ITA Grantee Biographies
Dominic Massaro, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Computer Engineering
Director of the Perceptual Science Laboratory
Chair of Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A.
University of California, Santa Cruz
massaro@ucsc.edu
Professor of Psychology and Computer Engineering
Director of the Perceptual Science Laboratory
Chair of Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A.
University of California, Santa Cruz
massaro@ucsc.edu
Dominic W. Massaro received a BA in Psychology (1965) from UCLA and an MA (1966) and a Ph.D. (1968) in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After a two-year postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin until 1979 before moving to Santa Cruz. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellow, a James McKeen Cattell Fellow, and an NIMH Fellow. He is a past president of the Society for Computers in Psychology, and is currently the book review editor of the American Journal of Psychology and founding co-editor of the journal Interpreting. He has published numerous academic journal articles, written and edited several books (including Perceiving talking faces: from speech perception to a behavioral principle, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press; The Science of the Mind: 2001 and Beyond, New York: Oxford University Press; and Experimental Psychology: An information processing approach, Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.). His research uses a formal experimental and theoretical approach to the study of speech perception, reading, psycholinguistics, memory, cognition, learning, and decision-making. One focus of his current research is on the development and theoretical and applied use of a completely synthetic and animated head for speech synthesis, language tutoring, and edutainment.
Selected publications:
Massaro, D.W. & Bosseler, A. (2006). Read my Lips: The Importance of the Face in a Computer-Animated Tutor for Autistic Children Learning Language. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 10(5), 495-510.
Massaro, D.W. (2006). Embodied Agents in Language Learning for Children with Language Challenges. In K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus, W. Zagler, A. Karshmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2006 (pp.809-816).
Williams, J.H.G., Massaro, D.W., Peel, N.J., Bosseler, A., Suddendorf, T. (2004). Visual-Auditory integration during speech imitation in autism. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 25, 559-575.
Selected publications:
Massaro, D.W. & Bosseler, A. (2006). Read my Lips: The Importance of the Face in a Computer-Animated Tutor for Autistic Children Learning Language. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 10(5), 495-510.
Massaro, D.W. (2006). Embodied Agents in Language Learning for Children with Language Challenges. In K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus, W. Zagler, A. Karshmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2006 (pp.809-816).
Williams, J.H.G., Massaro, D.W., Peel, N.J., Bosseler, A., Suddendorf, T. (2004). Visual-Auditory integration during speech imitation in autism. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 25, 559-575.
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