Jenny Preece

Jenny Preece
Alma materOpen University
AwardsACM SIGCHI
Scientific career
FieldsHuman–computer interaction, Computer-mediated communication, Citizen Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral advisorTimothy O'Shea

Jenny Preece is an American academic who is the Dean Emerita (2005–2015) of the College of Information Studies, a Professor at the University of Maryland, and a member of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab. She researches online communities and is known for her work on what makes such a community successful, and how usability factors interact with sociability in online communities.

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