Mary Czerwinski is a Senior Researcher in the Large Display User Experience group.
Background
Mary's research focuses primarily on the large displays, novel information visualization, the effect of notifications while multitasking, and reminder systems. Her background is in visual attention and user interface design. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Indiana University. Here is a link to her vita.
Professional Activities
- IJHCS Special Issue on Notifications Design and Evaluation.
- ACM SIGCHI Vice Chair of Communications.
- Information Visualization editorial board member (1st Issue Oct., 2001). .
- CHI 2003 Associate Chair.
- CHI 2002 Workshop Co-Chair.
- Co-Editor for a Special Issue of IJHCS on Empirical Studies of Information Visualizations.
- 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.
Recent Papers, Notes and Presentations
2003
Tan, D.S.,Czerwinski, M., & Robertson, G.G. (2003). Women Go with the (Optical) Flow. To appear in Proceedings of CHI 2003, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. *, ACM press. Copyright © 2003 by ACM, Inc.
2002
Czerwinski, M. (2002). Humans in HCI. Chapter in Jacko, J. & Sears, A. (Eds.) Handbook of HCI, pp. 19-21, Erlbaum: NJ.
Czerwinski, M. & Larson, K. (2002). Cognition and the Web: Moving from theory to design. Chapter in Ratner, J. (Ed.), Human Factors and Web Development, pp. 147-165, Erlbaum: NJ.
Czerwinski, M. & Horvitz, E. (2002). Memory for Daily Computing Events. In Culwin, F. (Ed.), Proceedings of People and Computers XVI, Volume I, pp. *.
Van Dantzich, M., Robbins, D., Horvitz, E. & Czerwinski, M. (2002). Scope: Providing awareness of multiple notifications at a glance. In Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces 2002, Trento, Italy, May, 2002.
Czerwinski, M., Tan, D.S. & Robertson, G.G. (2002). Women take a wider view. In Proceedings of CHI 2002, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 195-202, ACM press. Copyright © 2002 by ACM, Inc.
Robertson, G.G., Cameron, K. Czerwinski, M. & Robbins, D. (2002). Polyarchy Visualization: Visualizing multiple intersecting hierarchies. In Proceedings of CHI 2002, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 423-430, ACM press. Copyright © 2002 by ACM, Inc.
Robertson, G.G., Cameron, K., Czerwinski, M. & Robbins, D. (2002). Polyarchy Visualization: Visualizing multiple intersecting hierarchies. Information Visualization, 1(1), p.50-65.
2001
Czerwinski, M., Horvitz, E. & Cutrell, E. (2001). Subjective Duration Assessment: An Implicit Probe for Software Usability. In Proceedings of IHM-HCI 2001 Conference, Volume 2, (September, 2001, Lille, France), p. 167-170.
S. T. Dumais and M. P. Czerwinski (2001). Building bridges from theory to practice. In HCI International 2001, 9th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Session on Contributions of Basic Research in Psychology to Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction. August 2001.
Tan, D.S., Robertson, G.G. & Czerwinski, M. (2001). Exploring 3D Navigation: Combining Speed-Coupled Flying with Orbiting. In Proceedings of CHI 2001, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Seattle, WA April 1-6, 2001), pp. 418-424, ACM press. Copyright © 2001 by ACM, Inc.
Tiernan, S.L., Cutrell, E., & Czerwinski, M. (2001). Effective Notification Systems Depend on User Trust, In Human-Computer Interaction--Interact '01, Hirose, M. (Ed.), IOS Press, pp.684-685. Copyright IFIP, 2001.
Cutrell, E., Czerwinski, M. & Horvitz, E. (2001). Notification, Disruption and Memory: Effects of Messaging Interruptions on Memory and Performance. In Human-Computer Interaction--Interact '01, Hirose, M. (Ed.), IOS Press, pp.263-269. Copyright IFIP, 2001.
Wenyin, L., Dumais, S., Sun, Y., Zhang, H., Czerwinski, M. & Field, B. (2001). Semi-Automatic Image Annotation. In Human-Computer Interaction--Interact '01, Hirose, M. (Ed.), IOS Press, pp.326-333. Copyright IFIP, 2001.
2000
Czerwinski, M., Cutrell, E. & Horvitz, E. (2000). Instant Messaging and Interruption: Influence of Task Type on Performance, In Paris, C., Ozkan, N., Howard, S. and Lu, S. (Ed's.), OZCHI 2000 Conference Proceedings, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 4-8, pp. 356-361.
Czerwinski, M., Cutrell, E. & Horvitz, E. (2000). Instant Messaging: Effects of Relevance and Time, In S. Turner, P. Turner (Eds), People and Computers XIV: Proceedings of HCI 2000, Vol. 2, British Computer Society, p. 71-76.
