Senior Principal Scientist, IDEA Team Lead
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I am the team lead of the newly formed Innovate Design Experience Animate (IDEA) team at NRC, Palo Alto. Our research focuses on innovative mobile user interfaces and user experiences, including services that accompany them. We consider the ever increasing amount of data that is created, collected and consumed through mobile devices (text, photo, audio, video), and the emerging communication practices that combine multiple channels on the phone and through services offered by social networking sites.
Our specific research agenda is a work in progress, will put more information here soon.
How do you get to do what you are passionate about? Each person has their unique story. In the early 90s I started my career as a computer scientist, teaching database courses and later working on large-scale file, storage and distributed systems. While I could have followed that path for a very long time, my research career took an unexpected turn with several projects in the areas of mobile and ubiquitous systems. For a while my collegues and I worked hard at deploying a museum guidebook lab demo in a real situation. These project taught me the limitations of a purely technological perspective. I became passionate about user research, human-computer interaction, user experience and design and decided to retrain myself.
These days I like to think of users first and what they really need. I like to think of real people on the street as they go about their daily lives, technology serving them, as opposed to the other way around. I love working in multidisciplinary teams - combining the knowledge of many disciplines and our individual strengths to see the problem in a new light. And I love to work outside of the lab, in the real world where people are truly mobile.
I see my role at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto as a user research evangelist and passionate advocate for very human mobile experiences. I hope to put to good use all the things I have learned as a senior design researcher at Yahoo! Mobile business unit, a senior research scientist and project manager at HP Labs where I was part of the Cooltown program, as well earlier experiences from a startup called Transarc and as an assistant professor at Washington State University.
G. Cuellar, D. Eckles, M. Spasojevic. Photos for Information: A Field Study of Cameraphone Computer Vision Interactions in Tourism. Proc. CHI 2008 Extended Abstracts. April 2008.
R. Hinman, M. Spasojevic, P. Isomursu. They call it “surfing” for a reason: Identifying mobile Internet needs through PC deprivation. Proc. of CHI 2008, Florence, Italy, April 2008.
P. Isomursu, R. Hinman, M. Isomursu, M. Spasojevic. Metaphors for the Mobile Internet. Journal on Knowledge, Technology & Policy, Dec 2007, Vol 20, No 4.
M. Spasojevic, R. Hinman, W. Dzierson. Mobile Persuasion Design Principles. Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives on the Future of Behavior Change (Persuasive Technology Lab, BJ Fogg, D. Eckles, eds.)
M. Spasojevic, R. Hinman. Mobile Web: Design Insights from Consumer Field Studies. Mobile Persuasion Conference, Stanford, Feb 2nd, 2007. PDF
J. Gao, M. Spasojevic, M. Jacob, V. Setlur, E. Reponen, M. Pulkkinen, P. Schloter, K. Pulli. Intelligent Visual Matching for Providing Context-Aware Information to Mobile Users. Supplemental proceedings of the Ubicomp 2007.M. Spasojevic, R. Hinman, M. Naaman, V. Roto, W. Dzierson. Mobile and Ubiquitous User Experience: Design Principles and Best Practices. Workshop proposal for Ubicomp 2007 conference, Innsbruck, Austria, Sept 2007. (workshop site)
M. Naaman, M. Spasojevic. Location and Photos – A Match Made in Heaven… or Hell? Proc of CHI Mobile Social Software Workshop, Apr 2006.
T. Kindberg, M. Spasojevic, R. Fleck, A. Sellen. The Ubiquitous Camera: An In-Depth Study of Camera Phone Use. IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on The Smart Phone, Apr-Jun 2005.
T. Kindberg, M. Spasojevic, R. Fleck, A. Sellen. I Saw This and Thought of You: Some Social Uses of Camera Phones. Proc. of CHI, Apr 2005.
A. Slayden, M. Spasojevic, M. Hans, M. Smith. DJammer: “Air-Scratching” and Freeing the DJ to Join the Party. Proc. of CHI, Apr 2005.
M. Spasojevic, N. Bhatti, L. Kontothanassis, S. Roy. Understanding the Impact of Diverse Streaming Workloads on End-User Quality of Service. Proc. Int. Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution. Sep 2005.
T. Kindberg, E. Tallyn, R. Rajani, M. Spasojevic. Active Photos. Proc. Designing Interactive Computing Systems 2004.
M. Fleck, M. Frid, T. Kindberg, E. O'Brian-Strain, R. Rajani, M. Spasojevic. From Informing to Remembering: Deploying a Ubiquitous System in an Interactive Science Museum. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Apr-June 2002.
T. Kindberg, J. Barton, J. Morgan, G. Becker, D. Caswell, P. Debaty, G. Gopal, M. Frid, V. Krishnan, H. Morris, J. Schettino, B. Serra, M. Spasojevic, "People, Places, Things: Web Presence for the Real World," Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Dec 2000. & MONET Vol. 7, No. 5 (October 2002).
G. Alvarez, E. Borowsky, S. Go, T. Romer, R. Becker-Szendy, R. Golding, A. Merchant, M. Spasojevic, A. Veitch, J. Wilkes. Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large scale storage systems. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 19(4): 483-518, Nov 2001.
M. Spasojevic, M. Satyanarayanan. An Empirical Study of a Wide-Area Distributed File System. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol 14, no 2, May 1996.
M. Spasojevic, M. Bowman, A. Spector. Using Wide-Area File Systems Within the World-Wide Web, Second Int. WWW Conference, Oct 1994.
Conference organizer and member of the program committees:
I live in Palo Alto, very close to NRC, with my husband and our two daughters.
