Mary Czerwinski

Mary Czerwinski is a Research Area Manager of the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group.

Background

Mary's research focuses primarily on novel information visualization and interaction techniques across a wide variety of display sizes.  She also studies information worker task management, multitasking, and reflection systems. Her background is in visual attention and user interface design. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington. Here is a link to her curriculum vita.

Professional Activities:

• ACM SIGCHI Executive Vice-President.2006-2009
• ACM SIGCHI Executive Vice-President.2003-2006
• Dean's Advisory Board for School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University
• Creativity and Cognition 2007 Graduate Student Co-Chair
• Interact 2007 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair
• UIST 2005 Conference Co-Chair
• Interact 2005 Tutorials Co-Chair
• UIST 2004 Program Committee
• Dean's Advisory Board for the Indiana University School of Informatics since 2004
• Co-Editor for IJHCS Special Issue on Notifications Design and Evaluation.
• AVI 2004 Program Committee.
• UIST 2003 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair.
• Information Visualization editorial board member since 2003.
   
• CHI 2003 and 2004 Associate Chair.
• CHI 2002 Workshop Co-Chair.
• Co-Editor for a Special Issue of IJHCS on Empirical Studies of Information Visualizations.
• ACM SIGCHI Communications Vice-President 2001-2002
• 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 1996-current.

Publications

2008

Burnett, Margaret, Costabile, Maria Francesca, Catarci, Tiziana, Ruyter, Boris de, Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary and Lund, Arnold (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI 2008 5-10 April, 2008, Florence, Italy.

Biehl, Jacob T., Baker, William T., Bailey, Brian P., Tan, Desney S., Inkpen, Kori and Czerwinski, Mary (2008): Impromptu: a new interaction framework for supporting collaboration in multiple display environments and its field evaluation for co-located software development. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 939-948.

Gajos, Krzysztof Z., Everitt, Katherine, Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary and Weld, Daniel S. (2008): Predictability and accuracy in adaptive user interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1271-1274.

Desney S. Tan, Darren Gergle, Regan Mandryk, Kori Inkpen, Melanie Kellar, Kirstie Hawkey, Mary Czerwinski (2008). Using job-shop scheduling tasks for evaluating collocated collaboration.  January, 2008, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 12 (3), 255-267.

2007

Biehl, J.T., Czerwinski, M., Smith, G., Robertson, G.G. & Bailey, B. (2007). FASTDash: A visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007. pp. 1313-1322.

Brush, A.J., Meyers, B.R., Tan, D.S., & Czerwinski, M. (2007). Understanding memory triggers for task tracking.  In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007. pp. 947-950.

William Jones, Jared Spool, Jonathan Grudin, Victoria Bellotti, Mary Czerwinski (2007).  Get real!  What's wrong with hci prototyping and how can we fix it?
April 2007		CHI '07: CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems

2006

Tan, D., Gergle, D., Mandryk, R., Inkpen, K., Kellar, M., Hawkey, K. & Czerwinski, M. (2006). Using job-shop scheduling tasks for evaluating collocated collaboration. In a Special Issue of ICMI, User-centered design and evaluation of services for human-human communication and collaboration, to appear.

DeLine, R., Czerwinski, M., Meyers, B., Venolia, G., Drucker, S. & Robertson, G. (2006). Code thumbnails: Using spatial memory to navigate source code.  In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006.

         G Smith, M Czerwinski, B Meyers, D Robbins, G Robertson, D S Tan. (2006). FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization, In Proc. InfoVis,  2006, .

Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S. Tan and Daniel S. Weld . Exploring the Design Space For Adaptive Graphical User Interfaces. In Proceedings of AVI'06, Venice, Italy, 2006, 201-208.

Ramos, G., Robertson, G., Czerwinski, M., Tan, D., Baudisch, P., Hinckley, K., Agrawala, M., Robbins, D. Tumble! Splat! Helping users access and manipulate occluded content in 2D drawings.  In Proceedings of AVI'06, Venice, Italy, 2006, 428-435.

Czerwinski, M., Gage, D., Gemmel, J., Marshall, C. C., Perez-Quinones, M., Skeels, M. M., et al. (2006). Digital memories in an era of  ubiquitous  computing and abundant storage. Communications of the ACM, Special Issue on Personal Information Management, 49(1), 44-50.

