Mark S. Ackerman

Social Sciences · University of Michigan

Established · publishing since 1981

Knowledge Management and Sharing Personal Information Management and User Behavior Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Usability and User Interface Design Expert finding and Q&A systems

Publications

245

Citations

13,583

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1981

In context

Among 1,148 established Social Sciences PIs within our index

Citations: 13,583cohort median 1,166

Publications / year (recent): 5.6cohort median 2.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 41% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 8 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.6/year recently

Collaborators per year

Distinct co-authors at University of Michigan each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.

Recent publications

Enhancing Pediatric Communication: The Role of an AI-Driven Chatbot in Facilitating Child-Parent-Provider Interaction
2025
Editorial
International Journal of Social Robotics · 2025
Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2024
Home Office: Working from a Private Place
Business & Information Systems Engineering · 2023
Calibrated Uncertainty: How In-Vitro Fertilization Patients Use Information to Regulate Emotion
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2023
“So What? What's That to Do With Me?” Expectations of People With Visual Impairments for Image Descriptions in Their Personal Photo Activities
Designing Interactive Systems Conference · 2022
Learning from Family Mysteries
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2021
Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021
Rating Friends Without Making Enemies
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021
Culture Matters: A Survey Study of Social Q&A Behavior
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021
The Role of Digitalization in Improving the Quality of Live in Rural (Industrialized) Regions
2021
Call for Papers, Issue 3/2023
Business & Information Systems Engineering · 2021
Crowdsourced Detection of Emotionally Manipulative Language
2020
Senior Design In A Paperless Environment
2020
Localness of Location-based Knowledge Sharing
ACM Transactions on the Web · 2018

Publishes in

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction×9
Elsevier eBooks×4
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media×3
Public Understanding of Science×2
Science and Public Policy×2

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Last updated Jul 25, 2026.

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