Genevieve Bell is an Australian cultural anthropologist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice research and technological development, and for being an industry pioneer of the user experience field.
26 Facts About Genevieve Bell
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Genevieve Bell holds the university's Florence Violet McKenzie Chair and is the first SRI International Engelbart Distinguished Fellow.
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Genevieve Bell is a Senior Fellow and Vice President at Intel.
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Daughter of renowned Australian anthropologist, Diane Bell, Genevieve Bell was born in Sydney and raised in a range of Australian communities, including Melbourne, Canberra, and in several Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory.
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Genevieve Bell attended university in the United States, where she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Philosophy in anthropology.
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Genevieve Bell went on to attend Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for graduate studies.
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From 1996 to 1998, Genevieve Bell taught anthropology and Native American Studies at Stanford University, in both the department of anthropology and department of anthropological sciences, as well as in the continuing studies program.
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Genevieve Bell was recruited from her faculty position by Intel Corporation in 1998 to help build out their nascent social-science research competency in the advanced research and development labs.
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Genevieve Bell was based at one of the company's campuses in Hillsboro, Oregon, where she worked as a cultural anthropologist studying how different cultures around the globe used technology.
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Genevieve Bell started Intel's first User Experience Group in 2005, as part of Intel's Digital Home Group.
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Genevieve Bell named her an Intel Fellow, their highest technical rank, in November 2008 for her work in the Digital Home Group.
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Genevieve Bell rejoined the advanced research and development labs in 2010, when Intel made her the director of their newly forming User Experience Research group.
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In 2012, Genevieve Bell was inducted to the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame and in 2013, she was named Anita Borg's Women of Vision in Leadership.
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Genevieve Bell's first book, Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, written in collaboration with Paul Dourish, is an exploration of the social and cultural aspects of ubiquitous computing, with a particular focus on the disciplinary and methodological issues that have shaped the ubiquitous computing research agenda.
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Genevieve Bell was a Thinker in Residence for South Australia from 2008 to 2010.
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Genevieve Bell's visiting appointment was intended to help guide government policy surrounding a new national broadband initiative.
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Genevieve Bell conducted ethnographic research and developed new innovative research methods to identify barriers to adoption and drivers around broadband uptake.
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Genevieve Bell is the university's inaugural appointee of the Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, named in honour of Australia's first female electrical engineer.
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In October 2017, Genevieve Bell presented the ABC's 2017 Boyer Lectures, interrogating what it means to be human, and Australian, in a digital world.
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Genevieve Bell joins the list of prominent Australians selected each year by the ABC since 1959 to present the annual Boyer Lectures and stimulate a national conversation on social, cultural and political issues of contemporary Australian society.
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At the 2016 Advance Awards, Genevieve Bell received the Award for Technology Innovation and Overall 2016 Advance Global Australian Award.
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In October 2018, Genevieve Bell was elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a not-for-profit organisation which brings together leading minds in technology and engineering from academia, government and industry sectors.
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Genevieve Bell was appointed to the National Science and Technology Advisory Council among other members including Nobel Laureate and ANU Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt and Chair Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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In January 2019, Genevieve Bell was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Board.
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On January 22,2020, Genevieve Bell was named the first Engelbart Distinguished Fellow by SRI International.
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Shortly after, Genevieve Bell was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for distinguished service to education, particularly to the social sciences and cultural anthropology.