Darren Gergle

Assistant Professor

dgergle [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Darren Gergle (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University) is the director of the CollaboLab and is a faculty member in the Communication Studies and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science departments at Northwestern University. He is an affiliate of the Center for Technology and Social Behavior and also directs the Mobile Tracking Laboratory.

Darren is broadly interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). His research program focuses on developing a theoretical understanding of the role that technology plays in supporting group interaction, and using this theoretical understanding, in turn, to develop innovative technologies to support group interaction.

Emilee Rader

Post-Doctoral Fellow

ejrader [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Emilee Rader (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Technology and Social Behavior, and joined the lab in 2009. She earned a Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, and spent five years working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Motorola Labs, before completing the doctoral program in the School of Information at Michigan. Her current work reflects her interests in information organization, sharing, and reuse; technology-mediated communication; knowledge management; and the psychology of language.

Patti Bao

PhD Student

pattibao [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Patti (BA, University of California, Berkeley) is a Ph.D. student in the Technology & Social Behavior program. She completed her custom undergraduate degree on information technology for society, and joined the lab in Fall 2007. She is interested in group interactions, the perception of visual information, and the use of visualization in social computing.

Alan Clark

PhD Student

alan-clark [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Alan (BA, Hamilton College) is a Ph.D. student in the Media, Technology & Society program. He completed his undergraduate degree in Communication and has been working in the lab since the summer of 2008. He is interested in telepresence and cooperation in shared virtual spaces, and has also been developing tools to study how people adapt language processes.

Brent Hecht

PhD Student

brent [at] u [dot] northwestern

Brent (BA, Macalester College; MA, University of California, Santa Barbara) is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. He recently completed his Masters in Geography. He is expanding beyond all that is spatial, although he still interested in the analogies that space can provide. His main fascinations currently include information retrieval, natural language processing, data exploration, and information visualization. When not being an academe, Brent enjoys country music, traveling, and learning random things about the world.

Brian Keegan

PhD Student

bkeegan [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Brian (BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a Ph.D. student in the Media, Technology & Society program. He completed his undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Science and Technology Studies, and joined the lab in 2007. His current research interests are in group dynamics and organizational processes in computer-mediated collaborative communities. He uses methods in social network analysis and agent-based modeling to understand decision-making, consensus-formation, gate-keeping, and other social influence phenomena in environments like Wikipedia and MMOGS.

Sheena Lewis

PhD Student

sheena [at] u [dot] northwestern.edu

Sheena Lewis (BS, Spelman College; MS Georgia Institute of Technology) is a Ph.D. student in the Technology and Social Behavior program. Her Bachelors degrees are in Computer Science and Mathematics and her Masters degree is in Computer Science specializing in HCI. Her research interests lie in the intersection of culture and technology.

Alina Lungeanu

PhD Student

alina.lungeanu [at] u.northwestern.edu

Alina (BS & MS in Management Information Systems, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest) is a Ph.D. student in the Technology and Social Behavior program. Before joining the program, she worked in IT consulting for over 6 years in Europe and Asia. She is interested in understanding how communication technologies may affect collaboration in diverse and dispersed groups.

Lauren Scissors

PhD Student

l-scissors [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Lauren (BA, Northwestern University) is a Ph.D. student in the Media, Technology & Society program. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Sociology, and joined the lab in the Fall of 2007. She spent the summer of 2007 working on the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Her primary research interest is in understanding the role computer-mediated communication technologies play in interpersonal relationships.

Kathleen Geraghty

Research Associate

k-geraghty [at] northwestern

Kathleen Geraghty (BA, Alverno College; MSc, University of Edinburgh) is a Research Associate in the CollaboLab and in the ArticuLab. Her primary research interest is the influence of social factors in language acquisition. In the labs, she works on a variety of linguistics-related projects. Outside of research, she enjoys traveling, running, and supporting her favorite local Chicago actor.

David Hartglass

davidhartglass2010 [at] u.northwestern

David Hartglass is an undergraduate Computer Science major at Northwestern University. Currently he assists graduate student Chris Karr with his context-aware computing applications. He looks forward to working more with the Collabolab in the future and broadening his experience. In addition to learning about computing, David enjoys music, running, and hanging out with friends.

Sherry Lin

sherry [dot] lin [at] u.northwestern

Sherry Lin is a Communication Studies and International Studies double major at Northwestern University. Currently, she works on data from various studies aimed at understanding language and communication. Outside the CollaboLab, she is part of the Club Rugby team and a member of the Women's Chorus. In her free time, she enjoys sleeping excessively, travelling, theater, and movies.

Kristina Rodriguez

kristinarodriguez2011 [at] u.northwestern

Kristina is an undergraduate Communication Sciences and Disorders major at Northwestern University. She is currently finishing up all of her pre-med requirements and preparing for the MCAT. AHHH! When she's not cowering in fear, she enjoys being with friends, baking, and watching ridiculous foreign films.
 

Luke Rouser

rouser [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Luke is a Northwestern graduate who got his BA in classical Greek and modern Italian. Taking some time to focus on writing and working as an activist and sex educator in Chicago, he hopes to channel his interests in minority education and awareness into a career as a librarian. In a cruel mix-up of fate, he is a good student who doesn't like going to school but will probably never leave. He also likes ribbons.

Nandita Seshadri

nanditaseshadri2007 [at] u.northwestern

Nandita is an undergraduate Cognitive Science/RTVF major. In addition to working at the Collabolab she also does Cognitive Dissonance and Rationalization research at the Kellogg School of Management. She thinks machine learning is the coolest thing ever, apart from Martian Manhunter who is by far the most awesome member of the Justice League.
 

Josh Waytz

j-waytz [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Josh Waytz is an Economics and Psychology major at Northwestern University. Josh is excited about working at the CollaboLab and is interested in seeing the impact of technology on decision making and other topics related to the field of Economics. Josh is currently working on a number of projects including one concerning trust in computer-mediated communication.

Isaac Wilson

isaac-wilson [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Isaac Wilson is a Computer Science major. He currently works on mobile eye-tracking and its use for understanding group communication and mobile interactions. Outside of his research, Isaac is interested in ultimate frisbee, programming, technology, Christianity, wondering, and griping about not getting enough sleep and then staying up late with friends.

Jia Zhang

jia-zhang [at] northwestern [dot] edu

Jia Zhang is planning to major in Computing & Information Systems. She anticipates that working in CollaboLab will deepen her knowledge and appreciation of the computing field. Besides computers, her interests include listening to music, practicing jujutsu, watching movies, and eating good Chinese food.