Mary Beth Rosson

Computer scientist

Mary Beth Rosson
Occupation(s)	Director of Graduate Programs and Professor at Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology

Academic background
Education	University of Texas at Austin, Trinity University (Texas)
Academic work
Discipline	Human-computer interaction, Psychology, Integrated and Visual Development Environments, Software Testing and Debugging

Website	ist.psu.edu/directory/mur13, mrosson.ist.psu.edu

Mary Beth Rosson is the director of graduate programs and professor at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. Rosson also co-directs the collaboration and innovation lab.^[1] Most of her research concentrates on End User Programming, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Prior to teaching at Penn State, Rosson taught at the Virginia Tech Computer Science department for 10 years and worked as a research staff manager at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center for 11 years. Rosson also served as the Dean for the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology from 2014 to 2016. Rosson earned her Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 1982 from the University of Texas at Austin and her Bachelors in Psychology from Trinity University(Texas) in 1977.^[2]

Research

Rosson currently co-directs Penn State's CSCL Lab with her husband, John Carroll. She is a founding member of the End Users Shaping Effective Software (EUSES) Consortium, which focuses on issues and techniques related to end-user software engineering. Her other research interests include community informatics, environments and tools for object-oriented programming and design, and visual programming environments. She has also done work related to scenario-based design and minimalism^[3]^[4] Rosson and Carroll co-developed the task-artifact framework for design.^[5]

Publications

Rosson and Carroll have co-authored a book, Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction.^[4] Rosson has co-authored dozens of book chapters. She has authored or co-authored over one hundred journal articles and refereed conference proceedings^[6] Rosson has over 423 publications as of 2022. She also has collaborated with IntechOpen to edit the book "Advances in Learning Processes". This contains a collection of papers on topics relating to technology in educational settings.

Professional activities

General Chair for CHI in 2006
Doctoral Symposium Chair for DIS in 2006
Program Committee and Graduate Symposium Mentor for VL/HCC in 2006
General Chair for OOPSLA in 2000^[3]

Awards and honors

2020 Elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to human-computer interaction, including scenario-based design^[7]
2007 she was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the ACM^[8]
2001 ACM Recognition of Service Award
Awarded the SIGCHI Award for service as CHI 1997 Technical Program Co-chair International
Member of the SIGCHI Academy ^[1]

Education

Ph.D., Human Experimental Psychology University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1982^[1]
B.A., Psychology, Summa Cum Laude, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1977^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mary Beth Rosson | Penn State College of IST".
^ "Onward! Keynote: The End of Users". OOPSLA. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Mary Beth Rosson: About Me. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Faculty profiles. Penn State CIST. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
^ "Mary Beth Rosson profile". Archived from the original on August 7, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
^ Rosson, Mary Beth (May 10, 2009), How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work, pp. 243–252, retrieved March 21, 2022
^ "Rosson named Association for Computing Machinery fellow | Penn State University".
^ "Mary Beth Rosson".