Darren Gergle is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Communication Studies and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Northwestern University. He is also a member of the Center for Technology and Social Behavior, and can advise students in all of these areas including the new Technology and Social Behavior joint PhD in Computer Science and Communication Studies. His research laboratory is the CollaboLab, the laboratory for understanding collaborative technology. He received his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from the Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where his work was supported by an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship.
His research is in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) with an interest in developing a theoretical understanding of the role that visual information plays in supporting communication and small group interactions. He is also interested in applying social and cognitive psychology theory to the design, deployment and evaluation of computing technologies.His recent colleagues and co-authors include Robert Kraut, Susan Fussell, Carolyn Rose, Susan Brennan, Sara Kiesler, and Desney Tan. In the past he was an intern with David Millen and the Collaborative User Experience (CUE) research group at IBM T.J. Watson Research in Cambridge, MA. Prior to his doctoral work, he received an MS in HCI from the University of Michigan School of Information where he worked with Judy Olson in the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW).
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I have a co-authored a paper with Alastair Gill, Robert M. French and Jon Oberlander, "Emotion Rating from Short Blog Texts", that will appear at the upcoming CHI 2008 conference. [PDF] |
I have a co-authored a paper with Will Thompson, "Modeling Situated Conversational Agents as Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes", that will appear at the upcoming IUI 2008 conference. [PDF] |
Cassell, Gergle and Horton have received an IIS-HCC grant from the NSF to study the biological, contextual and social factors that influence conversational grounding behavior in people and machines. |