Shannon Gray DREU

The Articulab studies human interaction with technology in cognitive science, communication studies, learning sciences, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and many other related disciplines.  They study how people communicate with and through technology. They use technology as a way of better studying human-human communication, and use the study of human-human communication to design better technology.

Their research includes the interaction between humans and the virtual humans we call Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA), as well as how humans interact with each other through computer-mediated contexts on the Internet and in online communities. They are also interested in how gender and ethnicity mediate technology use, including issues of power and empowerment. Finally, they are interested in how technology can be used for positive educational and developmental initiatives, such as ensuring that children who come to school speaking non-mainstream dialects of English can maintain these important indices of culture and identity, while still achieving school success, and scaffolding social skills for children with autism.

More information can be found on the projects, people and publications of the ArticuLab website.