Ann Blandford is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at University College London and Director of the UCL Institute of Digital Health. Her research focuses on the design and use of interactive technology in healthcare delivery, and particularly on how to design systems that fit well in their context of use and for their intended purposes. She has published widely on the design and situated use of interactive health technologies, on how technology can be designed to better support people's needs and on modelling situated interactions. She has supervised over 20 Ph.D. student projects to completion, and around 100 MSc student dissertations.