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Gale Lucas

Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Psychology

Education




    Biography

    Gale M. Lucas is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in the Viterbi School of Engineering and works at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). She obtained her BA from Willamette University in 2005 and her PhD from Northwestern University in 2010. After teaching for a couple of years at small liberal arts colleges, she went back for a post-doc. She completed her post-doc with Dr. Jon Gratch at ICT, and then stayed on at ICT as a senior research associate before becoming research faculty.

    Research Summary

    Dr. Lucas works in the areas of human-computer interaction, affective computing, and trust-in-automation. Her research focuses on rapport, disclosure, trust, persuasion, and negotiation with virtual agents and social robots.

    Appointments
    • Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
    • Psychology
    • Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    Office
    • Gale Lucas has not listed an office location.
    Contact Information
    • lucas@ict.usc.edu
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