Margaret McLaughlin

Office: Annenberg School for Communication, Room 301C
University of Southern California
Phone: 213.740.3938     E-mail: mmclaugh@usc.edu
Web: http://www.ascusc.org/mclhome.html

Margaret McLaughlin is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, and a key investigator at USC's Integrated Media Systems Center, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. Her current research focuses on the design and evaluation of haptic (tactile) interfaces to WWW and desktop virtual museums and related applications. She has written or co-edited a number of books, including Touch in Virtual Environments: Haptics and the Design of Interactive Systems (Prentice Hall, 2002); Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet (AAAI/MIT Press, 1998); Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992); The Psychology of Tactical Communication (Multilingual Matters, 1990), and Conversation: How Talk is Organized (Sage, 1987). She was Editor of Volumes 9 and 10 of Communication Yearbook and Editor of Communication Monographs. She is currently Co-Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Text, New Media and Society, and Discourse Studies. She has also served on the editorial boards of Progress in Communication Sciences, Communication Research, Communication Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Human Communication Research, and International and Intercultural Communication Annual. She is a former president of the International Communication Association. McLaughlin's work on the interactive art museum and touch in virtual environments has been featured recently on CNN, KABC, KNBC, and TechTV, and in articles in Time Asia and Technology Review. Support for her research has been provided by the Annenberg Center for Communication, Hitachi America, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.