Episode: Gloria Mark on service, multitasking, creativity and fun
Episode pub date: 2017-06-06
Gloria Mark is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California Irvine. Gloria talks about her experiences as chair of a major conference, not just the work but also the rewards. She talks about how she moved from a Fine Arts background, painting murals on buildings, to a PhD in cognitive science and now studying the relationship between media use, attention and stress, but still being able to be creative in work. She also reflects honestly on her own struggles to manage her screen time and stress but above all she reminds us of the importance of fun and fulfilment in work.
“There are opportunities all around us and very often we are blind to them. … You have to be willing to give up a particular path that you might think you are on.”
“Email is a symbol of work… a reminder there is work there”
“You can practice creativity in so many ways, in conversations, in writing, in just thinking of ideas.”
“It’s important to keep some kind of fun in what you do because otherwise it’s not
Related Links
Gloria’s home page: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/Home_page/Welcome.html
CHI2017 conference chaired by Gloria with Sue Fussell – https://chi2017.acm.org
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