave doctors online access to medical databases through a handheld [[iPAQ]] PC, which led to changes in the decisions the doctors made.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/CDN/News.asp?id=17887&bSearch=True|title=Wireless content at work: why are we still making trivial use of the potential of wireless devices?|last=Buckler|first=Grant|date=October 1, 2004|work=Computer Dealer News |publisher= Vol. 20 No. 14|accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/648475011.html?dids=648475011:648475011&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+07%2C+2003&author=&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Gadgets+to+save+a+lifeWireless+on+call+%3B+Since+the+stethoscope%2C+physicians+have+prized+instant+sources+of+vital+data+Handhelds+for+doctors+on+the+go+are+the+idea%27s+latest+evolution+by+Diana+Cawfield&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201040421/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/648475011.html?dids=648475011:648475011&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+07,+2003&author=&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Gadgets+to+save+a+lifeWireless+on+call+;+Since+the+stethoscope,+physicians+have+prized+instant+sources+of+vital+data+Handhelds+for+doctors+on+the+go+are+the+idea's+latest+evolution+by+Diana+Cawfield&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2013|title=Gadgets to save a lifeWireless on call; Since the stethoscope, physicians have prized instant sources of vital data Handhelds for doctors on the go are the idea's latest evolution |last=Cawfield|first=Diana|date =July 7, 2003 |work=Toronto Star|page =D-1|accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref>

Chignell was the general chair of ACM Hypertext 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ht2010.org/Committees.html |title=Committees |publisher=HT2010 |date= |accessdate=2019-06-20}}</ref>

== Selected works ==
* Abrams, David, Ronald Baecker, and Mark Chignell. "Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization." In [[Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems]], vol. 98, pp. 41–48. 1998.
* Parsaye, Kamran, Mark Chignell, and Setrag Khoshafian. "Intelligent databases. Object-oriented, deductive hypermedia technologies." New York: Wiley, 1989 (1989).
* Parsaye, Kamran, and Mark Chignell. "Expert systems for experts." Earth Systems and Environment (1988).
* Zhao, Shengdong, Pierre Dragicevic, Mark Chignell, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Patrick Baudisch. "Earpod: eyes-free menu selection using touch input and reactive audio feedback." In Proceedings of the [[Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems]], pp. 1395–1404. ACM, 2007.
* Fitzmaurice, George W., Shumin Zhai, and Mark H. Chignell. "Virtual reality for palmtop computers." [[ACM Transactions on Information Systems]] (TOIS) 11, no. 3 (1993): 197–218.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Google Scholar id | id= 6C1lQzwAAAAJ }} 
* {{LinkedIn URL | url= https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-chignell-13b303/ }}
* {{ResearchGate | id= Mark_Chignell }}

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