Mary Czerwinski is an American cognitive scientist and computer-human interaction expert who works for

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as manager of their research group on visualization and interaction.. Czerwinski earned her doctorate in cognitive science from

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

. She worked in computer-human interaction for

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, the

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, and

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, and also held an adjunct position at

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while at Compaq. She moved to Microsoft in 1996, as a usability tester in product development. Two years later, she joined Microsoft Research, as the first social scientist to work there. She works in the visualization and interaction research group managing researchers, designers, and developers doing human-computer interaction research. Her main research focus is around large/multiple displays, social and physiological computing, novel information visualizations and interaction techniques She was also an affiliated faculty member with the psychology department at the

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from 1996 to 2009, and has been an adjunct professor in Washington's Information School since 2011. In 2015 she was named a

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"for contributions to human-computer interaction and leadership in the CHI community." In 2014, she also received the Distinguished Alumni award from Indiana University's Brain and Psychological Sciences department and will receive a Distinguished Alumni award from the College of Arts and Sciences from Indiana in February, 2018. Czerwinski was awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award, was inducted into the CHI Academy, and became an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2010.

Personal life

Czerwinski currently resides in Redmond, WA.

Education

* 1978-1982—M.A; B.A, Experimental Psychology; Psychology at Ball State University *1982-1988-PhD, Cognitive Psychology at Indiana University Bloomington

Research

Czerwinski has published over a hundred papers during her time at Microsoft Collectively, her work has been cited over 10000 times since 2016. Her research focuses on emotion tracking, information worker task management, health and wellness for individuals and groups.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Czerwinski, Mary Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists American cognitive scientists Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Indiana University Bloomington alumni Microsoft employees Microsoft Research people Scientists at Bell Labs Rice University faculty University of Washington faculty Information visualization experts Human–computer interaction researchers American women academics