Burris PSY496 Final Project

The Experts

Jonathan Gratch, PhD

Full Research Professor & Associate Professor

•Southern CA Institute for Creative Technologies

•Director for Virtual Human Research

•Professor of Computer Science & Psychology

•University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign (1995) | PhD

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Research Interests:

•Cognitive Modeling & Human-Computer Interaction

•Emotion Modeling

•Virtual Humans

•Social Emotions and Rapport

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Personal Statement

 "My research is directed toward developing human-like software agents for virtual training environments and to use these computational methods to concretize psychological theories of human behavior.”

http://people.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/ 

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Sherry Turkle, Ph.D.

Professor & Licensed Clinical Psychologist

•Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

•Director of MIT Initiative on Technology and Self

•Professor of Social Studies of Science & Technology

•Harvard University, sociology and personality psychology |PhD

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Research Interests

•Mobile Technologies & Social Networking

•Sociable Robotics

•Relationships with Technology (esp. computers)

•Evolving Relationships in a Digital Culture

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Personal Statement

“What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.”

http://www.azquotes.com/author/19416-Sherry_Turkle