Dr. Mary Rosson

Biography

Mary Beth Rosson is a Professor Emerita at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. She previously served as the college's Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. Rosson co-directed the Computer-Supported Collaboration Learning Lab and has extensive experience in the field of human-computer interaction. Before joining Penn State in 2003, she was a professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech for ten years and worked as a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for eleven years. She received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982. Rosson is internationally recognized for her research contributions in human-computer interaction, participatory scenario-based evaluation design methods, computer-supported collaborative learning, and end-user development. Her accomplishments have earned her the title of Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery and she is a member of the SIGCHI Academy.

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