Justine Cassell

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Justine Cassell
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Born	March 19, 1960 (1960-03-19) (age 48) New York City
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.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Current Research 3 Affiliations 4 Bibliography 5 Selected publications 6 See also 7 External links

[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.

[edit] Selected publications

• http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/justine/jc_papers.htm

[edit] See also

• Embodied conversational agent

[edit] External links

• Justine Cassell's home page
• Northwestern's Articulab
• Center for Technology and Social Behavior
• MIT's Gesture and Narrative Language Group