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2019

Collaborative User Responses in Multiparty Interaction with a Couples Counselor Robot

Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Utami, D, Bickmore, T (2019)
Randomized Controlled Trial of a Relational Agent to Reduce Risky Alcohol Use

2019 Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting

Simon, S, Livingston, N, Sawdy, M, Yeksigian, K, Bickmore, T, Zhou, S, Saitz, R, Kressin, N, Rubin, A (2019)
Coerced Change-talk with Conversational Agents Promotes Confidence in Behavior Change

International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health)

Olafsson, S, O'Leary, T, Bickmore, T (2019)

2018

Breathe Deep: A Breath-Sensitive Interactive Meditation Coach

Pervasive Health Conference

Shamehki, A. and Bickmore, T. (2018)
Quester: A Speech-based Question-Answering Support System for Oral Presentations

Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

Asadi, R, Trinh, A, Fell, H, and Bickmore, T (2018)
Relational Agent to Provide Alcohol Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care: Design and Preliminary Results

Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting

Sawdy, M., Yeksigian, C., Zhou, S., Bickmore, T., Simon, S., Rubin, A. (2018)
Embodied conversational agents for patients with advanced illnesses intervention description and trial design

Society for General Internal Medicine Annual Conference

Waite, K, Henault, L, Armstrong, L, Jones, S, Zang, Z, Utami, D, Shamekhi, A, Olafsson, S, Bickmore, T, and Paasche-Orlow, M (2018)
Predicting User Engagement in Longitudinal Interventions with Virtual Agents

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Trinh, H, Shamekhi, A, Kimani, E, and Bickmore, T (2018)
Speaker Hand-Offs in Collaborative Human-Agent Oral Presentations

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Murali, p, Ring, L, Trinh, H, Asadi, R, and Bickmore, T (2018)
Managing Chronic Conditions with a Smartphone-based Conversational Virtual Agent

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Bickmore, T, Kimani, E, Trinh, H, Pusateri, A, Paasche-Orlow, M, and Magnani, J (2018)
Medical Shared Decision Making with a Virtual Agent

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Zhang, Z, and Bickmore, T (2018)
Looking the Part: The Effect of Attire and Setting on Perceptions of a Virtual Health Counselor

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Parmar, D, Olafsson, S, Utami, D and Bickmore, T (2018)
User Gaze Behavior while Discussing Substance Use with a Virtual Agent

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Zhou, S, Bickmore, T, Rubin, A, Yeksigian, C, Sawdy, M and Simon, S (2018)
A Conversational Decision Aid to Support Shared Decision Making on Prenatal Testing

Annual North American Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)

Zhang, Z, and Bickmore, T (2018)
Creating New Technologies for Companionable Agents to Support Isolated Older Adults

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) 8(3)

Sidner, C, Bickmore, T, Nooraie, B, Rich, C, Ring, L, Shayganfar, M, Vardoulakis, L (2018)
Using Relational Agents to Promote Exercise and Sun Protection: Assessment of Participants’ Experiences With Two Interventions

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(2)

Sillice, M, Morokoff, P, Ferszt, G, Bickmore, T, Bock, B, Lantini, R, Velicer, W (2018)
Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(9)

Bickmore, T, Trinh, H, Olafsson, S, O'Leary, T, Asadi, R, Rickles, N, Cruz, R (2018)
Safety First: Conversational Agents in Healthcare

chapter in Studies in Conversational UX Design, Moore, J, Szymanski, M, Arar, R, Ren, G, eds

Bickmore, T, Trinh, H, Asadi, R (2018) Springer
A Tablet Based Embodied Conversational Agent to Promote Smoking Cessation among Veterans: A Feasibility Study

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 8 (3), 225-230

Abdullah, A, Gaehde, S, Bickmore, T (2018)

2017

A Robotic Couples Counselor for Promoting Positive Communication

IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

Utami, D, Bickmore, T, Kruger, L (2017)
RoboCOP: A Robotic Coach for Oral Presentations

ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp)

Trinh, H, Asadi, R, Edge, D, Bickmore, T (2017)
Agents that Improve Human Social Interactions: Towards a Robotic Couples Counselor

International Conference on Virtual Social Interaction

Bickmore, T, Utami, D (2017)
Perceived Organizational Affiliation and Its Effects on Patient Trust: Role Modeling with Embodied Conversational Agents

