Shaowen Bardzell
Shaowen Bardzell is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist who is the chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, where she is a professor. Her research concerns humanistic informatics, feminist approaches to human–computer interaction, and sustainable design.
Education and career
Bardzell earned a bachelor's degree in foreign languages and literatures at Tunghai University in Taiwan in 1991, and then went to Indiana University Bloomington for graduate study in comparative literature. She received a master's degree in 1994 and completed her Ph.D. in 2004, with the dissertation Hospitality and Gift Exchange: Reciprocity and Its Roles in Two Medieval Narratives.After continuing at Indiana University Bloomington as a visiting assistant professor in the School of Public Health, she took a position as an assistant professor in the School of Informatics and Computing of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis in 2007. She returned to Indiana University Bloomington as an assistant professor in the School of Informatics and Computing in 2008, and was promoted to associate professor in 2013.
She moved to the Pennsylvania State University College of Information Sciences and Technology in 2020. In 2023 she moved again to her present position at Georgia Tech. She took over the department chair previously held by Ayanna Howard, who became dean of engineering at Ohio State University.
Recognition
Bardzell received the SIGCHI Societal Impact Award in 2023. In the following year, she was named to the CHI Academy and the year after an ACM Distinguished Member.Books
Bardzell is the coauthor of books including:Mastering Macromedia Contribute Macromedia Studio 8 Humanistic HCIHer edited volumes include:Critical Theory and Interaction Design.