Palestrantes

Mary Czerwinski
Regina Bernhaupt

Painel

Marcelo Soares Pimenta
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas
Raquel de Oliveira Prates

Mary Czerwinski (keynote speaker)

Principal Researcher and Manager, Visualization and Interaction Research Group

One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Wa 98052, USA

Biography

Mary Czerwinski is a research area manager of the Visualization and Interaction Research group at Microsoft Research. The group is responsible for studying and designing advanced technology and interaction techniques that leverage human capabilities across a wide variety of input and output channels. Her primary research areas include spatial cognition, information visualization and task switching. Mary has been an affiliate professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Washington since 1996. She has also held positions at Compaq, Rice University, Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Corporation, and Bell Communications Research. She received a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington.

Lecture

Building a Better World via the User-Centered Design of Technology

Todays information workers are characterized by their ability to easily handle interruptions, multi-task, switch tasks quickly, and make sense of enormous amounts of information in high-pressure situations. Current and future technologies, including various wearables and sensing devices, ensure that robust communications and information transmissions can occur almost anywhere, any time. Our ability to log, collect, and visualize event data has become more sophisticated, allowing us to analyze trends and identify patterns across many areas of individual and group behaviors. How do we use these technological trends to ensure that we are designing tools that improve productivity, insight, and an overall sense of user control? In this talk, Mary discusses her research groups approach to the user-centered design of advanced user interfaces, and she describes several of their research projects.