Patient Education and Counseling 100(9):1730-37

Zhang, Z., Bickmore, T, and Paasche-Orlow, M (2017)
Augmenting Group Medical Visits with Conversational Agents for Stress Management Behavior Change

Persuasive Technology Conference

Shamekhi, A. and Bickmore, T. (2017)
Designing Health Conversations with Relational Agents

CHI'17 Workshop on Conversational UX Design

Trinh, H., Asadi, R., and Bickmore, T. (2017)
A Relational Agent for Alcohol Misuse Screening and Intervention in Primary Care

CHI'17 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (2017)

Zhou, S., Bickmore, T., Rubin, A., Yeksigian, K., Lippin-Foster, R., Heilman, M., Simon, S. (2017)
A Friendly Face in the Storm: Self-care Support System Requirements for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

CHI'17 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH)

Shamekhi, A., Trinh, H., Bickmore, T., Ellis, T., Houlihan, B., Latham, N. (2017)
Engaging Women with an Embodied Conversational Agent to Deliver Mindfulness and Lifestyle Recommendations: A Feasibility Randomized Control Trial

Patient Education and Counseling

Gardiner, P, McCue, K, Negash, L, Cheng, T, White, L, Yinusa-Nyahkoon, Jack, B, Bickmore, T (2017)
Development of a Spinal Cord Injury Virtual Coach to Improve Skin Care

American Spinal Injury Association Conference

Latham, N, Houlihan, B, Trinh, H, Shamekhi, A, Ellis, T, Everhart-Skeels, T, Zazula, J, DeAngeles, T, Sullivan, N, Jette, A, Bickmore, T (2017)
That's a Rap: Increasing Engagement with Rap Music Performance by Virtual Agents

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Olafsson, S., Kimani, E., Asadi, R., and Bickmore, T (2017)
Talk About Death: End of Life Planning with a Virtual Agent

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Utami, D., Bickmore, T., Nikolopoulou, A., and Paasche-Orlow, M. (2017)
Selecting and Refining the Characteristics of a Virtual Nurse for a Technology-Assisted Hospital-to-Home Care Transition Intervention in the Veterans Health Administration

American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA)

Richardson, L., Lipschitz, J., Hogan, T., Shimada, S., Smith, B., Simon, S., Rubin, A., Wakefield, B., Kaboli, P., Perez, J., Heidenreich, P., Zhou, S., Berwaldt, Z., Shi, L., Bickmore, T., and Houston, T. (2017)
Adapting a Persuasive Conversational Agent for the Chinese Culture

International Conference on Culture and Computing

Zhou, S, Zhang, Z, Bickmore, T (2017)
Testing the Comparative Effects of Physical Activity Advice by Humans vs. Computers in Underserved Populations: the COMPASS Trial Design, Methods, and Baseline Characteristics

Contemporary Clinical Trials, 61, 115-125

King, A, Campero, I, Sheats, J, Sweet, C, Garcia, D, Chazaro, A, Blanco, G, Fierros, F, Diaz, J, Done, M, Hauser, M, Ahn, D, Fernandez, J, Bickmore, T (2017)
Usability of family health history tools among underserved patients

American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

Wang, C, Bickmore, T, Paasche-Orlow, M, Cunningham, T, Cabral, H, Winter, M, Campion, M, Bowen, D (2017)
IntelliPrompter: Speech-based Dynamic Note Display Interface for Oral Presentations

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

Asadi, R, Trinh, H, Bickmore, T (2017)
Rationale and design of the Atrial Fibrillation health Literacy Information Technology Trial: (AF-LITT)

Contemporary Clinical Trials, 62, 153-158

Magnani, J, Guhl, E, Schlusser, C, Henault, L, Bickmore, T, Kimani, E, and Paasche-Orlow, M (2017)
Culturally-Aware Healthcare Systems

Advances in Culturually-Aware Intelligent Systems and in Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies, Springer, pp. 97--110

Yin, L, and Bickmore, T (2017)
The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology System: Pilot Assessment

JMIR Cardio

Magnani, J, Schlusser, C, Kimani, E, Rollman, B, Paasche-Orlow, M, and Bickmore, T (2017)
Design of the Integrative Group Medicine Visits Randomized Control Trial for Underserved Patients with Chronic Pain and Depression