Risden, K., Czerwinski, M., Munzner, T. & Cook, D. (2000). An Initial Examination of Ease of Use for 2D and 3D Information Visualizations of Web Content. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies: Special Issue on Empirical Evaluations of Information Visualizations, 53(5), 695-714. Copyright © 2000 by International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
Chen, C., & Czerwinski, M. (2000). Empirical Evaluation of Information Visualisations: An Introduction. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5), 631-635.Copyright © 2000 by International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
Chen, C., Czerwinski, M. & Macredie, R. (2000). Individual differences in virtual environments--Introduction and Overview. In Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(6), 499-507.Copyright © 2000 by International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
Robertson, G.G. et al. (2000). The Task Gallery: A 3D Windows Manager. In Proceedings of CHI ’2000, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (The Hague, April 1-6, 2000), pp. 494-501, ACM press. Copyright © 2000 by ACM, Inc.
Larson, K., van Dantzich, M., Czerwinski, M. & Robertson, G. (2000). Text in 3D: Some Legibility Results. In Extended Abstracts of CHI ’2000, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (The Hague, April 1-6, 2000), ACM press, 145-146. Copyright © 2000 by ACM, Inc.
Cutrell, E., Czerwinski, M. & Horvitz, E. (2000). Effects of Instant Messaging Interruptions on Computing Tasks. In Extended Abstracts of CHI ’2000, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (The Hague, April 1-6, 2000), ACM press, 99-100. Copyright © 2000 by ACM, Inc.
1999
Czerwinski, M. (1999). Research Methods for Next Generation HCI. In Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction International, 1999, Munich, August 21-27.
Czerwinski, M. (1999). Trends in Future Web Designs. In Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction International, 1999, Munich, August 21-27.
Czerwinski, M., van Dantzich, M., Robertson, G.G. & Hoffman, H. (1999). The contribution of thumbnail image, mouse-over text and spatial location memory to web page retrieval in 3D. In Sasse, A. & Johnson, C. (Eds), Human-Computer Interaction--Proceedings of Interact '99, Edinburgh, Scotland, IOS press, pp. 163-170.
Czerwinski, M. & Risden, K. (1999). Keynote Speech at Web Design and Development '99, June 30th, San Francisco.
Muller, M.J. & Czerwinski, M. (1999). Organizing usability work to fit the full product range. In Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Communications of the ACM, May, 42 (5), pp.87-90. Copyright © 1999 by ACM, Inc.
Czerwinski, M. & Larson, K. (1999). Web design: What’s next for the HCI professional? Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Interactions, March-April, v. V1-2. Copyright © 1999 by ACM, Inc.
Visualizing Implicit Queries for Information Management and Retrieval, Czerwinski, M., Dumais, S.T., Robertson, G.G., Dziadosz, S., Tiernan, S. and van Dantzich, M. In Proceedings of CHI ’99, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Pittsburgh, May 17-20, 1999), ACM press. Copyright © 1999 by ACM, Inc.
1998
The New EasyLiving Project at Microsoft Research, Steve Shafer, John Krumm, Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski, and Daniel Robbins, Joint DARPA/NIST Smart Spaces Workshop, July 30-31, 1998, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Data Mountain: Using Spatial Memory for Document Management, Robertson, G. , Czerwinski, M., Larson, K., Robbins, D., Thiel, D. & van Dantzich, M. In Proceedings of UIST '98, 11th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 153-162. Copyright © 1998 by ACM, Inc.
Czerwinski, M., Larson, K., & Robbins, D. (1998). Designing for Navigating Personal Web Information: Retrieval Cues. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society's 42nd Annual Meeting, 458-462. Copyright © 1998 by ACM, Inc.
Spatial Ability and Visual Navigation: An Empirical Study (1997), In The New Review for Hypertext and Multimedia, Volume 3, pp. 40-66.
From Latent Semantics to Spatial Hypertext--An Integrated Approach, In Hypertext '98, The Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, pp. 77-86. Copyright © 1998 by ACM, Inc.
Web Page Design: Implications of Memory, Structure and Scent for Information Retrieval, In Proceedings of CHI ’98, Human Factors in Computing Systems (LA, April 21-23, 1998), ACM press, 25-32. Copyright © 1998 by ACM, Inc.
Hinckley, K., Czerwinski, M. & Sinclair, M. (1998). Interaction and Modeling Techniques for Desktop Two-Handed Input More than a Mouse. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 1998 p.49-58. Copyright © 1999 by ACM, Inc.
Interactive advertising: Patterns of use and effectiveness, In Proceedings of CHI ’98, Human Factors in Computing Systems (LA, April 21-23, 1998), ACM press, 219-224. Copyright © 1998 by ACM, Inc.
The role of usability research in designing children's products, Hanna, L., Risden, K., Czerwinski, M. and Alexander, K. Chapter in A. Druin's (Ed.) The Design of Children's Technology, 1998, Morgan Kaufman.
1997
The New Web Browsers: They're Cool but Are They Useful? Powerpoint Slides from a presentation by Czerwinski, M. and Larson, K. In H. Thimbleby, B. O'Conaill and P. Thomas (eds), People and Computers XII: Proceedings of HCI'97, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1997.
Web Usability Research at Microsoft Corporation Kanerva, A., Keeker, K., Risden, K., Schuh, E. & Czerwinski, M. In J. Ratner, E. Grosse and C. Forsythe (eds.) Human Factors for World Wide Web Development, Lawrence Erlbaum, New York, United States of America, 1997.
Quantifying Desktop Immersion In Proceedings of UIST '97, 10th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 11-19. Copyright © 1997 by ACM, Inc.
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