Clifford Nass

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Clifford Nass

Clifford Nass is a professor in the Communication Department at Stanford University and a renowned authority on Human Computer Interaction. Nass also holds courtesy appointments in Science, Technology, and Society, Sociology, and Symbolic Systems departments at the university. Nass is the director of the Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Lab at Stanford University. Aside from the above roles, Nass is also the co-director of Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory (KGC) at Stanford University and its Real-time Venture Design Laboratory (ReVeL).

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[edit] Personal History

Clifford Nass earned a B.A. cum laude in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1981. He then conducted research in the areas of computer graphics, data structures and database design for IBM and Intel before coming back to Princeton for a doctoral program in sociology. Clifford Nass got his Ph.D in sociology from Princeton University in 1986. http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/nass.html

[edit] Research and Books

He is the author of two books, "The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Televisions, and New Media Like Real People and Places" (published by Cambridge University Press) and "Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship" (published by MIT Press). He has also published well over 100 articles in the area of HCI, Statistical methodology and oprganizational theory. "He is credited with the founding of the "Computers are Social Actors" paradigm. Nass has consulted on the design of over 200 media products and services for companies including Microsoft, Toyota, Philips, BMW, Hewlett-Packard, AOL, Charles Schwab, and US West." http://www.parc.xerox.com/cms/get_article.php?id=496

[edit] Media References

Clifford Nass has also appeared numerous times on television and radio including BBC, NPR and PBS. Clifford Nass was interviewed for a three-hour PBS documentary, "Do you Speak American?". Media references -

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