Mary Beth Rosson is the director of graduate programs and professor at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology.
[1] Most of her research concentrates on End User Programming, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
Prior to teaching at Penn State, Rosson taught at the Virginia Tech Computer Science department for 10 years and worked as a research staff manager at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center for 11 years.
[5] Rosson and Carroll have co-authored a book, Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction.
She has authored or co-authored over one hundred journal articles and refereed conference proceedings[6] Rosson has over 423 publications as of 2022.