Kori Marie Inkpen (also published as Kori Inkpen Quinn) is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction at

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. A consistent theme of her research has been the interaction of children with computers. Inkpen is a 1992 graduate of

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the fou ...

, and completed her Ph.D. in 1997 at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

(UBC). At UBC, she credits

Maria Klawe Maria Margaret Klawe ( ; born 1951) is a computer scientist and the fifth president of Harvey Mudd College (since July 1, 2006). Born in Toronto in 1951, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2009. She was previously Dean of the School of En ...

and a project led by Klawe on educational electronic games for sparking her interest in human-computer interaction and encouraging her to continue in academic computer science. Her dissertation, ''Adapting the Human-Computer Interface to Support Collaborative Learning Environments'', was jointly supervised by Klawe and Kellogg S. Booth. After postdoctoral research at the

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, she was a faculty member at

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from 1998 to 2001 and at

from 2001 to 2007 before joining Microsoft in 2008. In 2017 the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society gave her their CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award "for her many contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, especially her work on collaboration technologies".

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A Conversation with the CHCCS 2017 Achievement Award Winner: Kori Inkpen, Microsoft Research
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