About
Mary Czerwinski is a Research Manager of the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group.
Mary’s research focuses primarily on emotion tracking, information worker task management, health and wellness for individuals and groups. Her background is in visual attention and multitasking. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington. Mary was awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award, was inducted into the CHI Academy, and became an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2010. Mary became a Fellow of the ACM in 2016. She also received the Distinguished Alumni award from Indiana University’s Brain and Psychological Sciences department in 2014 and will receive a Distinguished Alumni award from the College of Arts and Sciences from Indiana in February, 2018.
In the News
4 Interesting New Features From Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Update // Fortune, April 30, 2018
The new Timeline feature is essentially a way for people to better locate specific files, photos, or videos on their PCs.
Make the most of your time with the new Windows 10 update // Windows Blog, April 27, 2018
We all get the same 24 hours. And now, more than ever, it seems like it’s never enough. People feel more overwhelmed than ever before and pretty much all of us would love more time – not necessarily time to do more, but time to do what we love. At Microsoft, we want to help you do just that.
Microsoft's Windows 10 tries to stop pointless multi-tasking // USA Today, April 27, 2018
The latest update to Windows tackles productivity in several useful, if not earth-shattering or always original ways. A new Timeline, for example, promises to make it easy for you to find stuff you’ve been working on within the past 30 days without slogging through file folders or emails. It doesn’t matter if that prior work took place on a Windows 10 PC, or through the Microsoft Edge browser or Office 365 on another computer, or even on an iOS or Android device.
Microsoft Windows 10 April 2018 Update aims to shield us from notifications // MSN, April 27, 2018
Notifications are both one of the most revolutionary inventions of the mobile age, and one of the most hated features on our devices. Focus Assist helps with that: You can set times when you don't want notifications to bother you, such as during key work hours or when you plug in a second display for a presentation or when you're playing a game. During those periods, Windows will keep alerts at bay.
Microsoft is fixing a simple reason why voice assistants are so bad // Quartz Media, August 22, 2017
Microsoft, whose virtual assistant Cortana operates on Windows and as a cross-platform mobile app, is trying to smarten up our dumb bots by making a new dataset available to the public, letting future AI analyze how humans would do the same tasks that virtual assistants handle every day. The dataset (pdf) consists of 22 pairs of humans talking to each other—one person without the internet asking for information, and another taking those questions and trying to come up with a good response.
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In the News
- Feeling mad? New devices can sense your mood and tell — or even text — others (Washington Post).
- The Future of Affective Computing (video from Channel 9)
- Why Busywork Makes You Happy (Forbes)
- Geraldine Fitzpatrick’s podcast interview with me about the Business of Doing Work
Professional Activities
- Pervasive Health 2017 Co-Chair
- DARPA ISAT Committee 2014-on
- CHI 2015 AC
- Pervasive Health 2013 Co-Chair
- Computing Research Association Advisory Board, 2011-2013, 2014-2016
- CHI 2012 AC
- University of Washington iSchool Adjunct Faculty member 2011-on
- Interact 2011 PC
- ACM UIST Technical Program Co-Chair, 2011
- ACM SIG CHI Conference SAC, 2010
- ACM SIGCHI Executive Vice-President, 2006-2009
- Creativity and Cognition 2009 Graduate Symposium Co-Chair
- CHI 2008 Conference Co-Chair
- Georgia Tech GVU Advisory Board
- ACM SIGCHI Executive Vice-President, 2003-2006
- Creativity and Cognition 2007 Graduate Symposium Co-Chair
- Interact 2007 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair
- UIST 2005 Conference Co-Chair
- Interact 2005 Tutorials Co-Chair
- UIST 2004 Program Committee
- Dean’s Advisory Board for the Indiana University School of Informatics since 2004
- Advisory Board for Indiana University Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Co-Editor for IJHCS Special Issue on Notifications Design and Evaluation
- AVI 2004 Program Committee
- UIST 2003 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair
- Information Visualization editorial board member since 2003
- CHI 2003 and 2004 Associate Chair
- CHI 2002 Workshop Co-Chair
- Co-Editor for a Special Issue of IJHCS on Empirical Studies of Information Visualizations
- ACM SIGCHI Communications Vice-President 2001-2002
- CHI 2000 Papers Co-chair
- Co-Editor for a Special Issue of JASIS on Individual Differences in Virtual Environments
- Co-Editor for a Special Issue of VR on Human Factors in Virtual Reality
- CHI’98 Design Briefings Co-chair
- HFES CSTG Secretary/Treasurer 1995-1997
- University of Washington Psychology Department affiliate faculty member 1996-2009