Contemporary Clinical Trials, 54, 25-35

Gardiner, P, Lestoquoy, A, Gergen-Barnett, K, Penti, B, White, L, Saper, R, Fredman, L, Stillman, S, Negash, L, Bickmore, T, Adelstein, P, Brackup, I, Farrell-Riley, C, Shamekhi, A, Kabbara, K, Liebschutz, J (2017)
An Affect-Aware Dialogue System for Counseling

PhD Dissertation, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science

Ring, L (2017)

2016

Improving Access to Online Health Information with Conversational Agents: A Randomized Controlled Experiment

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Bickmore, T, Utami, D, Matsuyama, R, and Paasche-Orlow, M (2016)
Health literacy as a mediator of racial disparities in patient activation within an elderly patient cohort

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Eneanya, N, Winter, M, Cabral, H, Waite, K, Henault, L, Bickmore, T, Hanchate, A, Wolf, M, and Paasche-Orlow, M (2016)
Racial Disparities in Patient Activation: Evaluating the Mediating Role of Health Literacy with Path Analyses

Patient Education and Counseling

Gwynn, K, Winter, M, Cabral, H, Wolf, M, Hanchate, A, Henault, L, Waite, K, Bickmore, T, Paasche-Orlow, M (2016)
Disparities in Age-Associated Cognitive Decline Between African-American and Caucasian Populations: The Roles of Health Literacy and Education

Journal of the Amerian Geriatrics Society

Gupta, V, Winter, M, Cabral, H, Henault, L, Waite, K, Hanchate, A, Bickmore, T, Wolf, M, Paasche-Orlow, M (2016)
Conversational Agents Enable Automated Health Interventions for Individuals with Low Health Literacy

Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting, Symposium on Bridging the Digital Divide in Health and Healthcare: Can Behavioral Medicine Help? (abstract)

Bickmore, T.
Usability of a Relational Agent-based Breastfeeding Promotion Intervention

Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting, Symposium on Technology-Delivered Behavioral Interventions for Childbearing Women: Challenges, Triumphs, and Lessons Learned (abstract)

Bickmore, T., Zhang, Z., Edwards, R.
Behavioral Ontologies in Patient and Consumer-Facing Informatics

Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting, Symposium on Potential Confluence between Medical Informatics and Behavioral Science to Advance Precision Healthcare (abstract)

Bickmore, T.
An Affectively Aware Virtual Therapist for Depression Counseling

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) workshop on Computing and Mental Health

Ring, L., Bickmore, T., Pedrelli, P.
First Impressions in Human-Agent Virtual Encounters

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI)

Cafaro, A., Vilhjalmsson, H., Bickmore, T. (2016)
Real-time Presentation Tracking Using Semantic Keyword Spotting

Interspeech

Asadi, R., Fell, H., Bickmore, T., Trinh, H. (2016)
A Smartphone-based Virtual Agent for Atrial Fibrillation Education and Counseling

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Kimani, K., Bickmore, T., Trinh, H., Ring, L., Paasche-Orlow, M., Magnani, J. (2016)
Increasing Engagement with Virtual Agents Using Automatic Camera Motion

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Ring, L., Utami, D., Olafsson, S., Bickmore, T. (2016)
Virtual Agents in the Classroom: Experience Fielding a Co-Presenter Agent in University Courses

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Bickmore, T., Trinh, H., Hoppmann, M., Asadi, R. (2016)
Thinking Outside the Box: Co-Planning Scientific Presentations with Virtual Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Trinh, H., Bickmore, T., Edge, D., Ring, L. (2016)
Blissful Agents: Adjuncts to Group Medical Visits for Chronic Pain and Depression

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Shamekhi, A., Bickmore, T., Lestoquoy, A., Negash, L., Gardiner, P. (2016)
A Virtual Self-care Coach for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

The 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

Shamekhi, A., Trinh, H., Bickmore, T., DeAngelis, T., Ellis, T., Houlihan, B., Latham, N. (2016)
Real-time Tailoring of Depression Counseling by Conversational Agent

Connected Health Symposium, Boston

Ring, L., Pedrelli, P., Bickmore, T. (2016)
Utilization of an Embodied Conversational Agent in an Integrative Medicine Group Visit for Patients with Chronic Pain and Depression

Connected Health Symposium, Boston

Shamekhi, A., Bickmore, T., Lestoquoy, A., Gardiner, P. (2016)

