University of Southern California
Graduate Student, Communication
Annenberg School for Communication
About
Adam S. Kahn is currently a second year doctoral student at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. There he studies the social and cognitive psychology of human-computer interaction and computer-mediated communication, the credibility of collective intelligence, the history and culture of computers and new media, and the history of the social scientific study of communication.
Adam is currently a research assistant for Professor Kwan Min Lee, studying human-robot interaction and serious games, and also works with Professor Dmitri Williams as a member of the Virtual Worlds Exploratorium project, a multi-university research effort that studies behavior in massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Adam serves as a teaching assistant for the introductory undergraduate course on communication and social science, and he mentors undergraduates in the introductory communication research methods course.
Adam earned a BS in Computer Science and a BA in History from Stanford University. He then earned an MA in Media Studies from Stanford's Department of Communication, where he studied with Clifford Nass and Fred Turner. As a research assistant in Dr. Nass's Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Lab, Adam worked on projects involving attitudes towards messages based on screen size in shared media spaces, the detection of personality in text conversations (in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh), and the cognitive effects of media multitasking. Under Dr. Turner's supervision, Adam did archival research exploring the influence of Vannevar Bush, FDR's chief science advisor, on Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse. Adam has presented his personality detection research at conferences in Scotland and Stanford, and the work on shared media spaces is in press with Human-Computer Interaction. After graduating from Stanford, Adam was the lab manager for Lera Boroditsky's Cognation Research Laboratory in Stanford's Department of Psychology.
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