Pattie Maes, the Professor of arts and sciences of the media of Girmeshausen MIT and the head of the research group on fluid interfaces within MIT Media Lab, received the 2025 ACM Sigchi Lifetime Research Award. She will accept the price at Chi 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, in April.
The life research price is awarded to individuals whose research on human-computer interaction (HCI) is considered fundamental and influential for the field. The recipients are selected according to their cumulative contributions, their influence on the work of others, new research developments and their active participant in the association for computing machinery on computer-human interaction (ACM sigchi).
His appointment recognizes his plea to place the human agency at the center of the search for artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence. Rather than replacing human capacities, Maes has pleaded for ways whose human capacities can be supported or improved by the integration of AI.
Pioneer of the concept of software agents in the 1990s, the work of Maes was always located at the intersection of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence and contributed to the foundations of today's online experience. His article “Social information filtering: algorithms to automate” word of mouth “” From Chi 95, co-written with the graduate student Upendra Shardanand, is the second most cited article in ACM Sigchi.
Beyond her contributions in the desk-based interaction, she has a vast work in the field of new portable devices that improve human experience, for example by supporting memory, learning, decision-making or health. Thanks to an interdisciplinary approach, Maes explored accessible and ethical conceptions while emphasizing the need for a man -centered approach.
“As a member of the main faculty, Pattie is a full member of the media, MIT and largest HCI communities,” said Dava Newman, director of the media laboratory. “His contributions to several different fields, alongside his unshakable commitment to improving human experience in his work, is exemplary not only of the interdisciplinary spirit of the media laboratory, but also of our main mission: to create technologies and transformative systems that allow people to reinvent and rethink their lives. We all celebrate this well -deserved recognition for Pattie! ”
Maes is the second professor of receiving this honor, joining her Hiroshi Ishii media laboratory colleagueProfessor of Jerome B. Wiesner of the Arts and Media Sciences at MIT and head of the Research Group on the Tangible Media.
“I am honored to be recognized by the ACM community, especially since it can be difficult for researchers who do very interdisciplinary research to appreciate, even if some of the most impactful innovations often emerge from this style of research,” comments Maes.
