Gale Lucas
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education
Biography
Gale Lucas is a research assistant 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 a research assistant professor.
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
- Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office
- Gale Lucas has not listed an office location.
Contact Information
- lucas@ict.usc.edu