Background

Mary Czerwinski is a Research Area Manager of the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group.

Mary's research focuses primarily on emotion tracking, information worker task management, multitasking, and awareness systems 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. Here is a link to her curriculum vita.

Professional Activities

ACM SIG CHI Conference SAC, 2012
Computing Research Association Advisory Board, 2011-2013
University of Washington iSchool Adjunct Faculty member 2011-on
Interact 2011 PC
ACM UIST Technical Program Co-Chair, 2011
Interact 2011 PC
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.

Publications

2012

Danyel Fisher, Rob DeLine, Mary Czerwinski, and Steven Drucker, Interactions with Big Data Analytics, in ACM Interactions, ACM, May 2012
Jeremy T. Barksdale, Kori Inkpen, Mary Czerwinski, Aaron Hoff, Paul Johns, Asta Roseway, and Gina Venolia, Video Threads: Asynchronous Video Sharing for Temporally Distributed Teams, in CSCW 2012, ACM, February 2012
Daniel McDuff, Amy Karlson, Ashish Kapoor, Asta Roseway, and Mary Czerwinski, AffectAura: An Intelligent System for Emotional Memory, in CHI 2012, ACM, 2012

2011

Honglu Du, Kori Inkpen, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Mary Czerwinski, Paul Johns, Aaron Hoff, Asta Roseway, Sarah Morlidge, John Tang, and Tom Gross, VideoPal: Exploring Asynchronous Video-Messaging to Enable Cross-Cultural Friendships, in ECSCW 2011, Springer, 26 September 2011
Munmun de Choudhury, Scott Counts, and Czerwinski, Find Me the Right Content! Diversity-based Sampling of Social Media Content for Topic-centric Search. , Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media , July 2011
B. Byun, A. Awasthi, P. A. Chou, A. Kapoor, B. Lee, and M. Czerwinski, Honest Signals in Video Conferencing, in Int'l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), IEEE, July 2011
Munmun de Choudhury, Scott Counts, and Mary Czerwinski, Identifying relevant social media content: leveraging information diversity and user cognition, HT '11, June 2011
Neema Moraveji, Meredith Ringel Morris, Dan Morris, Mary Czerwinski, and Nathalie Riche, ClassSearch: Facilitating the Development of Web Search Skills through Social Learning, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, May 2011
Kori Inkpen, Honglu Du, Asta Roseway, Aaron Hoff, Paul Johns, Mary Czerwinski, Aaron Hoff, Paul Johns, Brian Meyers, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Tom Gross, and Peter Ljungstrand, VideoPal: An Asynchronous Video Based Communication System, in Demo at CSCW 2011, Microsoft Research, March 2011

2010

Petra Isenberg, Danyel Fisher, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kori Inkpen, and Mary Czerwinski, An Exploratory Study of Co-located Collaborative Visual Analytics around a Tabletop Display, in Proceedings of Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, November 2010
Kori Inkpen, Rajesh Hegde, Mary Czerwinski, and Zhengyou Zhang, Exploring Spatialized Audio & Video for Distributed Conversations, in CSCW 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2010
Kamal Jain, Yang Song, Li-wei He, and Mary Czerwinski, Evaluating the Unaccounted Cost of Distraction of Display Ads to the Users, in Web Science Conference 2010 (WebSci 2010), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010

2009

Mikkel R. Jakobsen, Roland Fernandez, Mary Czerwinski, Kori Inkpen, Olga Kulyk, and George G. Robertson, WIPDash: Work Item and People Dashboard for Software Development Teams, in 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2009), Springer Verlag, August 2009
George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Danyel Fisher, and Bongshin Lee, Selected Human Factors Issues in Information Visualization, in Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Sage, June 2009
Jose Eurico de Vasconcelos Filo, Kori Inkpen, and Mary Czerwinski, Image, Appearance and Vanity in the Use of Media Spaces and Videoconference Systems, in International ACM conference on Supporting group work (Group 2009), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., May 2009
Bongshin Lee, Greg Smith, George G. Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, and Desney S. Tan, FacetLens: Exposing Trends and Relationships to Support Sensemaking within Faceted Datasets, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009

2008

Kori Inkpen, Steven Whittaker, Mary Czerwinski, James Wallace, and Roland Fernandez, GroupBanter: Supporting Serendipitous Group Conversations with IM, in The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2008), Orlando, FL, November 2008
Danyel Fisher, David A. Maltz, Albert Greenberg, Xiaoyu Wang, Heather Warncke, George Robertson, and Mary Czerwinski, Using Visualization to Support Network and Application Management in a Data Center, in Internet Network Management Workshop at ICNP, October 2008
Amy Karlson, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, George Robertson, and Mary Czerwinski, Courier: A Collaborative Phone-Based File Exchange System, no. MSR-TR-2008-05, 2008
Krzysztof Gajos, Katherine Everitt, Desney Tan, Mary Czerwinski, and Daniel Weld, Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces, in Extended Abstracts of CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008
Jacob Biehl, William Baker, Brain Bailey, Desney Tan, Kori Inkpen, and Mary Czerwinski, IMPROMPTU: A New Interaction Framework for Supporting Collaboration in Multiple Display Environments and its Field Evaluation for Co-located Software Development, in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008
Desney S. Tan, Darren Gergle, Regan Mandryk, Kori Inkpen, Melanie Kellar, Kirstie Hawkey, and Mary Czerwinski, Using job-shop scheduling tasks for evaluating collocated collaboration, pp. 255-267, Springer Verlag, January 2008

