In 2003, Chignell founded Vocalage Inc.,[3] a company that does usability consulting, outsourced research, and software development.
He participated in a 2003 experiment which gave doctors online access to medical databases through a handheld iPAQ PC, which led to changes in the decisions the doctors made.[4][5]
Chignell was the general chair of ACM Hypertext 2010.[6]
Abrams, David, Ronald Baecker, and Mark Chignell. "Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization." In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, vol. 98, pp. 41–48. 1998.
Parsaye, Kamran, Mark Chignell, and Setrag Khoshafian. "Intelligent databases. Object-oriented, deductive hypermedia technologies." New York: Wiley, 1989 (1989).
Parsaye, Kamran, and Mark Chignell. "Expert systems for experts." Earth Systems and Environment (1988).
Zhao, Shengdong, Pierre Dragicevic, Mark Chignell, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Patrick Baudisch. "Earpod: eyes-free menu selection using touch input and reactive audio feedback." In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1395–1404. ACM, 2007.
Fitzmaurice, George W., Shumin Zhai, and Mark H. Chignell. "Virtual reality for palmtop computers." ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 11, no. 3 (1993): 197–218.