Scholar
Jonathan Gratch
Google Scholar ID: HF448PMAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science and Psychology, University of Southern
Citations & Impact
Citations
12,340
H-index
49
i10-index
224
Publications
20
Co-authors
143
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Director for Virtual Human Research, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
- Director, USC Affective Computing Group
- Research Professor of Computer Science, Psychology and Media Arts and Practice at USC
- Leads the Virtual Human Project, integrating intelligent tutoring, natural language processing, interactive narrative, emotion modeling, and immersive audiovisual technologies
- Developed training prototypes such as the Mission Rehearsal Exercise (MRE) and Stability and Support Operations (SASO)
- Rapport project uses machine vision and prosody analysis to enable virtual humans to detect and respond in real-time to human gestures, facial expressions, and emotional cues
- Researches anthropomorphism in human-machine interaction, examining whether human-like machine traits benefit or hinder team performance
