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Lorraine Borman

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Lorraine Borman
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationM.A. History, Northwestern University 1971
Ph.B. Northwestern University 1969
Alma materNorthwestern University
Known forHuman-Computer Interaction
AwardsSIGCHI Lifetime Service Award
Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer science
InstitutionsNorthwestern University

Lorraine Borman is an American computer scientist associated with Northwestern University who specializes in information retrieval, computational social science, and human–computer interaction. She was one of the founders of SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery, and became its first chair.

Background

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Borman worked at the Vogelback Computing Center of Northwestern University, where she published several works in information retrieval and computational social science.[1][2][3] By 1977, she was editor of the Bulletin of the ACM Special Interest Group on the Social and Behavioral Science of Computing (SIGSOC), and in that role traveled to China with a group of Northwestern faculty and toured the computing facilities there.[4]

Founding SIGCHI

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Beginning in 1978, she and SIGSOC chair Greg Marks began talking about refocusing SIGSOC, because by then the use of computers in the social sciences had become more mainstream, making it possible for SIGSOC's core constituency of social scientists to interact through social science societies instead of through the ACM. Borman and Marks found their new focus in human–computer interaction; Borman chaired a panel on this topic at an ACM Conference in 1978, and was the proceedings editor of a SIGSOC conference in 1981 centered on the topic.[5] By 1982, they had persuaded the ACM to rename SIGSOC to SIGCHI. Borman became the first chair of the new SIG, and remained chair for six years.[6][7]

Awards and honors

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In 1992, the ACM gave Borman their Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award and in 1994 they elected her as an ACM Fellow "for her diligent work and commitment to the development and growth of SIGCHI and for her creative spark and skilled workmanship which guided the research and publication of the DataPlan Committee reports."[8] In 2003 she was given the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Borman, Lorraine; Dillaman, Donald (1968), TRIAL: An Information Retrieval System for Creating, Maintaining, Indexing, and Retrieving from Files of Textual Information (PDF), Vogelback Computing Center, Northwestern University, archived from the original (PDF) on June 19, 2015.
  2. ^ Borman, Lorraine; Hay, Richard (1974), Data Resources for the Social Sciences, Vogelback Computing Center, Northwestern University.
  3. ^ Mittman, Benjamin; Borman, Lorraine (1975), Personalized Data Base Systems, Melville Pub. Co..
  4. ^ Grosch, Herbert R. J. (December 18, 1978), "Article on Chinese DP Well Worth Reading", White Hat, Black Hat, Computerworld: 17.
  5. ^ Dunn, Robert; Martin, Thomas H.; Miller, Lawrence; Smith, Hugh; Watkins, Shirley Ward; Borman, Lorraine (1978). "People-Oriented Computer Systems (Panel Discussion): When, and How?". Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference on - ACM 78. ACM '78. ACM. p. 461. doi:10.1145/800127.804148. ISBN 9780897910002. S2CID 10425810.
  6. ^ Borman, Lorraine (January 1996), "SIGCHI: The Early Years", SIGCHI Bulletin, 28 (1), doi:10.1145/249170.249172, S2CID 20502581, archived from the original on 2015-05-04, retrieved 2015-06-18.
  7. ^ a b 2003 SIGCHI Awards Archived 2017-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-06-18.
  8. ^ Award citation, ACM Fellow, retrieved 2015-06-18.
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