Gloria Mark
Gloria Mark
Department of InformaticsUniversity of California, Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/Home_page/Welcome.html
Título Rhythms of Attention Focus, Mood and Stress with Digital Activity
Resumo
In our digital age, how does constant connectivity affect people in terms of their attention focus, mood, and stress? How much do people multitask with digital media and why do people self-interrupt? Are online and offline social interactions associated with different moods? When are people focused and bored throughout their workday? In this talk I will present results of using precision tracking methods of sensors, biosensors, Sensecams, and experience sampling to capture the digital activity, stress, mood and focus of people in their in situ environments. I will present data from over 70 information workers tracked for multiple workdays and over 120 Millennials tracked for seven days, all waking hours. Our results show the extent to which people multitask and how interactions play a unique role in multitasking. Online and offline social interactions are associated with different moods, suggesting that they serve different purposes at work. Email use is associated with stress, negative affect and with feeling engaged and challenged. Rhythms of focus and boredom are evident throughout the day and week, in conjunction with particular digital media usage. I will discuss the consequences of constant online activity and how these results can inform the design of computer technologies and practices that could be used to improve people's mood, focus and stress management.
Biografia
Gloria Mark is a Professor in the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the studying the impact of digital technology in real-world contexts. Her current projects include studying precision tracking of information workers' digital media use and mood, the use of ICTs in environments disrupted by conflict, and workplace social media. She received her PhD in Psychology from Columbia University. Prior to joining UCI in 2000, she worked at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD, now Fraunhofer Institute) and has been a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research and IBM. In 2006 she received a Fulbright scholarship where she worked at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top conferences and journals in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work). She has been the technical program chair for the ACM CSCW'12, ACM CSCW'06, and ACM GROUP' 05 conferences, and is on the editorial board of ACM TOCHI and Human-Computer Interaction. Her work has also appeared in the popular press such as The New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Time, and The Wall Street Journal.