Research Mark is an active researcher on human-computer interaction with her primary research revolving around
social computing. In 2004, Mark published a CHI paper that argued that the design of
information technology in the workplace is not optimal for a worker's work organization. It suggests that the worker naturally organizes their work in a manner that is much larger in connected units of work than the intended IT design – known as a
working sphere. Her 2005 CHI paper investigates the high frequency of work fragmentation among information workers and its implications on technological design. She also published a paper that thoroughly examines contextual reasoning on an information worker's attention state. Among others, it was found that the workplace has more focused attention than
boredom and that workers are the happiest when undergoing
rote work.
Career • Mark is the author of
Attention Span, published in 2023 by HarperCollins. This book describes her decades-long research into how our attention spans on our devices have been shrinking, and how people can achieve control in their behaviors. • In 2017 Mark was inducted into the ACM
CHI Academy, which honors leaders in the field of human-computer interaction. • Mark is currently an associate editor of
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (
ACM TOCHI) and
Human-Computer Interaction journals • Mark is a senior visiting researcher at
Microsoft Research, a position she has held since 2012. Mark's work has been covered in popular media outlets such as the
New York Times,
Wall Street Journal,
NPR,
The Atlantic and
BBC. She has also presented at the
SXSW and
Aspen Ideas festivals. ==Notable honors and awards==