Professor Pat Healey
Professor of Human Interaction & Turing Fellow
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Engineering, Queen Mary
p.healey@qmul.ac.uk
www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/profiles/healeypat.html
Research
models of human communication, communicative actions, theories of interaction
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. Pat’s 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.
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to Applied Data Science
The Dynamics of Conversational DialogueES/F027117/1Purver MRJ, Kempson RM, Healey PG and Meyer-Viol WP
£580,525 Economic and Social Research Council (02-01-2008 - 30-03-2011)