Kerry Rodden

Kerry Rodden is a quantitative user experience researcher at YouTube. Formerly, she led the quantitative user experience research team at Google, and has worked on improving the user experience of products including web search and Gmail. She is interested in large-scale data analysis, information visualization, personal information management, image browsing, and eye-tracking. (Personal home page)

Google Publications

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    Best of Both Worlds: Improving Gmail Labels with the Affordances of Folders

    Kerry Rodden, Michael Leggett

    Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2010, ACM

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    Measuring the User Experience on a Large Scale: User-Centered Metrics for Web Applications

    Kerry Rodden, Hilary Hutchinson, Xin Fu

    Proceedings of CHI 2010, ACM Press

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    Eye-Mouse Coordination Patterns on Web Search Results Pages

    Kerry Rodden, Xin Fu, Anne Aula, Ian Spiro

    Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2008, ACM Press

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    User experience at Google: focus on the user and all else will follow

    Irene Au, Richard Boardman, Robin Jeffries, Patrick Larvie, Antonella Pavese, Jens Riegelsberger, Kerry Rodden, Molly Stevens

    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI, ACM Press, New York, NY, US (2008), pp. 3681-3686

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    Word Usage and Posting Behaviors: Modeling Bloggers with Unobtrusive Data Collection Methods

    Adam Kramer, Kerry Rodden

    Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008

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    Applying a User-Centered Metric to Identify Active Blogs

    Adam Kramer, Kerry Rodden

    Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2007, ACM

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    Exploring How Mouse Movements Relate to Eye Movements on Web Search Results Pages

    Kerry Rodden, Xin Fu

    Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Web Information Seeking and Interaction, pp. 29-32

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    Incorporating Eyetracking into User Studies at Google

    Laura A. Granka, Kerry Rodden

    Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 workshop on Getting a Measure of Satisfaction from Eyetracking in Practice

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    Scaling the card sort method to over 500 items: restructuring the Google AdWords Help Center

    Yelena Nakhimovsky, Rudy Schusteritsch, Kerry Rodden

    Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006, pp. 183 - 188

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    Mobile search with text messages: designing the user experience for Google SMS

    Rudy Schusteritsch, Shailendra Rao, Kerry Rodden

    Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005

Previous Publications

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    Smartback: supporting users in back navigation

    Natasa Milic-Frayling, Rachel Jones, Kerry Rodden, Gavin Smyth, Alan F. Blackwell, Ralph Sommerer

    WWW (2004), pp. 63-71

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    How do people manage their digital photographs?

    Kerry Rodden, Kenneth R. Wood

    CHI (2003), pp. 409-416

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    WebScout: Support for Revisitation of Web Pages within a Navigation Session

    Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Kerry Rodden

    Web Intelligence (2003), pp. 689-693

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    Does organisation by similarity assist image browsing?

    Kerry Rodden, Wojciech Basalaj, David Sinclair, Kenneth R. Wood

    CHI (2001), pp. 190-197

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    Evaluating a Visualisation of Image Similarity (poster abstract)

    Kerry Rodden, Wojciech Basalaj, David Sinclair, Kenneth R. Wood

    SIGIR (1999), pp. 275-276

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    Evaluating a Visualization of Image Similarity as a Tool for Image Browsing

    Kerry Rodden, Wojciech Basalaj, David Sinclair, Kenneth R. Wood

    Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization (1999), pp. 36-43

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    The Order of Things: Activity-Centred Information Access,

    Matthew Chalmers, Kerry Rodden, Dominique Brodbeck

    Computer Networks, vol. 30 (1998), pp. 359-367

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    Providing World Wide Access to Historical Sources

    Tim Mills, Ken Moody, Kerry Rodden

    Computer Networks, vol. 29 (1997), pp. 1317-1325