Justine Cassell
Professor (On Leave)
Studies conversational agents and human-AI interaction, drawing on linguistics and social psychology.
Justine Cassell's lab at CMU works on human-AI collaboration & trust, social computing & responsible AI and multilingual, translation & linguistics. 10 papers since 2023, 2 at top venues, mostly ACL and EMNLP. 3 PhD students and 5 master's students. 269 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 20%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 269
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 0
- 3 papers2024 · T1 1
- 3 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, EMNLP, LREC, SIGDIAL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Social computing & responsible AI1 paper
- Human-AI collaboration & trust0 papers
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics0 papers
- conversational agents0 papers
- drawing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- Semdial - LuffDial, the Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Sep , Loughborough, United Kingdom.“They Really Clicked”: How do Multimodal LLMs Judge Rapport Between People? (opens in a new tab)
- In Findings of the 202§ Conference on Association for Computational LinguisticsFrame of Reference: Addressing the Challenges of Common Ground Representation in Situational Dialogs (opens in a new tab)
- In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION (ICMI ’26), October 05-09, , Napoli, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USAValidation of a Multi-level Self-Report Rapport Scale and its Impact on Multimodal Modeling of Small Group Interaction (opens in a new tab)
20251 paper
- In: Christakis, D.A., Hale, L. (eds) Handbook of Children and Screens. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69362-5_83Growing Up with Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Child Development (opens in a new tab)
20243 papers
- In Frontiers in NeuroergonomicsBringing together multimodal and multilevel approaches to study the emergence of social bonds between children and improve social AI (opens in a new tab)
- LRECConversational Grounding: Annotation and Analysis of Grounding Acts and Grounding Units (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Evaluating the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Establishing Conversational Grounding (opens in a new tab)
20233 papers
- Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., Rasenberg, M., Albert, S., Ameka, F.K., Birhane, A., Bolis, D., Cassell, J., Clift, R., Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Novaes, C.D., Enfield, N.J., Fusaroli, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Hutchins, E., Konvalinka, I., Milton, D., Rączaszek-Leonardi, J., Reddy, V., Rossano, F., Schlangen, D., Seibt, J., Stokoe, E., Suchman, L., Vesper, C., Wheatley, T. and Wiltschko, M. , Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences. In Cognitive Science 47 e13230.Beyond Single‐Mindedness: A Figure‐Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)How About Kind of Generating Hedges using End-to-End Neural Models? (opens in a new tab)
- SIGDIALWhen to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactions (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went269 listed
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
Confirmed on the program page.
Similar labsnearest by research summary
- USStanford
Dorottya Demszky
- Language & society
- CAToronto
Fanny Chevalier
- Visualization & visual analytics
- USUC Berkeley
Niloufar Salehi
- Human-AI collaboration & trust
- USCMU
Tongshuang Wu
- Human-AI collaboration & trust
- USUC Berkeley
Marti Hearst
- Interfaces & interaction techniques
- USUCSD
Leo Porter
- Learning & education technology
Your notes
Save this lab to keep notes.
Data
Checked against the lab homepage.
- Collected
- Verified
- Papers
- The lab homepage
- Members
- Lab homepage
- Alumni
- Lab homepage
Tiers are venue classifications, not lab rankings.
CMUcloses