Gloria Mark

Gloria Mark is Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD from Columbia University in psychology and has been a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research. She has spent over two decades studying multitasking, interruptions, productivity and mood with the rise in digital technology. She has published over 200 articles on these topics, and in 2017 was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy which recognizes leaders in the field of human-computer interaction. She has presented her work at SXSW and the Aspen Ideas Festival, and her research has appeared in the popular media, e.g. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Atlantic, the BBC, and many others.