Dr. Alastair J. Gill

I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, working on the Qlectives EU-FP7 project. Previously I was Research Scientist at the Center for Technology and Social Behavior and The Laboratory for Collaborative Technology, Northwestern University working with Professors Justine Cassell and Darren Gergle, and before that Faber Post-Doctoral Research Fellow working with Robert M. French at the National Centre for Scientific Research - Laboratory for the Experimental Study of Learning and Development (LEAD-CNRS), University of Burgundy (Université de Bourgogne), France.

My research examines social and psychological aspects of communication, especially with reference to computer-mediated technologies which minimise the availability of extralinguistic cues. In these environments, people are forced to rely on purely linguistic means, both for communicating themselves effectively, and also for perceiving the other person.

In particular, a major area of my research has been investigating the projection and perception of personality in computer-mediated communication, using data-intensive methods.

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Recent and Forthcoming Publications and Presentations

• Whalen, J., Pexman, P., Gill, A.J., and Nowson, S. [to appear]. Nonliteral Language Use in Personal Blogs. Manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Behaviour and Information Technology.
• Vasalou, A., Gill, A.J., Mazanderani, F., Papoutsi, C. and Joinson, A. [to appear]. Privacy Dictionary: A New Resource for the Automated Content Analysis of Privacy. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
• Gill, A.J., Vasalou, M., Papoutsi, C., and Joinson, A. [2011]. Privacy dictionary: A linguistic taxonomy of privacy for content analysis. Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), ACM, New York, NY, 3227– 3236. Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2011. [26% acceptance rate - 400/1540]
• Privacy Dictionary: A Resource for the Automated Content Analysis of Privacy. (2011). Available from: privacydictionary.info.
• Iacobelli, I., Gill, A.J., Nowson, S., and Oberlander, J. [2011]. Large scale personality classification of bloggers. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine Learning for Affective Computing (MLAC2011). Memphis, TN, October 2011.
• Brockmann, C., Gill, A.J., and Oberlander, J. [2010]. Interactions between Alignment and Personality in Generated Dialogue. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL, August, 2010.
• Scissors, L., Gill, A.J., Geraghty, K., and Gergle, D. [2010]. Trust through Text: Examining Linguistic Similarity and Trust in Text Chat. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV, January 2010.
• Mehl, M., and Gill, A.J. [2010]. Computerized Content Analysis. In Gosling, S., and Johnson, J. (eds.) Advanced Methods for Behavioral Research on the Internet. Washington DC: American Psychological Association Publications.
• Gill, A.J., French, R.M., Gergle, D., and Oberlander, J. [2008]. The Language of Emotion in Short Blog Texts. San Diego, CA, November 2008. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008). San Diego, CA, November 2008. [16% acceptance rate]
• Scissors, L., Gill, A.J., and Gergle, D. [2008]. Linguistic Mimicry and Trust in Text-Based Communication. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008). [16% acceptance rate] [Best of CSCW2008: Honorable Mention (Top 5% of Papers)]
• Gill, A.J., Gergle, D., French R.M., and Oberlander, J. [2008]. Emotion rating from short blog texts. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), pp. 1121-1124. Florence, Italy, March 2008. [18% acceptance rate] (PDF)

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Contact

My University of Surrey homepage can be found here.

If you would like to find out more about my work, please contact me at:

• alastair[at]northwestern.edu

Or if you prefer more traditional methods, my postal address is:

• Dr. Alastair J. Gill, Ph.D.
  Department of Sociology
  University of Surrey
  Guildford, GU2 7EX
  UK

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