Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction

Facilities
The Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction is located on the first floor of Baldwin Hall. The layout of the lab includes four subject rooms, a group interaction room, a control room and a waiting area.

Equipment
The lab is equipped with computers, videocameras, microphones, and monitoring equipment for conducting both networked and face-to-face interaction experiments. The facilities include state of the art equipment for gathering real time vocal, nonverbal, and physiological data from multiple interactants. This includes equipment for collecting high quality digital vocal and audio data, measuring blood flow, skin conductance, heart rate, respiration, salivary hormones, thermal imaging, and conducting spectral analysis of vocal data. LaSSI also maintains portable equipment for conducting field research outside of Baldwin Hall.

Organization
Dr. Dawn T. Robinson, LaSSI Director, supervises general activities of the lab. Tiffani Everett , LaSSI Lab Manager, oversees daily operations in the lab. In addition there are number of faculty, both at UGA and elsewere, who are affiliated with LaSSI.