John O. Greene and Carrie L. Johnston Communication Research Laboratory
Welcome to the John O. Greene and Carrie L. Johnston Communication Research Laboratory! Our newly renovated lab has the goal of enhancing communication research at the Brian Lamb School of Communication by providing space and equipment that is ready and flexible enough to meet a wide variety of communication research needs. The lab functions alongside the SONA-based Research Participation System that the Lamb School uses to allow undergraduate participation in communication research. Research in the lab is conducted by faculty and graduate students in the Lamb School.
Back row: Nathanael Johnson, Professor Torsten Reimer, David Williams,
Juan Pablo Loaiza Ramírez. Front row: Professor John Greene, Carrie Johnston
About the Participation System
Information for Instructors
Information for Researchers
Information for Students
Location and Space
The John O. Greene and Carrie L. Johnston Communication Research Laboratory is located in Beering Hall of Liberal Arts in rooms 2292 and 2297, comprised of two main research areas for participants – a flex-space computer lab and an auxiliary discussion and focus group room – and an observation room and storage room for researchers. The computer lab has 8 participant computers within partitioned workspaces for privacy and focus. Additionally, both participant rooms are equipped with a TV with a built-in webcam and microphone for computer-mediated communication environments and with a high-resolution camera system to create audio-visual recordings of the whole space, managed from the observation room and stored on a secure server in the storage room.
Main laboratory space, equipped with cameras, computers, and a webcam-enabled TV
Six of these Axis Communications cameras, combined with microphones, are placed throughout the main and auxiliary labs to allow complete capture of both rooms
Auxiliary lab space with focus group rooms, a TV, and cameras
Renovation
We have come a long way since 1985, when Professor John Greene began collecting data in his own office in the absence of a dedicated lab space. When Beering Hall was built in 1993, this lab space was created to serve the Brian Lamb School of Communication research needs. From 2021 to 2023, the lab space underwent extensive renovations to update the space, bring in new computers, and install the camera and TV systems to open up an ever-increasing number of research possibilities. On September 20, 2023, the lab space was reopened and named the John O. Greene and Carrie L. Johnston Communication Research Laboratory in honor of Professor John Greene and his wife, Carrie Johnston. The lab was reopened in a ceremonial ribbon cutting, opening up our doors once again to utilize the space to take giant leaps forward in communication research at Purdue.
We are grateful to all of the people who put a lot of time and energy into the renovation of the lab, in particular Donna Wireman, Mary Roe, Caroline LaPlant, JoLene Lark, Jim Mellish, Gary Wooten, and Thor Bergman.
Professor John Greene and Carrie Johnston cut the ribbon for the reopening of the lab on September 20th, 2023
Contact Us
Professor Torsten Reimer (Faculty member, Director of the lab) – treimer@purdue.edu
Nathanael Johnson (PhD candidate, Lab manager) – john2370@purdue.edu
Juan Pablo Loaiza Ramírez (PhD student, Lab manager) – jloaizar@purdue.edu