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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 Bachelor of Arts from Willamette University in 2005 and her PhD from Northwestern University in 2010. After teaching for several years at small liberal arts colleges, she returned to complete a post-doc under Dr. Jon Gratch at ICT, where she then worked as a senior research associate and became part of the research faculty. Dr. Lucas's research focuses on human-computer interaction, affective computing, and trust in automation. Her work explores topics such as rapport, disclosure, trust, persuasion, negotiation, and the behavior of virtual agents and social robots.
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