Gloria Janet Mark is an American psychologist. She is Chancellor's professor in the Department of
Informatics
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at
University of California, Irvine
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.
Gloria Mark's CV; accessed March 26, 2018 She is the author of the forthcoming book, ''
Attention span, Attention Span''
'','' has published over 200 scientific research articles
Gloria Mark's Bio; accessed March 26, 2018 and is noted for her research on
Social computing
Social computing is an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It is based on creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and tech ...
and the social impacts of
Digital media
Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...
. In 2017, she was inducted into the
CHI Academy The CHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–8 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative co ...
for her contributions to the field of
Human-computer interaction.
SIGCHI Awards; accessed March 26, 2018
Education
She earned her PhD in
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
from
Columbia University
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in 1991 and her M.S. in
biostatistics
Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experime ...
from the
University of Michigan
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Career and research
Research
Mark is an active researcher on human-computer interaction with her primary research revolving around social computing
Social computing is an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It is based on creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and tech ...
.[ In particular, her research interests have led to a variety of investigations of individuals and their ]workplace
A workplace is a location where someone Work (human activity), works, for their employer or themselves, a place of employment. Such a place can range from a Small office/home office, home office to a large office building or factory. For Indust ...
environment.
Some of her most notable findings include the effects of multitasking on millennial college students in the digital workplace. Correlations were drawn from stress
Stress may refer to:
Science and medicine
* Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
* Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase ...
, time spent at a computer and multitasking as there was a measure of the subjects’ mood and stress using biosensors
A biosensor is an analytical device, used for the detection of a chemical substance, that combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector.
The ''sensitive biological element'', e.g. tissue, microorganisms, organelles, cell recep ...
and logging computer activity.
Stress and Multitasking in Everyday College Life: An Empirical Study of Online Activity; accessed March 27, 2018 In 2004, Mark published a CHI paper that argued that the design of information technology
Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...
in the workplace is not optimal for a worker's work organization. It suggests that the worker naturally organizes their work in a manner that is much larger in connected units of work than the intended IT design – known as a ''working sphere''.
“Constant, Constant, Multi-tasking Craziness”: Managing Multiple Working Spheres; accessed March 27, 2018 Her 2005 CHI paper investigates the high frequency of work fragmentation among information workers and its implications on technological design.
“No Task Left Behind? Examining the Nature of Fragmented Work”; accessed March 28, 2018 She also published a paper that thoroughly examines contextual reasoning on an information worker's attention state. Among others, it was found that the workplace has more focused attention than boredom
In conventional usage, boredom, ennui, or tedium is an emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occu ...
and that workers are the happiest when undergoing rote work.
Bored Mondays and Focused Afternoons: The Rhythm of Attention and Online Activity in the Workplace; accessed March 27, 2018
Career
*Mark is the author of ''Attention Span'', published in 2023 by HarperCollins. This book describes her decades-long research into how our attention spans on our devices have been shrinking, and how people can achieve control in their behaviors.
*In 2017 Mark was inducted into the ACM CHI Academy The CHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–8 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative co ...
, which honors leaders in the field of human-computer interaction.
*Mark is currently an associate editor of ''ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
''ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on human–computer interaction. It was established in 1994 and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Editors-in-chief ...
'' (''ACM TOCHI'') and ''Human-Computer Interaction'' journals[ - a peer reviewed scientific journal whose focus is to publish high-quality scientific papers pertaining to innovative technology, Human-computer interaction and interactive design. In 2017, she served an associate chair of the ACM CHI conference.][
*She has been a professor at University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Informatics since 2007. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor from 2000–03 and an associate professor from 2003-07 at the same department.][
*She is the author of ''Multitasking in the Digital Age'', a book that thoroughly examines different views of multitasking and the extent to which it effects an information worker.]
Multitasking in the Digital Age; accessed March 27, 2018
*Mark is a senior visiting researcher at Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...
, a position she has held since 2012.[
Mark's work has been covered in popular media outlets such as the '']New York Times
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'', ''Wall Street Journal
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'', NPR
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, ''The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
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. She has also presented at the
festivals.