MIT Media Lab’s Post

Media Lab Professor Pattie Maes, who leads the Fluid Interfaces research group, has received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award, which recognizes her advocacy for placing human agency at the center of human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence research. “I am honored to be recognized by the ACM community,” Professor Maes says, “especially given that it can be difficult sometimes for researchers doing highly interdisciplinary research to be appreciated, even though some of the most impactful innovations often emerge from that style of research.” Media Lab Director Dava Newman says, “As a senior faculty member, Pattie is an integral member of the Media Lab, MIT, and larger HCI communities. Her contributions to several different fields, alongside her unwavering commitment to enhancing the human experience in her work, is exemplary of not only the Media Lab’s interdisciplinary spirit, but also our core mission: to create transformative technologies and systems that enable people to reimagine and redesign their lives. We all celebrate this well-deserved recognition for Pattie!”