2007

J. Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Cheng Ju, and Alex Acero, VoicePedia: Towards Speech-based Access to Unstructured Information, in Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, August 2007
AJ Brush, Brian Meyers, Desney Tan, and Mary Czerwinski, Understanding Memory Triggers for Task Tracking, in Extended Abstracts at CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
Desney Tan, Mary Czerwinski, Gordon Bell, Emma Berry, Jim Gemmell, Steve Hodges, Narinder Kapur, Brian Meyers, Nuria Oliver, George Robertson, and Ken Wood, Save Everything: Supporting Human Memory with a Personal Digital Lifetime Store, in Personal Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities (eds. William Jones and Jaime Teevan), 2007
Bongshin Lee, George G. Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, and Cynthia Sims Parr, CandidTree: Visualizing Structural Uncertainty in Similar Hierarchies, in Information Visualization, 2007
Jacob Biehl, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, George Robertson, and Brian Bailey, FASTDash: A visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams, in CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2007
Desney Tan, Darren Gergle, Regan Mandryk, Kori Inkpen, Melanie Kellar, Kirstie Hawkey, and Mary Czerwinski, Using Job-Shop Scheduling Tasks for Evaluating Collocated Communication, in Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Special Issue on User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Services for Human-Human Communication and Collaboration), 2007
George Robertson, Greg Smith, Patrick Baudisch, Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, and Desney Tan, New Frontiers in Desktop Task Management, in Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments (eds. Victor Kaptelinn and Mary Czerwinski), 2007

2006

Robert DeLine, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Gina Venolia, Steven Drucker, and George Robertson, Code Thumbnails: Using Spatial Memory to Navigate Source Code, in VLHCC '06: Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, September 2006
Brian Meyers, A.J. Brush, Steven Drucker, Marc A. Smith, and Mary Czerwinski, Dance Your Work Away: Exploring Step User Interfaces, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2006
Desney Tan, Mary Czerwinski, and George Robertson, Large Displays Enhance Optical Flow Cues and Narrow the Gender Gap in 3D Virtual Navigation, in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2006
Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Brian Meyers, Greg Smith, Daniel Robbins, and Desney Tan, Large Display Research Overview, in Extended Abstracts at CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Press, January 2006
Gonzalo Ramos, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Desney Tan, Patrick Baudisch, Ken Hinckley, Maneesh Agrawala, and Daniel Robbins, Tumble! Splat! Helping Users Access and Manipulate Occluded Content in 2D Drawings, in Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006, 2006
Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C. Marshall, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñonesis, Meredith M. Skeels, and Tiziana Catarci, Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and abundant storage, in Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 2006
Tara Matthews, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, and Desney Tan, Clipping Lists and Change Borders: Improving Multitasking Efficiency with Peripheral Information Design, in CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006
Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, George Robertson, and Desney Tan, FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2006
Amy Karlson, George Robertson, Daniel Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, and Greg Smith, FaThumb: A facet-based interface for mobile search, in Proceedings of CHI 2006, ACM Press, January 2006
Krzysztof Gajos, Mary Czerwinski, Desney Tan, and Daniel Weld, Exploring the Design Space for Adaptive Graphical User Interfaces, in Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006, 2006

2005

Robert DeLine, Mary Czerwinski, and George Robertson, Easing program comprehension by sharing navigation data, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centered Computing, September 2005
Desney Tan, Darren Gergle, and Mary Czerwinski, A Job-Shop Scheduling Task for Evaluating Coordination during Computer Supported Collaborative Work, no. MSR-TR-2005-107, August 2005
Robert DeLine, Amir Khella, Mary Czerwinski, and George Robertson, Towards understanding programs through wear-based filtering, in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, May 2005
Mary Czerwinski, Doug Gage, Jim Gemmell, Tiziana Catarci, Cathy Marshall, Manuel Perez-Quinonesis, and Meredith M. Skeels, Digital Memories & Ubiquitous Computing (breakout report), 27 January 2005
Desney S. Tan, Pedram Keyani, and Mary Czerwinski, Spy-Resistant Keyboard: Towards More Secure Password Entry on Publicly Observable Touch Screens, in OZCHI 2005, 2005
Bongshin Lee, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, and Benjamin B Bederson, Understanding Research Trends in Conferences using PaperLens, in Extended Abstracts of CHI, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2005
George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Patrick Baudisch, Brian Meyers, Dan Robbins, Greg Smith, and Desney Tan, Large Display User Experience, in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2005
Baudisch, P., Czerwinski, M., Meyers, B., Robbins, D., Robertson, G., Smith, G., Tan, and D., The Large-Display User Experience, in Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, vol. 25, January 2005

