Introduction to this special issue: the future of remote work: responses to the pandemic

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

Gloria Mark was in part supported by the National Science Foundation under grant #1928718. Andrew Kun was in part supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CMMI-1840085.

Notes on contributors

Gloria Mark

Gloria Mark [email protected], https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/Home_page/Welcome.html) is Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her primary research interest is in understanding the impact of digital media on people’s lives through studying people’s multitasking, mood and behavior while using computing technology in real world environments.

Andrew L. Kun

Andrew L. Kun ([email protected], http://www.andrewkun.com) is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. His research is focused on emerging trends in human-computer interaction for automated vehicles and for remote work.

Sean Rintel

Sean Rintel ([email protected], https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/serintel/) is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge (UK). He is a sociologist of communication technology, exploring remote and hybrid meetings.

Abigail Sellen

Abigail Sellen ([email protected], https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/asellen/) is Deputy Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK). She also oversees the lab’s portfolio of research exploring the future of work, taking an interdisciplinary approach to designing and developing new productivity tools that work in partnership with people.