Justine Cassell
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| Born | March 19, 1960 New York City |
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| Fields | Linguistics Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction |
| Institutions | Northwestern University MIT |
| Alma mater | Université de Besançon Dartmouth College University of Edinburgh University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | David McNeill |
| Doctoral students | Timothy Bickmore Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson Kristinn R. Thórisson |
| Known for | Linguistics Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction |
Justine Cassell (born March 19, 1960) is an American researcher interested in human-human conversation, human-computer interaction, and storytelling.
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[edit] Biography
Justine Cassell was born in New York City. She holds a DEUG in Lettres Modernes from the Université de Besançon (1981), a BA in Comparative Literature/Linguistics from Dartmouth College (1982), a M.LITT. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (1986), and a double PhD in Linguistics and Developmental/Cognitive Psychology from University of Chicago (1991) where she studied under David McNeill. She was the director of the Gesture and Narrative Language Research Group at the MIT Media Lab. She currently holds joint appointments in Communication Studies and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the rank of Professor at Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she directs the Articulab, her research lab, the Technology and Social Behavior Ph.D. program, and interdisciplinary Center for Technology and Social Behavior.
[edit] Current Research
Current research projects being supervised by Dr. Cassell include:
- Autism
- AAVE
- Grounding
- Rapport
[edit] Affiliations
Justine Cassell is affiliated with the following organizations:
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Linguistics Society of America
- Society for Research in Child Development
[edit] Bibliography
- Embodied Conversational Agents, MIT Press, 2000. First book ever published describing embodied conversational agents.
- From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, MIT Press, 1998.
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