PROFILE:
Victoria Bellotti
Victoria Bellotti is a Principal Scientist and the developer of PARC's Opportunity Discovery research and strategic investment targeting program, which assists clients in identifying the best direction to move with new technology-centered business ventures. Victoria also studies people to understand their practices, problems, and requirements for future technology, and designs and analyzes human-centered systems, focusing on user experience.
Best known for her research on personal information management and task management, Victoria has more recently been focusing on user-centered design of context- and activity-aware computing systems. Her previous work at London University UK, The British Government's Department of Trade and Industry, EuroPARC, and Apple encompasses domains such as transportation, process control, computer-mediated communication, collaboration, and ubiquitous computing.
Victoria received her Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction from Queen Mary and Westfield College, an M.S. in Ergonomics and a B.S. in Psychology from University College, all within London University in the UK. She is a co-inventor on 13 patents and 9 patent applications and an author or co-author on over 50 papers and book chapters. Victoria also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Jack Baskin School of Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and in 2013 she was awarded membership of the ACM SIGCHI Academy for her contributions to the field and professional community of HCI.
PARC publications
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Innovation Services and human-centered insight
2013
Bootstrapping trust in online dating: social verification of online dating profiles
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) Workshop on Usable Security (USEC)
1 April 2013
2013 SIGCHI Awards - CHI Academy
28 January 2013
2011
Identifying routine and telltale activity patterns in knowledge work
Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)
18 September 2011
International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011)
23 May 2011
Variation in importance of time-on-task with familiarity with mobile phone models
ACM CHI 2011
7 May 2011
Tokyo to go: using field studies to inform the design of a mobile leisure guide for Japanese youth
Chapter in Making work visible: ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice
April 2011
2010
Show me a good time: using content to provide activity awareness of collaborators
GROUP 2010
7 November 2010
2009
HCI International 2009
19 July 2009
2008
Scalable architecture for context-aware activity-detecting mobile recommendation systems
Winner - Best demo at ADAMUS Workshop at WoWMoM 2008
23 June 2008
Activity-based serendipitous recommendations with the Magitti mobile leisure guide
CHI 2008
5 April 2008
Mobile recommendations for leisure activities
International Workshop on Recommendation and Collaboration at IUI 2008
13 January 2008
2007
TV-ACTA: embedding an activity-centered interface for task management in email
CEAS 2007
2 August 2007
A look at Tokyo youth at leisure: towards the design of new media to support leisure outings
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
1 April 2007
Tokyo youth at leisure: online support of leisure outings
Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology
2007
2006
Between cram school and career in Tokyo
Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference (EPIC 2006)
24 September 2006
Managing activities with TV-ACTA: TaskVista and activity-centered task assistant
SIGIR 2006 Personal Information Management Workshop
11 August 2006
Tokyo youth at leisure: towards the design of new media to support leisure planning and practice
Extended Abstracts of CHI 2006
22 April 2006
2005
Quality versus quantity: e-mail-centric task management and its relation with overload
Human-Computer Interaction
2005
Introduction to this special issue on revisiting and reinventing e-mail
Human-Computer Interaction
28 June 2005
Introduction to special issue on sensing-based interaction
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
1 January 2005
2004
What a to-do: studies of task management towards the design of a personal task list manager
CHI 2004
24 April 2004
2003
Taking email to task: the design and evaluation of a task management centered email tool
CHI 2003
5 April 2003
2002
Taskmaster: recasting email as task management
CSCW 2002 Workshop on Re-designing E-mail for the 21st Century
16 November 2002
BayCHI Meeting
9 July 2002
Making sense of sensing systems: five questions for designers and researchers
CHI 2002
20 April 2002
2001
Intelligibility and accountability: human considerations in context aware systems
Human Computer Interaction
February 2001
Email as a habitat: an exploration of embedded personal information management
Interactions
September 2001
2000
Informing the design of an information management system with iterative fieldwork
DIS 2000
17 August 2000
1996
Your place or mine? learning from long-term use of audio-video communication
CSCW: The Journal of Collaborative Computing
March 1996
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related focus areas
related competencies
- ethnography
- socio-cognitive computing
- ubiquitous computing
blog posts view all 
Finding inbox meaning in a time of overload
posted 4 February 2011
Ethnography in industry: Objectives?
posted 27 April 2010
in the news
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Reinventing Innovation at PARC
28 July 2011 | Harvard Business Review HBR Blog Network
A tour around “first church of technology” PARC [videos]
17 May 2011 | Scobleizer
How We Waste Time on Email
28 February 2011 | Private Equity Hub
news releases
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PARC Scientists Honored, PARC Innovation Business Strategy Recognized
5 February 2013
events
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Random Acts of Kindness: The Intelligent and Context-Aware Future of Reciprocal Altruism and Community Collaboration
23 May 2013 | San Diego, CA
Bootstrapping Trust in Online Dating: Social Verification of Online Dating Profiles
1 April 2013 | Okinawa, Japan
Overloaded 2013
9 February 2013 | San Francisco, CA