Czerwinski, M., Robertson, G.G., Meyers, B., Smith, G., Robbins, D. & Tan, D. (2006).  Large display research overview.  In Proceedings of ACM's CHI 2006, 69-74.  Slide deck.

Matthews, T., Czerwinski, M., Robertson, G. & Tan, D. (2006).  Clipping lists and change borders: Improving multitasking efficiency with peripheral information design.   In Proceedings of ACM's CHI 2006, 989-998.

Karlson, A.K., Robertson, G., Robbins, D., Czerwinski, M. & Smith, G. (2006).  FaThumb: A facet-based interface for mobile search.  In Proceedings of ACM's CHI 2006, 711-720.

Tan, D., Czerwinski, M., Robertson, G. G.  Large displays enhance optical flow cues and close the gender gap in 3D virtual navigation.  Journal article accepted to Human Factors.

Shneiderman, B., Fischer, G., Czerwinski, M., Resnick, M., Myers, B., Candy, L., Edmonds, E., Eisenberg, M., Giaccardi, E., Hewett, T., Jennings, P., Kules, B., Nakakoji, K., Nunamaker, J., Pausch, R., Selker, T., Sylvan, E. (May 2006). Creativity Support Tools: Report from a U.S. National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 20 (2). 61-77.

Kaptelinin, V. & Czerwinski, M. (Eds.) (2007). Beyond the Desktop Metaphor:  Integrated Digital Work Environments.  MIT Press,.

Meyers, B., Brush, A.J., Drucker, S., Smith, M. & Czerwinski, M. (2006).  Dance your work away:  Exploring step user interfaces.  In Proceedings of ACM's CHI 2006, 387-392.

2005

Tan, D., Keyani, P. & Czerwinski, M. (2005). Spy-resistant keyboard: More secure password entry on public touch screen displays.  In Proceedings of OZCHI 2005.

Deline, R., Czerwinski, M. & Robertson, G.G. (2005).  Easing Program Comprehension by Sharing Navigation Data.  In Proceedings of Visual Languages and Human-Centered Computing, VL/HCC 2005.

Robertson, G.G., Czerwinski, M., Baudisch, P., Meyers, B., Robbins, D., Smith, G., and Tan, D. (2005).  Large display user experience.  In IEEE CG&A special issue on large displays, 25(4), 44-51..

Chellapilla, K., Larson, K., Simard, P. & Czerwinski, M. (2005).  Computers beat humans at single character recognition in reading-based Human Interaction Proofs (HIPs).  In proceedings of CEAS 2005, Conference on Email and Anti-Spam.

Robertson, G.G., Czerwinski, M.P. & Churchill, J.E. (2005). Visualization of Mappings between Schemas.  In proceedings of ACM’s CHI 2005 (full paper).

Chellapilla, K., Larson, K., Simard, P. & Czerwinski, M.   (2005). Designing Human Friendly Human Interaction Proofs (HIPS).  In proceedings of ACM’s CHI 2005 (full paper).

Lee, B., Czerwinski, M., Robertson, G. & Bederson, B. B. (2005). Understanding Research Trends in Conferences using PaperLens.  In proceedings of ACM’s CHI 2005 (short paper).

Deline, R., Khella, A., Czerwinski, M. and Robertson, G.G. (2005).  Towards understanding programs through wear-based filtering.  In proceedings of SoftVis 2005.

Tan, D., Gergle, D. & Czerwinski, M. (2005).  A job-shop scheduling task for evaluating coordination during computer supported collaborative work.  MSR-TR-2005-107, MSR Technical Report, August, 2005.

2004

Lee, B., Czerwinski, M., Robertson, G.G. & Bederson, B. (2004).  Understanding 8 years of InfoVis conferences using PaperLens.  In Proceedings of InfoVis 2004.  Video figure.

Czerwinski, M., Horvitz, E. & Wilhite, S. (2004). A Diary Study of Task Switching and Interruptions.   In Proceedings of ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2004, p. 175-182.

Tan, D.S., Meyers, B. & Czerwinski, M. (2004). WinCuts: Manipulating arbitrary window regions for more effective use of screen space.  In Extended Abstracts of Proceedings of ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2004, p. 1525-1528.

