D. Austin Henderson is a Canadian computer scientist who pioneered work in

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. He chaired one of the first

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conferences in 1985. He was chair of ACM SIGCHI, the special interest group in computer-human interaction from 1991 to 1993 He is an inductee of the

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Austin Henderson's home page
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