2026 Mary Beth Rosson: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	77	1241	1200	658	632	407	33159

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to human-computer interaction, including scenario-based design
2007 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Mary Beth Rosson is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of computer science and social sciences, with notable work in human-computer interaction and education.

Their recent publications include the following:

AIGuide: Augmented Reality Hand Guidance in a Visual Prosthetic, 2022, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Human-Computer Synergies in Prosthetic Interactions, 2020, Interaction design & architecture(s)/ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s)
Exploring Feelings of Student Community across a Geographically Distributed University, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
IT'S NOT THE DATA, IT'S HOW THEY USE IT! SCENARIO-BASED EXPLORATION OF LEARNING ANALYTICS APPLICATIONS, 2021, EDULEARN proceedings
A SYNTHETIC LITERATURE REVIEW ON ANALYTICS TO SUPPORT CURRICULUM IMPROVEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 2023, EDULEARN proceedings

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mary Beth Rosson include:

Sooyeon Lee
John M. Carroll
Xiaotian Vivian Li
Nelson Daniel Troncoso Aldas
Chonghan Lee

The venues contributing to their body of work often involve:

EDULEARN proceedings
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Interaction design & architecture(s)/ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s)
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Mary Beth Rosson's main fields of study cover:

Computer Science
Social Sciences

More specific subfields of interest include:

Human-Computer Interaction
Education
Computer Science Applications
Cognitive Neuroscience
Literature and Literary Theory

The primary topics addressed by their work are:

Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
Interactive and Immersive Displays
Online and Blended Learning
Digital Communication and Language
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Mary Beth Rosson has been recognized with professional distinctions including:

ACM Fellow, 2020, for contributions to human-computer interaction, including scenario-based design
ACM Distinguished Member, 2007

Best Publications

Usability Engineering

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6031
Citations
Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction

Mary Beth Rosson;John M. Carroll

2135
Citations
How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work

Dejin Zhao;Mary Beth Rosson

1441
Citations
Weak Ties in Networked Communities

Andrea L. Kavanaugh;Debbie Denise Reese;John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson

1287
Citations
Paradox of the active user

John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson

934
Citations
The personalization privacy paradox: An exploratory study of decision making process for location-aware marketing

Heng Xu;Xin (Robert) Luo;John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson

860
Citations
The state of the art in end-user software engineering

Amy J. Ko;Robin Abraham;Laura Beckwith;Alan Blackwell

786
Citations
Scenario-based design

Mary Beth Rosson;John M. Carroll

775
Citations
Survey on user interface programming

Brad A. Myers;Mary Beth Rosson

771
Citations
Getting around the task-artifact cycle: how to make claims and design by scenario

John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson

681
Citations
Notification and awareness: synchronizing task-oriented collaborative activity

John M. Carroll;Dennis C. Neale;Philip L. Isenhour;Mary Beth Rosson

575
Citations
Developing the Blacksburg electronic village

John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson

510
Citations
Understanding Student Motivation, Behaviors and Perceptions in MOOCs

Saijing Zheng;Mary Beth Rosson;Patrick C. Shih;John M. Carroll

500
Citations
The task-artifact cycle

John M. Carroll;Wendy A. Kellogg;Mary Beth Rosson

478
Citations
Community Networks: Where Offline Communities Meet Online

Andrea L. Kavanaugh;John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson;Than Than Zin

446
Citations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Irvin R. Katz;Robert Mack;Linn Marks;Mary Beth Rosson

417
Citations
Participatory design in community informatics

John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson

415
Citations
Privacy as information access and illusory control: The case of the Facebook News Feed privacy outcry

Christopher M. Hoadley;Heng Xu;Joey J. Lee;Mary Beth Rosson

397
Citations
Evaluating computer-supported cooperative work: models and frameworks

Dennis C. Neale;John M Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson

379
Citations
Awareness and teamwork in computer-supported collaborations

John M. Carroll;Mary Beth Rosson;Gregorio Convertino;Craig H. Ganoe

333
Citations
Flexible collaboration transparency: supporting worker independence in replicated application-sharing systems

James Begole;Mary Beth Rosson;Clifford A. Shaffer

298
Citations
Use and Adoption Challenges of Wearable Activity Trackers

Patrick C. Shih;Kyungsik Han;Erika Shehan Poole;Mary Beth Rosson

254
Citations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Mary Beth Rosson;David Gilmore

54
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Carroll University of Sussex

Heng Xu University of Florida

Margaret Burnett Oregon State University

Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University

Wendy A. Kellogg IBM (United States)

Naren Ramakrishnan Virginia Tech

Volker Wulf University of Siegen

Ivar Jacobson Ivar Jacobson International

Grady Booch IBM (United States)

Starr Roxanne Hiltz New Jersey Institute of Technology

External Links

Wikipedia of Mary Beth Rosson Google Scholar page

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