mark w. newman

School of Information
University of Michigan
2222 SI North
1075 Beal Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 764 0020

[professional] mwnewman AT umich DOT edu
[unprofessional] mark AT newmantaylor DOT com
about me projects publications CV.pdf secret identity

I am an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. My research interests lie broadly in the field of human-computer interaction, and particularly in the areas of ubiquitous computing and end-user programming. Prior to the Summer of 2007, I was a research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, formerly known as Xerox PARC) and a doctoral candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

Before you contact me, please read this note.

Spring 2008 Update:

April 4-11, I'll be at CHI '08 in Florence, Italy supporting my colleagues Koji Yatani and Victoria Bellotti as they present our joint work:

  • Koji Yatani, Kurt Partridge, Marshall Bern, and Mark W. Newman. Escape: A Target Selection Technique Using Visually-cued Gestures. To appear in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). [pdf] [YouTube video]
  • Victoria Bellotti, Bo Begole, Ed H. Chi, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ji Fang, Ellen Isaacs, Tracy King, Mark W. Newman, Kurt Partridge, Bob Price, Paul Rasmussen, Michael Roberts, Diane J. Schiano, Alan Walendowski. Activity-Based Serendipitous Recommendations with the Magitti Mobile Leisure Guide. To appear in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008).

May 16-22, I'll be at PERVASIVE '08 in Sydney, Australia presenting

  • Mark W. Newman, Ame Elliott, and Trevor F. Smith. Providing an Integrated User Experience of Networked Media, Devices, and Services Through End-User Composition. To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE '08). [pdf]

... and participating in the Pervasive @ Home workshop where I'll be presenting

  • Mark W. Newman and Mark S. Ackerman. Pervasive Help @ Home: Connecting People Who Connect Devices. In Pervasive @ Home Workshop at PERVASIVE '08. [pdf]

Will the real "Mark Newman" please stand up?

Before you contact me, be aware that there's another Mark Newman at the University of Michigan. Mark E. J. Newman is in the physics dept. and does work in complex systems and network analysis (in the sense of graph theory, not TCP/IP). I'm the one that does HCI and ubiquitous computing reasearch. We're both interested in the social world, thus increasing the likelihood of confusion, but I tend to avoid the really hard math. Also, I've never made an election map, even though I've been complimented on the other Mark Newman's maps a number of times now.