Elizabeth Churchill

Elizabeth Churchill is a Director of User Experience at Google focusing on the design and development of devices and developer tools for the connected ecosystems of the Social Web and Internet of Things.

After leaving academia in 1997, Elizabeth has been a principal contributor and leader for research at well known corporate research and development organizations including eBay Research Labs in San Jose, Yahoo! in Santa Clara, California and for Xerox at PARC and FXPAL, Fuji Xerox’s Research lab in Silicon Valley.

Elizabeth's work has been successful across the research field, including over 100 publications in the fields of theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, computer mediated communication and social media. Elizabeth has more than 50 patents granted or pending and has co-edited books on conversational agents, virtual environments, public and situated displays, and agent supported cooperative work. She was an author for the recent academic text, Foundations for Designing User Centered Systems, and her upcoming work includes Designing with Data, to be published by O'Reilly in 2016. She has been a regular columnist for ACM's interactions magazine.

Elizabeth is a member of the CHI Academy, an ACM Distinguished Scientist and Speaker, and served on the Executive Committee of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction for 8 years–2 years as Vice President for Chapters and 6 years as Executive Vice President.

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