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Citations
17386
World Ranking
2199
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1103

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Rebecca E. Grinter is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on Social Sciences and Computer Science, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, and Human-Computer Interaction.

Their work covers key topics including Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Digital Games and Media, and Digital Economy and Work Transformation. These areas reflect the intersections between social behavior, technological development, and digital environments.

Rebecca E. Grinter has recently contributed to academic literature with the publication titled Romancing the Algorithm in 2022. This paper appeared in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction and has received citations indicating its engagement within the scholarly community.

  • Romancing the Algorithm, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

The researcher has collaborated with several co-authors, which demonstrates their involvement in interdisciplinary or collaborative research projects. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Vishal Sharma
  • Kirsten Bray
  • Neha Kumar

Their publications are primarily found in venues such as the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, a platform focusing on the relationship between humans and digital systems.

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Rebecca E. Grinter has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with distinctions that mark professional achievements within the computing community. These awards include the ACM Senior Member status attained in 2008 and the ACM Distinguished Member title awarded in 2009.

Best Publications

  • At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges

    W. Keith Edwards;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development

    Lilly Irani;Janet Vertesi;Paul Dourish;Kavita Philip

  • Instant messaging in teen life

    Rebecca E. Grinter;Leysia Palen

  • Splitting the organization and integrating the code: Conway's law revisited

    James D. Herbsleb;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Distance, dependencies, and delay in a global collaboration

    James D. Herbsleb;Audris Mockus;Thomas A. Finholt;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Making sense of sensing systems: five questions for designers and researchers

    Victoria Bellotti;Maribeth Back;W. Keith Edwards;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • An empirical study of global software development: distance and speed

    James D. Herbsleb;Audris Mockus;Thomas A. Finholt;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • The geography of coordination: dealing with distance in R&D work

    Rebecca E. Grinter;James D. Herbsleb;Dewayne E. Perry

  • Architectures, coordination, and distance: Conway's law and beyond

    J.D. Herbsleb;R.E. Grinter

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    Rebecca E. Grinter;Margery A. Eldridge

  • Security in the wild: user strategies for managing security as an everyday, practical problem

    Paul Dourish;E. Grinter;Jessica Delgado de la Flor;Melissa Joseph

  • Intersectional HCI: Engaging Identity through Gender, Race, and Class

    Ari Schlesinger;W. Keith Edwards;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Wan2tlk?: everyday text messaging

    Rebecca Grinter;Margery Eldridge

  • User interface for data presentation systems

    Thomas J. Ball;Kenneth Charles Cox;Rebecca Elizabeth Grinter;Stacie Lynn Hibino

  • Getting to green: understanding resource consumption in the home

    Marshini Chetty;David Tran;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Sotto voce: exploring the interplay of conversation and mobile audio spaces

    Paul M. Aoki;Rebecca E. Grinter;Amy Hurst;Margaret H. Szymanski

  • "My Roomba is Rambo": intimate home appliances

    Ja-Young Sung;Lan Guo;Rebecca E. Grinter;Henrik I. Christensen

  • Quality versus quantity: e-mail-centric task management and its relation with overload

    Victoria Bellotti;Nicolas Ducheneaut;Mark Howard;Ian Smith

  • Revisiting the visit: understanding how technology can shape the museum visit

    Rebecca E. Grinter;Paul M. Aoki;Margaret H. Szymanski;James D. Thornton

  • The work to make a home network work

    Rebecca E. Grinter;W. Keith Edwards;Mark W. Newman;Nicolas Ducheneaut

  • Evaluating Human-Robot Interaction Focusing on the Holistic Interaction Experience

    James Everett Young;James Everett Young;Ja-Young Sung;Amy Voida;Ehud Sharlin

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Keith Edwards
W. Keith Edwards Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul M. Aoki
Paul M. Aoki Google (United States)
Allison Woodruff
Allison Woodruff Google (United States)
James D. Herbsleb
James D. Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University
Henrik I. Christensen
Henrik I. Christensen University of California, San Diego
Diana K. Smetters
Diana K. Smetters Google (United States)
Dirk Balfanz
Dirk Balfanz Google (United States)
Nicolas Ducheneaut
Nicolas Ducheneaut Quantic Foundry
Amy Hurst
Amy Hurst New York University
Ellen W. Zegura
Ellen W. Zegura Georgia Institute of Technology

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