Gloria Janet Mark is an American psychologist. She is Chancellor's professor in the Department of

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, Gloria Mark's CV; accessed March 26, 2018 She is the author of the 2023 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

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and the social impacts of

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. In 2017, she was inducted into the

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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. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

in 1991 and her M.S. in

biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) is a branch of statistics that applies 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 experimen ...

from the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

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 works, for their employer or themselves, a place of employment. Such a place can range from a home office to a large office building or factory. For industrialized societies, the workplace is one of the ...

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 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 rece ...

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 a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

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

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and that workers are the happiest when undergoing

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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

, 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 to 2003 and an associate professor from 2003 to 2007 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

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, a position she has held since 2012. Mark's work has been covered in popular media outlets such as the ''

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'', ''

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'',

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, ''

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'' and

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. She has also presented at the

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and Aspen Ideas festivals.

Notable honors and awards

Mark was awarded the Best CHI paper in 2014 and the

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Research Award in 2011 and 2014. She is recognized with a

Graduate Fellowship and received a

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from

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in 2006. Furthermore, Mark was a recipient of the

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Career Grant for her work from 2001 to 2006 and in 2004–05, she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award from the

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, also known colloquially as UCI's School of ICS or simply the Bren School, is an academic unit of the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the only dedicated school of computer s ...

. Mark has been recognized for her significant career contributions to research as she received the UCI ICS Dean's Mid-Career Award for Research in 2015 and inducted to the

in 2017.

External links

author website

References

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