Creating Communication and Media Research Labs

Chad Edwards, Ph.D. (University of Kansas) is a Professor of Communication at Western Michigan University and a Theodore von Kármán Fellow at RWTH Aachen University-Germany. He has published widely in journals such as Human-Machine Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, and Communication Education.Autumn Edwards, Ph.D. (Ohio University) is a Professor of Communication at Western Michigan University and a Theodore von Kármán Fellow at RWTH Aachen University-Germany. She has authored over 80 articles and chapters, and co-edited Communication is… Perspectives on Theory. Her other books include The Communication Age and the DeGruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture.Patric R. Spence, Ph.D. (Wayne State University) is a Professor at the University of Central Florida. He researches crisis communication and social robotics. He has authored over 100 research articles and five textbooks and is a former editor of Communication Studies.

• Chapter 1- Why Build a Communication and Media Research Lab?.- Chapter 2- Using the Design Thinking Process to Create a Communication/Media Research Lab.- Chapter 3- Life is Lab: Our Ten Tips.- Chapter 4- Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact: Creating Just and Joyful Communities Through Storytelling.- Chapter 5- The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen.- Chapter 6- The Family Communication and Relationships Lab: Leveraging Networks to Build a Multi-Site Research Lab.- Chapter 7- iTec - Chair for Individual and Technology: Understanding human cognition, emotion, and behavior in interactions with intelligent systems.- Chapter 8: Terror Management Lab: Interdisciplinary Explorations of the Fear of Death.- Chapter 9- Cognitive Communication Science Lab: Some Tips for Running a Small, Scrappy, and Successful Communication Neuroscience Lab.- Chapter 10- The University of Houston CougAR Lab: Building an Augmented/Virtual Reality Research Lab from Scratch.- Chapter 11- Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE): An Interdisciplinary Hub for Human-Computing Systems to Support Communication and Behavior Change.- Chapter 12- The Social Ties Lab: Building a Foundation for Collaborative, Community-Engaged Research.- Chapter 13- Stanford Social Media Lab: Pioneering Research on Media.-Chapter 14: ICCIT Labs: The CoVe, The Collaboratory, and the CoRE.-Chapter 15: The Women’s Health Research Team (WHRT): Collaborate. Innovate. Advocate.-Chapter 16:The Laboratory of Media Studies (LMS): The Lab of Social Narratives, Opinions, Behaviors, and Experiences.-Chapter 17: The Communication and Social Robotics Labs at Hope College: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants and Megazords.