{"64374":{"#nid":"64374","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag: Mary Czerwinski","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Future of Distributed Groups and their Use of Social Media        \n        \n\n\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n    \n            \n                      \n              \u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\n                    \u003Cp\u003EDistributed team field research has shown that \nshared group awareness, coordination and informal communication are the \nmost common ways for teams to inform each other of progress. In \naddition, we have observed that poorly documented, informal \ncommunication causes a fragmented workday due to frequent interruptions \nand knowledge loss due to the passage of time and team attrition. \nBecause informal communication has both advantages and disadvantages for\n information sharing, it merits deeper study to allow any proposed \ntreatment to preserve the good while reducing the bad. Over the past \nseveral years, we have conducted a series of studies at Microsoft \nCorporation and beyond to document the nature of group conversations and\n communications. Based on surveys, lab studies, field studies and \ninterviews, we have begun to develop a suite of tools that allow groups,\n both co-located and distributed, to stay more aware of their \ncolleagues\u2019 actions, get on board to a new team more efficiently, and \nengage with each other at the most optimal times. Examples of many of \nthese tools will be discussed, as will our progress in transitioning \nthese ideas into real products.\u003C\/p\u003E\n        \n        \n\n\n    \n            \n                      \n              \u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\n                    \u003Cp\u003EMary Czerwinski is a Research Area Manager at \nMicrosoft Research, where she manages many diverse areas of \nhuman-computer interaction, including social computing, information \nvisualization, CSCW, sensor-based interaction and healthcare. Mary has \nbeen an avid participant in the ACM SIGCHI community, sitting on the \nSIGCHI Executive Committee for the last 10 years, chairing CHI 2008, \nUIST 2005, Papers Chair for CHI 2000 and UIST 2010, in addition to many \nother conference volunteer roles. Mary was recently awarded the ACM \nSIGCHI Lifetime Service award and was also inducted into the ACM CHI \nAcademy. Mary has ~100 publications in HCI and psychology, and holds a \nPhD in Cognitive Psychology. Mary is very involved in supporting \nacademia as well, sitting on multiple university advisory boards and PhD\n student dissertation committees.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Future of Distributed Groups and their Use of Social Media"}],"uid":"27197","created_gmt":"2011-02-21 12:20:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:14","author":"Renata Le Dantec","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-02-24T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-02-24T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-02-24T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-02-24 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-02-24 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-02-24 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"5743","name":"GVU Brown Bag"},{"id":"8494","name":"HCI"},{"id":"335","name":"Microsoft"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}