Jessica Cauchard appointed as ACM Distinguished Speaker
We are delighted to announce that Jessica Cauchard has been appointed as ACM Distinguished Speaker!

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest computing society, and through its Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) invites experts from academia, industry, and government to share their insights with ACM members and the wider IT community. ACM Distinguished Speakers are appointed for a period of three years. The DSP is committed to outreach, offering its content through a network of exceptional speakers and creating opportunities for professional networking.
Jessica Cauchard is the third scholar from TU Wien Informatics to become an ACM Distinguished Speaker, after Schahram Dustdar and Geraldine Fitzpatrick, and she is currently the only ACM Distinguished Speaker in Austria.
In the DSP Program, three of Jessica’s lectures are currently available for request:
About Jessica Cauchard
Jessica Cauchard is Professor of Artifact-based Computing and User Research at TU Wien Informatics. Her research is rooted in the fields of Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction with a focus on novel interaction techniques and ubiquitous computing. She is passionate about how technology is changing and how we interact with our world and with one another, and her research aims at designing intelligent systems that can co-exist with humans. Previously, she was a faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, where she founded and headed the Magic Lab, and in the Department of Computer Science at Reichman University, Israel. Dr. Cauchard received her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK, in 2014 and worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Cornell Tech and Stanford University, USA.
Curious about Jessica Cauchard? Read more about her and work in our #5QW Interview series and on her personal website.
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