Sarah Ann Douglas
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
Sarah Ann Douglas (born January 25, 1944, in Asheville, North Carolina) is a distinguished computer scientist, known for her work in human-computer interaction (HCI), a field of computer science that she has helped pioneer, and, in particular, pointing devices and haptic interactions, WWW interfaces and bioinformatics, and visualization and visual interfaces. She is a Professor Emerita of Computer and Information Science{{cite web|title=Faculty|url=http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/People/Faculty/|website=Department of Computer and Information Sciences|publisher=University of Oregon|accessdate=27 February 2016}} and a member of the Computational Science Institute{{cite web|title=Faculty|url=https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Research/Computational_Science.php|website=Computational Science|publisher=University of Oregon}} at the University of Oregon.
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| birth_place = Asheville, North Carolina
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| nationality = American
| fields = Computer Science
| workplaces = University of Oregon
| alma_mater = A. B., University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1983
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| doctoral_advisor = Thomas P. Moran
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Early life and education
Sarah Douglas was born in Asheville, North Carolina. She lived in Bermuda and the Philippines, as well as in many states in the U.S. During her high school years in Palo Alto, California, she was recruited by the high school district to learn how to program a computer. She began her undergraduate career at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, on a full scholarship, transferred to University of California, Berkeley in her junior year, and graduated from UC Berkeley in 1966 with an A.B. degree in philosophy.
Career
Upon her graduation from college she left the United States and lived in Europe for 18 months, settling in Majorca, Spain for much of that time. Upon returning to the United States, she worked as a professional programmer, systems analyst, Director of Software Development and Director at Computing Systems at Cabrillo College and San Jose State University in California. She returned to graduate school at Stanford University in 1979 and earned a Ph.D. in cognitive ergonomics (computer science, psychology, and engineering) from Stanford in 1983. During her tenure at Stanford, Douglas also served as a research intern at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC). Upon her graduation from Stanford, she joined the faculty of the Department of Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon, where she remained until her retirement in 2011. At Oregon, Douglas was a member of the Cognitive and Decision Sciences Institute(Director, 1995–1998) and led the technology team that conceived of and built the Zebrafish Information Network, an international online multimedia database of information for zebrafish researchers.{{cite web|title=ZFIN db Information|url=https://wiki.zfin.org/display/general/ZFIN+db+information|website=wiki.zfin.org|publisher=Zebrafish Information Network|accessdate=10 November 2017}}{{cite journal|last1=Westerfield|first1=Monte|last2=Doerry|first2=Eckehard|last3=Kirkpatrick|first3=Arthur E.|last4=Driever|first4=Wolfgang|last5=Douglas|first5=Sarah Ann|title=An on-line database for zebrafish development and genetics|journal= Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology|date=1997|volume=8|issue=5|pages=477–488|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10849521/8/5?sdc=2|accessdate=10 November 2017|doi=10.1006/scdb.1997.0173|pmid=9441953|url-access=subscription}} She is the author of over 70 technical papers and a research monograph, The Ergonomics of Pointing Devices;{{cite book|last1=Douglas|first1=Sarah A.|last2=Mithal|first2=Anant Kartik|title=The Ergonomics of Computer Pointing Devices|date=1997|publisher=Springer-Verlag|location=London|isbn=978-3-540-19986-1|pages=233|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540199861#aboutBook|accessdate=9 November 2017}} her work has been highly cited.{{cite web|title=Citations of Sarah Douglas|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ecPAWS8AAAAJ&hl=en|website=Google Scholar|accessdate=10 November 2017}}
Douglas served on the editorial board of the journal Interacting with Computers (1996–2005),{{cite journal|title=Interacting with Computing|url=https://academic.oup.com/iwc/article-abstract/9/1/iii/686375?redirectedFrom=fulltext|journal=Interacting with Computers| date=August 1997 | volume=9 | issue=1 |publisher=Oxford University Press| doi=10.1016/S0953-5438(97)90000-X |accessdate=10 November 2017|url-access=subscription}} and as a reviewer for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. At the national level she was the Chair of the Human-Computer Interaction Knowledge Focus Group for the IEEE-ACM Computing Curriculum 2001.{{cite web|title=Computing Curricula 2001 Computer Science|url=https://www.computer.org/cms/professional-education/pdf/ComputingCurricula2001-ComputerScience.pdf|website=www.computer.org/cms|publisher=IEEE|accessdate=9 November 2017}}
Honors and awards
Douglas was the recipient of grants and awards from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Fund for the Improvement of Post- Secondary Education, Computer Research Association, Keck Foundation, US West, Apple Computer, and Intel Corp.{{cite web|title=Profile of Sarah Douglas at the University of Oregon|url=https://cs.uoregon.edu/profile/douglas/|website=cs.uoregon.edu|publisher=University of Oregon|accessdate=9 November 2017}}
Professor Douglas was elected to the European Academy of Sciences in 2002. She was chair of the Human-Computer Interaction Knowledge Focus Group for the ACM-IEEE Curriculum 2001.{{cite journal|title=Incorporating Human-Computer Interaction into the undergraduate computer science curriculum|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=563419|journal=ACM SIGCSE Bulletin|year = 2002|publisher=ACM|doi = 10.1145/563517.563419|accessdate=28 February 2016|last1 = Douglas|first1 = Sarah|last2 = Tremaine|first2 = Marilyn|last3 = Leventhal|first3 = Laura|last4 = Wills|first4 = Craig E.|last5 = Manaris|first5 = Bill|volume = 34|pages = 211–212|url-access = subscription}} She was appointed to Human Sciences Special Editorial Board of the British Computer Society journal Interacting with Computers in 1996.{{cite web|title=Table of Contents|url=http://iwc.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/1.toc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306113946/http://iwc.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/1.toc|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 March 2015|website=Interacting with Computers|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=28 February 2016}}
Douglas was chosen for the Charles Johnson Memorial Award for "exceptional service to the university and the community" by the University of Oregon Faculty in June 1995. She received an
NSF/CRA Distributed Mentor award (Summer 1994), an
EDUCOM 1992 Distinguished Natural Science Curriculum Award and was appointed to
Fulbright lectureship in India during 1991–1992.{{cite web|title=Directory of American Fulbright Scholars, 1991-92|url=http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/fulbrightdirectories/1991%20-%201992.pdf|website=University of Arkansas Libraries|publisher=Council for International Exchange of Scholars|accessdate=28 February 2016}}
References
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External links
- [https://cs.uoregon.edu/profile/douglas/ Sarah Douglas' Profile at the University of Oregon]
- [http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~douglas/ Sarah Douglas' website at the University of Oregon]
- [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Douglas5/ Sarah A. Douglas on ResearchNet]
- {{google scholar id|ecPAWS8AAAAJ}}
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