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-rcf.usc.edu/~mmclaugh/

Margaret McLaughlin is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, a key investigator at USC's Integrated Media Systems Center, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, and an investigator with ISNSR, a center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Neuroplasticity and Stroke Rehabilitation. Her current research focuses on the design and evaluation of haptic (tactile) systems for functional recovery from stroke, and access to Internet technologies for the elderly. 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 was the founder and Co-Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Discourse and Communication, Discourse Studies, New Media and Society, and Journal of Communication. She has also served on the editorial boards of Text, 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, KNBC, KABC, and TechTV, and in articles in Time Asia , E-Commerce Times and Technology Review. Support for her research has been provided by the Annenberg Center for Communication, Hitachi America, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Ford Foundation.