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CHI bestows Lifetime Achievement Awards on Olsons
(Mar 2006) School of Information professors Judy Olson and Gary Olson will each receive a 2006 CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction section.
The awards will be conferred at the annual CHI conference from April 22-27 in Montreal. Gary Olson is chair of the international conference. Gary Olson is Paul M. Fitts Collegiate Professor of Human Computer Interaction and associate dean for research. Judy Olson is Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professor of Human Computer Interaction.
The CHI Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals for outstanding contributions to the study of human-computer interaction. The award recognizes a lifetime of innovation and leadership and carries an honorarium of $5,000. Criteria for the award are cumulative contributions to the field, influencing the work of others, and developing new research directions.
This is the second major honor from the organization to the Olsons. Both are also fellows of the prestigious CHI Academy.
The Olsons have been active in the field throughout their careers at the University of Michigan and through professional organizations. Gary Olson served as conference co-chair for the Designing Interactive Systems conferences in 1995 and '97 and the Computer Supported Cooperative Work conference in 2004. Judy Olson served as co-chair for papers for CHI '94. Together, they served as technical program co-chairs for CHI '91 and as papers co-chairs for the 1996 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
"Although each stands alone as a strong, independent contributor and was each separately inducted into the CHI Academy, this award recognizes their major, lifetime impact as the collaborative study of collaboration: not only making a major contribution to the development of the science of collaboration, but living the same role themselves," the award committee noted.
The Olsons' major contributions have been to the study of collaboration and collaboration technologies at the U-M School of Business and the School of Information. They were instrumental in creating the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work and have been involved in several grant-funded projects that involved the creation of collaboratories to enable researchers at a distance to share knowledge. Although both have published prolifically alone about their research, they have been co-authors together on approximately 49 of their papers.
"This award honors their long, productive collaboration as a single, unique contribution to the field of computer-human interaction, or perhaps more accurately, of human-human collaboration, mediated and enhanced through modern technologies," CHI said.
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