| Margaret McLaughlin, PhD | ||||||||||||||
| Professor Annenberg School for Communication |
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BS 1965 French, English, Speech, University of Mississippi
MS 1966 Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD 1972 Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Started at USC: 1982
Research Topics: Haptics, virtual environments, health communication technologies
Research Description
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 environments including applications in medical training and simulation. 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, the Ford Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.
Role in ISNSR:
Professor McLaughlinÕs role in the project, along with colleague Dr. Albert Rizzo, is to develop collaborative virtual environments (VEs) that include different types of haptic sensory feedback and to evaluate the effectiveness of these applications for neurorehabilitation training. The tasks to be performed within these VEs span a range of activities from everyday functional tasks to game-like activities designed to motivate specific motor action. A particular objective is to develop task-specific virtual exercise environments that will trigger and reinforce the compensatory brain mechanisms that facilitate recovery from stroke.
Selected Publications
McLaughlin, M. L., Zhu, W., Peng, W., Jung, Y., & Jin, S. (to appear). Touch in computer-mediated communication. In E. A. Konijn, M. Tanis, S. Utz, & A. Linden (Eds.), Mediated Interpersonal Communication. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
McLaughlin, M. L. (to appear). Simulating the sense of touch in virtual environments: Applications in the health sciences. In P. Messaris and L. Humphreys (Eds.), Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication. Peter Lang Publishers.
Yeh, S., Rizzo, A., Zhu, W., Stewart, J., McLaughlin, M., Cohen, I., Jung, Y., & Peng, W. (to appear). An Integrated System: Virtual Reality, Haptics and Modern Sensing Technique (VHS) for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology.
Margaret McLaughlin, Albert Rizzo, Younbo Jung, Wei Peng, Shih-Ching Yeh, Weirong Zhu, and the USC/UT Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research (2005). Haptics-enhanced virtual environments for stroke rehabilitation. Proc. IPSI 2005, Cambridge, MA.
Rizzo, A., McLaughlin, M., Jung, Y., Peng, W., Yeh, S., Zhu, W., and USC/UT Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research (accepted for presentation). Virtual therapeutic environments with haptics: An interdisciplinary approach for developing post-stroke rehabilitation. Proc. CPSN'05 - The 2005 International Conference on Computers for People with Special Needs.
McLaughlin, M., Shahabi, C., Park, N., Zhu, W., & Navai, B. (2005). Recognizing user state from haptic data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications.
Grunwald, T., Clark, D., Fisher, S., McLaughlin, M., Narayanan, S., & Piepol, D. (2004). Using Cognitive Task Analysis to Facilitate Collaboration in Development of Simulator to Accelerate Surgical Training. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference.
Lazzari, M., Francois, A., McLaughlin, M. L., Jaskowiak, J., Wong, W. L., Akbarian, M., Peng, W., and Zhu, W. (2003). Using haptics and a "virtual mirror" to exhibit museum objects with reflective surfaces. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics.
McLaughlin, M. L., Sukhatme, G., Peng, W., Zhu, W., & Parks, J. (2003). Performance and co-presence in heterogeneous haptic collaboration. Proceedings of IEEE VR 2003, pp. 285-291.
McLaughlin, M. L., Hespanha, J., & Sukhatme, G. (2002). Touch in virtual environments: Haptics and the design of interactive systems. Prentice-Hall.
The Center is funded as part of the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Initiative, grant number P20 RR20700-01. NIH Program Administrator: Dr. Greg Faber
