ICT would like to celebrate Dr. Gale M. Lucas, Director, Technology Evaluation Lab, ICT, on her promotion to Research Associate Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Dr. Lucas holds a BA in Psychology from Willamette University, a PhD in Psychology from Northwestern University, and did her postdoctoral study in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Southern California (USC). She joined ICT in 2013 as a Postdoc in the Affective Computing Lab, became a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi School of Engineering in July 2018, and then was promoted to Research Associate Professor in July 2024.
As Director of ICT’s Technology Evaluation Lab, Dr. Lucas conducts lines of research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Human-Building Interaction (HBI) with the goal to optimize interaction, and subsequent outcomes, between humans and social intelligence, including virtual agents, social robots, and other social interfaces in the built environment.
Alongside her role as Research Associate Professor, VSOE and Director, Technology Evaluation Lab, ICT, Dr. Lucas continues to serve as Co-Director of CENTIENTS, Center for Intelligent Environments, a cross-disciplinary partnership with the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California.
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For more background on Dr. Lucas’s work, please read this essay which she wrote to celebrate #ICT25: Using AI to Help Humans and watch this video:
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