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75
Citations
21120
World Ranking
1422
National Ranking
739

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - ACM Fellow For contributions to human-computer interaction.

Overview

Steve Whittaker is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research spans fields including psychology and computer science, with a notable focus on social psychology, artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, information systems and management, and applied psychology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, such as personal information management and user behavior, digital mental health interventions, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), mental health research topics, mental health via writing, the impact of technology on adolescents, and mobile crowdsensing and crowdsourcing.

Among their frequent collaborators are Ofer Bergman, Lee Taber, Aaron Springer, Jean E. Fox Tree, and Susan C. Herring.

Steve Whittaker's recent papers include:

  • "Progressive Disclosure" (2020) published in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
  • "Alone and online: Understanding the relationships between social media, solitude, and psychological adjustment." (2020) published in Psychology of Popular Media
  • "Designing Personas for Expressive Robots" (2021) published in ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • "Psychological distance in mobile telepresence" (2021) published in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • "Mood and personal information management: how we feel influences how we organize our information" (2020) published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Steve Whittaker was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2014 for contributions to human-computer interaction.

Best Publications

  • Interaction and outeraction: instant messaging in action

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Erin Bradner

  • Email overload: exploring personal information management of email

    Steve Whittaker;Candace Sidner

  • The dynamics of mass interaction

    Steve Whittaker;Loren Terveen;Will Hill;Lynn Cherny

  • Informal workplace communication: what is it like and how might we support it?

    Steve Whittaker;David Frohlich;Owen Daly-Jones

  • The character, functions, and styles of instant messaging in the workplace

    Ellen Isaacs;Alan Walendowski;Steve Whittaker;Diane J. Schiano

  • Conversations over video conferences: an evaluation of the spoken aspects of video-mediated communication

    Brid O'Conaill;Steve Whittaker;Sylvia Wilbur

  • Beyond total capture: a constructive critique of lifelogging

    Abigail J. Sellen;Steve Whittaker

  • Email in personal information management

    Steve Whittaker;Victoria Bellotti;Jacek Gwizdka

  • NetWORKers and their Activity in IntensionalNetworks

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Heinrich Schwarz

  • It's not what you know it's who you know

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Heinrich Schwarz

  • The character, value, and management of personal paper archives

    Steve Whittaker;Julia Hirschberg

  • Theories and methods in mediated communication

    Steve Whittaker

  • MATCH: An Architecture for Multimodal Dialogue Systems

    Michael Johnston;SrinivasBangalore;Gunaranjan Vasireddy;Amanda Stent

  • Echoes from the past: how technology mediated reflection improves well-being

    Ellen Isaacs;Artie Konrad;Alan Walendowski;Thomas Lennig

  • Family memories in the home: contrasting physical and digital mementos

    Daniela Petrelli;Steve Whittaker

  • The role of vision in face-to-face and mediated communication.

    Steve Whittaker;Brid O'Conaill

  • Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: An Investigation into Discourse Segmentation

    Marilyn Walker;Steve Whittaker

  • FILOCHAT: handwritten notes provide access to recorded conversations

    Steve Whittaker;Patrick Hyland;Myrtle Wiley

  • How do designers and user experience professionals actually perceive and use personas

    Tara Matthews;Tejinder Judge;Steve Whittaker

  • Rethinking video as a technology for interpersonal communications

    Steve Whittaker

  • Widening the net: workshop report on the theory and practice of physical and network communities

    Steve Whittaker;Ellen Isaacs;Vicki O'Day

  • Dynamics of mass interaction

    Steve Whittaker;Loren Terveen;Will Hill;Lynn Cherny

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Hirschberg
Julia Hirschberg Columbia University
Marilyn A. Walker
Marilyn A. Walker University of California, Santa Cruz
Loren Terveen
Loren Terveen University of Minnesota
Bonnie Nardi
Bonnie Nardi University of California, Irvine
Victoria Bellotti
Victoria Bellotti Palo Alto Research Center
Amanda Stent
Amanda Stent Colby College
Corina Sas
Corina Sas Lancaster University
Thomas P. Moran
Thomas P. Moran IBM (United States)
John C. Tang
John C. Tang Microsoft (United States)
Abigail Sellen
Abigail Sellen Microsoft (United States)

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