Gloria Mark

PhD, Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and Author of “Attention Span: Find Focus, Fight Distraction”

Leading informatics professor, studying digital media's impact, renowned author, speaker, and researcher.

Can Conversational AI Revive Our Declining Attention Spans?

For decades, Gloria Mark, PhD, has been studying technology use in real-world environments that she describes as "living laboratories." Her book "Attention Span" looks for ways that we can live with and use technology while maintaining a healthy psychological balance.

Gloria Mark is Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD from Columbia University in psychology and studies the impact of digital media on people’s lives. She takes a deep dive in examining multitasking, interruptions, and mood with the use of digital devices.

She has published over 200 articles, and in 2017 was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy which recognizes leaders in the field of human-computer interaction. She has presented her work at SXSW and the Aspen Ideas Festival, and her research has appeared in the popular media, e.g. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Atlantic, the BBC, and many others. She is also the author of “Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness, and Productivity” which rediscovers your ability to pay attention with this groundbreaking new approach from “the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking”. You can learn more in Gloria’s substack.