2004

Dugald Hutchings, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski, and George Robertson, Display space usage and window management operation comparisons between single monitor and multiple monitor users, in Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, 2004
Bongshin Lee, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, and Benjamin B Bederson, Understanding Eight Years of InfoVis Conferences using PaperLens, in Posters Compendium of InfoVis, 2004
George Robertson, Eric Horvitz, Mary Czerwinski, Dugald Hutchings, Patrick Baudisch, Daniel Robbins, and Greg Smith, Scalable Fabric: Flexible task management, in Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, ACM Press, January 2004

2003

John C. Platt, Mary Czerwinski, and Brent Field, PhotoTOC: Automatic Clustering for Browsing Personal Photographs, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., December 2003
Tim Regan, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, and Greg Smith, Bumping Windows between Monitors, no. MSR-TR-2003-13, March 2003
Greg Smith, Patrick Bausdich, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, and Donna Andrews, GroupBar: The TaskBar Evolved, in (2003) OZCHI 2003 Conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Human Factors Society of Australia, January 2003
Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, Tim Regan, Brian Meyers, George Robertson, and Gary Starkweather, Toward characterizing the productivity benefits of very large displays, in (2003) Interact 2003, IOS Press, 2003
Patrick Baudisch, Edward Cutrell, Dan Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Peter Tandler, Benjamin Bederson, and Alex Zierlinger, Drag-and-Pop and Drag-and-Pick: Techniques for Accessing Remote Screen Content on Touch- and Pen-Operated Systems, in Human-Computer Interaction--INTERACT '03, pp. 57-64, IOS Press, 2003

2002

George Robertson, Kim Cameron, Mary Czerwinski, and Daniel Robbins, Animated Visualization of Multiple Intersecting Hierarchies, in Journal of Information Visualization, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 50-65, March 2002
John C. Platt, Mary Czerwinski, and Brent Field, PhotoTOC: Automatic Clustering for Browsing Personal Photographs, no. MSR-TR-2002-17, February 2002
George Robertson, Kim Cameron, Mary Czerwinski, and Daniel Robbins, Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersecting hierarchies, in CHI '02: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, January 2002

2001

Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, and Edward Cutrell, Subjective Duration Assessment: An Implicit Probe for Software Usability, in IHM-HCI 2001 Conference, September 2001
Scott LeeTiernan, Edward Cutrell, Mary Czerwinski, and Hunter Hoffman, Effective Notification Systems Depend On User Trust, IOS Press, July 2001
Desney S. Tan, George G. Robertson, and Mary Czerwinski, Exploring 3D Navigation: Combining Speed-coupled Flying with Orbiting, in CHI 2001, Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2001
Edward Cutrell, Mary Czerwinski, and Eric Horvitz, Notification, Disruption, and Memory: Effects of Messaging Interruptions on Memory and Performance, in Human-Computer Interaction--Interact '01, IOS Press, 2001

2000

Mary Czerwinski, Edward Cutrell, and Eric Horvitz, Instant Messaging and Interruption: Influence of Task Type on Performance, pp. 356-361, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 2000
Edward Cutrell, Mary Czerwinski, and Eric Horvitz, Effects of Instant Messaging Interruptions on Computing Tasks, in Extended Abstracts of CHI ’2000, Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2000
George Robertson, Maarten van Dantzich, Daniel Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Ken Hinckley, Kirsten Risden, David Thiel, and Vadim Gorokhovsky, The Task Gallery: a 3D window manager, in CHI '00: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, January 2000
Mary Czerwinski, Edward Cutrell, and Eric Horvitz, Instant Messaging: Effects of Relevance and Timing, in People and Computers XIV: Proceedings of HCI 2000, 2000
Edward B. Cutrell, Mary Czerwinski, and Eric Horvitz, Effects of instant messaging interruptions on computing tasks, in CHI '00: CHI '00 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2000

1999

George Robertson, Maarten Van Dantzich, Mary Czerwinski, Scott Tiernan, Susan Dumais, and Susan Dziadosz, Visualizing Implicit Queries For Information Management and Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 1999

1998

Ken Hinckley, Mary Czerwinski, and Mike Sinclair, Interaction and Modeling Techniques for Desktop Two Handed Input, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 1998
Elizabeth Loftus, Hunter Hoffman, Joe Kubiniec, Kristen Risden, Lynda Hamilton, Mary Czerwinski, Nancy Mickel, and Stephanie Worley, Interactive advertising: Patterns of use and effectiveness, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 1998
Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, John Krumm, Mary Czerwinski, and Steve Shafer, The New EasyLiving Project at Microsoft Research, January 1998
George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Kevin Larson, Daniel C. Robbins, David Thiel, and Maarten van Dantzich, Data mountain: using spatial memory for document management, in UIST '98: Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, January 1998

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