Geri Gay
Dr. Geri Gay is the Kenneth J. Bissett Professor of Communication and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. She earned her Ph.D. in Education from Cornell, where she now serves in both the Department of Communication and the Department of Information Science. As the director of the Interaction Design Lab, she dives deep into the social and technical facets of interactive communication technologies.
Her research spans a variety of areas like social navigation, persuasive computing, and affective computing. Dr. Gay is particularly intrigued by how technology design shapes user interaction and social behavior. She's secured funding from big names such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USDA, Google, and various private donors.
An active voice in her field, she not only teaches courses on human-computer interaction and communication but also has a prolific publication record. She's been featured in leading journals and conference proceedings like IEEE, the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, and the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. She co-edited the book Information Technologies in Evaluation: Social, Moral, Epistemological, and Practical Implications and co-authored Activity-Based Design. Her contributions have significantly propelled our understanding of human-computer interaction and the design of communication systems.
Most Cited Publications:
Joachims, T., Granka, L., Pan, B., Hembrooke, H., & Gay, G. (2017, August). Accurately interpreting clickthrough data as implicit feedback. In Acm Sigir Forum (Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 4-11). New York, NY, USA: Acm.
Granka, L. A., Joachims, T., & Gay, G. (2004, July). Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search. In Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp. 478-479).
Pan, B., Hembrooke, H., Joachims, T., Lorigo, L., Gay, G., & Granka, L. (2007). In Google we trust: Users’ decisions on rank, position, and relevance. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 12(3), 801-823.
Joachims, T., Granka, L., Pan, B., Hembrooke, H., Radlinski, F., & Gay, G. (2007). Evaluating the accuracy of implicit feedback from clicks and query reformulations in web search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 25(2), 7-es.
Hembrooke, H., & Gay, G. (2003). The laptop and the lecture: The effects of multitasking in learning environments. Journal of computing in higher education, 15, 46-64.
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