Hutchings, D., Smith, G., Meyers, B.,  Czerwinski, M., & Robertson, G. (2004). Display space usage and window management operation comparisons between single monitor and multiple monitor users. In Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2004, p. 32-39.

Robertson, G., Horvitz, E., Czerwinski, M., Hutchings, D., Baudisch, P, Meyers, B., Robbins, D & Smith, G. Scalable Fabric: Flexible task management.  In Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2004, p. 85-89.

Bederson, B. B., Clamage, A., Czerwinski, M. P., & Robertson, G. G. (2004).  DateLens: A Fisheye Calendar Interface for PDAs, Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, March, 11(1), New York: ACM, 90-119.

2003

G. Smith, P. Baudisch, G. Robertson, M. Czerwinski, B. Meyers, D. Robbins, and D. Andrews, “GroupBar: The TaskBar Evolved”, in Proceedings of OZCHI’03 (Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference), November 26, 2003, Brisbane, Australia, Univ. of Queensland, pp. 34-43.

 D. Tan and M. Czerwinski, “Effects of Visual Separation and Physical Discontinuities when Distributing Information across Multiple Displays”, in Proceedings of OZCHI’03 (Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference), November 26, 2003, Brisbane, Australia, Univ. of Queensland, pp. 184-191.

Czerwinski, M., Smith, G., Regan, T., Meyers, B., Robertson, G. and Starkweather, G. (2003). Toward characterizing the productivity benefits of very large displays.  In M. Rauterberg et al. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction--INTERACT '03, IOS Press, 9-16. Copyright IFIP, 2003.

Tan, D. and Czerwinski, M. (2003). Effects of Visual Separation and Physical Discontinuities when Distributing Information across Multiple Displays. In M. Rauterberg et al. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction--INTERACT '03, IOS Press, 252-255. Copyright IFIP, 2003.

Baudisch, P., Cutrell, E., Robbins, D., Czerwinski, M., Tandler, P., & Bederson, B. B. and Zierlinger, A. (2003) Drag-and-Pop and Drag-and-Pick: Techniques for Accessing Remote Screen Content on Touch- and Pen-Operated Systems. In M. Rauterberg et al. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction--INTERACT '03, IOS Press, 57-64. Copyright IFIP, 2003.

McCrickard, D. S., Czerwinski, M. & Bartram, L. (2003). Introduction: design and evaluation of notification user interfaces. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 58, 509-514.

Bederson, B.B., Czerwinski, M. & Robertson, G. (2003). A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs: Providing overviews for small displays.  In Bederson, B.B. & Shneiderman, B. (Eds.) The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections, 324-344, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman, Inc.

Bederson, B.B., Czerwinski, M. & Robertson, G. (2003). A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs: Providing overviews for small displays. In Companion Proceedings of CHI 2003, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1066-1067, ACM press. Copyright © 2003 by ACM, Inc.

Tan, D.S.,Czerwinski, M., & Robertson, G.G. (2003). Women Go with the (Optical) Flow. In Proceedings of CHI 2003, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 209-215, ACM press. Copyright © 2003 by ACM, Inc.

Tan, D. and Czerwinski, M. (2003). Information Voyeurism: Social Impact of Physically Large Displays on Information Privacy. In Proceedings of CHI 2003, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 2003, pp. 748-749, ACM press. Copyright © 2003 by ACM, Inc.

Czerwinski, M. (2003).  Human-computer interaction for large display surfaces.
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2002

Czerwinski, M. (2002). ref="HCIHandbookChapter.pdf">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. Czerwinski, M. & Horvitz, E. (2002). Memory for Daily Computing Events. In Faulkner, X., Finlay, J. & Detienne, F. (Eds.), People and Computers XVI, Proceedings of HCI 2002, 230-245.

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.

Muller, M. & Czerwinski, M.  Organizing usability work to fit the full product range.  In Communications of the ACM, 42(5), 87-90.

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.

Czerwinski, M. & Larson, K. (1998).  Business:  trends in future web designs:  what's next for the HCI professional?  In ACM's Interactions, 5(6), 9.

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.

Notes on British HCI '97

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 AACM, Inc.

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