Gloria Mark

Gloria Janet Mark is an American psychologist. She is Chancellor's professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine.
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 and the social impacts of Digital media. In 2017, she was inducted into the CHI Academy for her contributions to the field of Human-computer interaction.
SIGCHI Awards; accessed March 26, 2018

Education

She earned her PhD in psychology from Columbia University in 1991 and her M.S. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan.

Career and research

Research

Mark is an active researcher on human-computer interaction with her primary research revolving around social computing. In particular, her research interests have led to a variety of investigations of individuals and their workplace 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, time spent at a computer and multitasking as there was a measure of the subjects’ mood and stress using biosensors 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 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 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, which honors leaders in the field of human-computer interaction.
*Mark is currently an associate editor of ''ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction'' (''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, a position she has held since 2012.

Mark's work has been covered in popular media outlets such as the ''New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', NPR, ''The Atlantic'' and BBC
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