Prof Pat Healey

Pat Healey

Professor of Human Interaction
Head of The Centre for Human-Centred Computing

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/people/profiles/healeypat.html
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

Research

Human Interaction, Communication, Dialogue

Interests

Digital technologies provide uniquely flexible media with the potential to transform human communication. They offer new ways to capture, modify and project communicative actions (e.g., words, gestures and expressions). This creates the potential for new forms of mutual-engagement and new forms of language. My research applies models of human communication - drawn mainly from Psychology and Sociology - to understanding these processes. It uses technology both as an experimental tool for the study of interaction and as an application area for testing and developing theories of interaction.