Stebbins presents ASL research co-authored with Hamilton, Nover, Patterson, Fitch, and Alm

Jillian Stebbins, a cognitive science doctoral student, presented “Including Non-Manual Markers in Studies of American Sign Language Dialogue” at the Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue Workshop, held alongside the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in Budapest, Hungary. Co-authors included Amber Hamilton, a criminal justice undergraduate student; Emily Nover ’26 MA (data science); Stephanie Patterson ’26 (human-computer interaction); Allison Fitch, assistant professor of psychology; Cecilia Alm, professor of psychology and artificial intelligence program director, and peers from Gallaudet University.