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Elizabeth F. Churchill Quotes

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Elizabeth Frances Churchill is a British American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI) and social computing. She is a Director of User Experience at Google.

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How do you get the data you need to make a persuasive argument with examples that can actually mean that we have long-term high value, sustainable experiences for people.

I am happy that all around me there is growing awareness that there are many ways to be effective. Traits typically associated with being socialized as a woman are being recognized as positive now.

How do we understand where we’re getting it right and for whom and where we’re not and where we want to invest.

I started working in HCI when I started building “programmable user models”, what we affectionately called “PUM”s.

"I have been called the David Attenborough of technology design.”

I have faced challenges. I am thankful that in my personal situation I haven’t had too many really challenging issues, but it is always a struggle.

“I am a big fan of understanding people and I’d say every step along [my career] has been motivated by understanding more deeply how people act and interact."

There are always challenges when one is a member of a minority, and that is doubled when that minority is not the one which has had the institutionalized power for generations

"We see negative results of technology because not enough weight was put on the potential social impacts when evaluating the technology’s potential. A challenge, in the positive sense, is trying to get people to understand that any technology that’s designed and then released is a socially impactful technology, as well as a deep technical achievement."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth F. Churchill (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.