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Faculty
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Clifford Nass [website]
Director of the CHIMe Lab, Co-Director of the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory (KGC) and Real-time Venture Design Laboratory (ReVeL)
Thomas M. Storke Professor, Department of Communication
Professor of Computer Science, by courtesy
Professor of Sociology, by courtesy
Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, by courtesy
Professor of Symbolic Systems, by courtesy
Interests: Social responses to communication technologies; psychology of intelligent systems and agents; social psychology of natural language; psychology of ubiquitous computing; statistical methods (particularly non-parametric statistics).
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Ph.D. Students
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David Danielson
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication
Interests: Information-seeking behavior; trust and credibility; usability metrics and processes; usability engineering.
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Farah Giga
Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication
Interests:
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Victoria Groom
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication
Interests: Human-robot interaction; social robotics; embodiment; social responses in virtual environments.
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Michelle Gumbrecht [website]
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology
Interests: Psycholinguistics; computer-mediated communication; blogging.
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Helen Harris
Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication
Interests: Driver user interfaces; emotion and emotion regulation in cars; robots in cars.
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John Hu
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication
Interests: Multimodal interfaces; interface and interaction design; psycholinguistics; user studies; experimental design; ubiquitous computing; CSCW; media effects.
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Yeon Joo
Ph.D.Student, Department of Communication
Interests: Human-vehicle interaction; learning with enjoyment; emotion and human-computer interfaces.
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Jeamin Koo
Ph.D. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Emotion-based human-vehicle interaction; human-machine interaction.
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J. Roselyn Lee
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication
Interests: Effects of communication modalities in CMC and HCI; avatar-based social interaction; embodied computer agents.
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Heidy Maldonado
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Education
Interests: Educational technologies; cross-cultural design; emotional engagement with technological artifacts; computer characters; wireless handheld devices for learning and activism; robot-human interaction; digital divides within classrooms and across nations; videogame design; online communities.
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Mike Nowak
Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication
Interests: Online social media; mobile interfaces; design for developing-world contexts.
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Shailo Rao
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication
Interests: Personalization; adaptive systems; affective computing.
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Erica Robles [website]
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication
Interests: Social, cultural, and psychological aspects of the individual experience of publicness in new media environments (self-monitoring, anxiety, power, visibility, identity management and construction, value-sensitive design of technological affordances that impact the degree of publicness experienced across a variety of social settings).
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Piya Sorcar [website]
Ph.D. Student, School of Education
Interests: Social responses to interactive media in formal and informal learning environments; mobile and ubiquitous computing; international comparative education and learning sciences. |
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Abhay Sukumaran
Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication
Interests: Mobile interaction; social media and online communities; social factors in digital media in developing countries.
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Leila Takayama [website]
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication
Interests: Social and cognitive psychology of human-computer interaction; laboratory and field experiments; context-aware, mobile, and ubiquitous media; human-robot interaction; driver user interfaces; throwing voices; voice interfaces; applied statistics.
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Qianying (Jane) Wang [website]
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication
Interests: Social and psychological aspects of collaborative environments; ubiquitous computing; digital ownership (what is the meaning of being personal for digital content); social impact of hardware design for input devices; digital photo collection management and retrieval; novel interfaces for hand-held devices.
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Masters and Undergraduate Students
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Abe Chiang
Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Human-computer interaction; driver user interfaces; mobile-device computing environments; collaborative design tools and workspaces.
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Paloma Ochi
Research Assistant, Department of Communication
Interests: Personalization; human-robot interaction.
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Eyal Ophir
Research Assistant, Department of Communication
Interests: Cognitive and social principles for multimedia design; socially intelligent agents (cars and computers); mobile interfaces; design for developing-world contexts; multitasking; ubiquitous computing; context-aware computing.
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Jessica Yuan
Research Assistant, Department of Communication
Interests: Human-robot interaction; voices and embodiment; driver user interfaces; social interaction in immersive virtual environments.
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Alumni
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Wendy Ju
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Interactive workspaces; implicit interactions; collaborative design teams; colearning agents.
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Takayama, L. & Nass, C. (2008). Driver safety and information from afar: An experimental study of wireless vs. in-car information services. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
Lee, J.-E. R., Nass, C., Brave, S., Morishima, Y., Nakajima, H., & Yamada, R. (2007). The case for caring co-learners: The effects of a computer-mediated co-learner agent on trust and learning. Journal of Communication.
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Wired for Speech wins the 2007 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award for 2005-2006.
Interested in doing research with the lab? We work with undergraduate student researchers (SRs), providing opportunities for direct hands-on experience with laboratory research.
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