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Susan R. Fussell is a Professor in the Department of Communication and the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, where she also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Communication. She has joint appointments in both departments and leads research in human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and intercultural communication.
Dr. Fussell earned her Ph.D. in Social and Cognitive Psychology from Columbia University, working with Robert Krauss. She received her B.S. in Psychology & Sociology from Tufts University and was a NIMH post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University, where she worked with Sam Glucksberg on social dimensions of figurative language use. Prior to joining Cornell, she was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Her research focuses on interpersonal communication in face-to-face and computer-mediated contexts, with goals to enhance theoretical understanding of conversational discourse mechanisms and apply this theory to the design and evaluation of new communications technologies. Current research areas include intercultural computer-mediated communication, multi-lingual communication, tools to promote energy saving behavior, human-robot interaction, and collaborative intelligence analysis. She examines these issues using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods across various domains.
Dr. Fussell's recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on intercultural communication and multilingual collaboration, with increasing attention to energy conservation technologies and collaborative intelligence analysis. Her work bridges computer science, communication studies, and social psychology, often examining how cultural dimensions influence communication technologies and how to design systems that better support diverse users.
- Elected to CHI Academy
- Recipient of Excellence Award from Grad Student Assembly
Dr. Fussell has advised numerous graduate students who have gone on to positions at Google, Carnegie Mellon University, National Tsing Hua University, and other institutions. Her research has been supported by multiple National Science Foundation grants, including awards #0745885, #0803733, #0968450, #1025184, #1025425, #1314778, and #1318899, as well as Google Faculty Gifts. She also served as a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation from 2010-2012.
She leads a vibrant research group that includes graduate students and collaborators from multiple institutions, focusing on developing and evaluating technologies that support effective communication and collaboration across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Current projects include Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication, Multilingual Communication, Social-computational support of civic engagement, Collaboration in Intelligence Analysis, and Leveraging the Internet to motivate energy-saving behavior.
