Jennifer Mankoff

Jennifer Mankoff is an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she joined the faculty in 2004. She earned her B.A. at Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology advised by Gregory Abowd and Scott Hudson. She was faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley between 2001 and 2004.

Her research focuses on tools and techniques for rapid, iterative prototyping of ubiquitous computing applications and accessible technology for people with disabilities. Her research interests also include mediation of ambiguous, recognition-based interfaces. Application areas of her work include assistive technology for people with special needs and the elderly, and health and safety. She was awarded the Sloan Fellowship in 2007 and the IBM Faculty Fellowship in 2004 & 2006.

Selected Publications

Mankoff has authored and co-authored over 30 full-length, significant scientific publications. Here are some selected ones.
* Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff and Jeff Heer, "Momento: Support for situated ubicomp experimentation," In Proceedings of CHI 2007
* Jennifer Mankoff, Deanna Matthews, Susan R. Fussell and Michael Johnson, Leveraging Social Networks to Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints, Proceedings of HICSS 2007
* Mankoff, J., Fait, H., and Tran, T. Is your web page accessible? A comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind. In Proceedings of CHI 2005. 41-50.
* Scott Carter and Jennifer Mankoff, "When Participants do the capturing: The role of media in diary studies," In Proceedings of CHI 2005 pp. 899-908. Nominated for best paper award.
* Demi Mankoff, Anind Dey, Jennifer Mankoff, and Kenneth Mankoff. Supporting Interspecies Social Awareness: Using Peripheral Displays for Distributed Pack Awareness. In Proceedings of UIST 2005. pp. 253-258. Satire. (ACM DOI)

External links

* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jmankoff/ Mankoff's personal home page]
* [http://www.qolt.org/People/Bio.jsp?id=13 Quality of Life Technology Center]
* [http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/ Human-Computer Interaction Institute]