2015

DynamicDuo: Co-presenting with Virtual Agents

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Trinh, H., Ring, L., Bickmore, T. (2015)
Acceptability and feasibility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories

Genetics in Medicine, 17:822-830

Wang, C, Bickmore, T, Bowen, D, Norkunas, T, Campion, M, Cabral, H, Winter, M, Paasche-Orlow, M (2015)
Reducing Preconception Risks among African American Women with Conversational Agent Technology

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 28(4):441-451

Jack, B, Bickmore, T, Hempstead, M, Yinusa-Nyahkoon, L, Sadikova, E, Mitchell, S, Gardiner, P, Adigun, F, Penti, B, Schulman, D, Damus, K (2015)
Context-Awareness in a Persistent Hospital Companion Agent

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Bickmore, T, Asadi, R, Ehyaei, A, Fell, H, Henault, L, Intille, S, Quintiliani, L, Shamekhi, A, Trinh, H, Waite, K, Shanahan, C, Paasche-Orlow, M (2015)
Adapting a Geriatrics Health Counseling Virtual Agent for the Chinese Culture

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Zhang, Z, Trinh, H, Chen, Q, Bickmore, T (2015)
A Feminist Virtual Agent for Breastfeeding Promotion

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Shi, L, Bickmore, T, Edwards, R (2015)
Breathe with Me: A Virtual Meditation Coach

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Shamekhi, A, Bickmore, T (2015)
Automated Explanation of Research Informed Consent by Virtual Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Bickmore, T, Utami, D, Zhou, S, Sidner, C, Quintiliani, L, Paasche-Orlow, M (2015)
Increasing Engagement with Conversational Agents Using Co-Constructed Storytelling

Eighth workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (Int8)

Battaglino, C., Bickmore, T. (2015)
A Feasibility Study to Introduce an Embodied Conversational Agent on a Tablet Computer into an Integrative Medicine Group Visit

American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting

Mccue, K, Shamekhi, A, Bickmore, T, Crooks, D, Barnett, K, Haas, N, Johnson, G, Gardiner, P (abstract)
A Feasibility Study to Test the Effects of an Embodied Conversational Agent on Addressing Food Security, Access, and Nutrition Knowledge among Urban Women

American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting

Mccue, K, Gardiner, P, Bickmore, T (abstract)
The Construction and Evaluation of a Design Framework for Narrative Games for Health

Phd Dissertation, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Yin, L. (2015)

2014

Afraid to Ask: Proactive Assistance with Healthcare Documents Using Eye Tracking

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Zhou, S., Gali, R., Paasche-Orlow, M., Bickmore, T. (2014)
Supporting Longitudinal Change in Many Health Behaviors

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Ren, J., Schulman, D., Jack, B., Bickmore, T. (2014)
Using Relational Agents to Increase Engagement in Computer-based Interventions: Preliminary Outcomes

International Congress of Behavioral Medicine (abstract)

Velicer, W., Redding, C., Blissmer, B., Babbin, S., Paiva, A., Bickmore, T., Johnson, J. (2014)
Social Support Agents for Older Adults: Longitudinal Affective Computing in the Home

Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces

Ring, L., Shi, L., Totzke, K., Bickmore, T. (2014)
Agent-User Concordance and Satisfaction with a Virtual Hospital Discharge Nurse

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Zhou, S., Bickmore, T., Jack, B. (2014)
The Right Agent for the Job? The effects of agent visual appearance on task domain

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Ring, L., Utami, D., Bickmore, T. (2014)
Birth Control, Drug Abuse, or Domestic Violence? What health risk topics are women willing to discuss with a virtual agent?

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Ren, J., Bickmore, T., Hempstead, M., Jack, B. (2014)
Maintaining Continuity in Longitudinal, Multi-Method Health Interventions Using Virtual Agents: The Case of Breastfeeding Promotion

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Zhang, Z., Bickmore, T., Mainello, K., Mueller, M., Foley, M., Jenkins, L., Edwards, R. (2014)
Representing Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Cafaro, A., Vilhjalmsson, H., Bickmore, T., Heylen, D., Pelachaud, C. (2014)
An Interactive Narrative System for Narrative-Based Games for Health

Seventh workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (int7)

Yin, L., Bickmore, T., Montfort, N. (2014)
Assessing Relationship between Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) & Preconception Care Risks in Young African-American Women (abstract)

Academy on Violence and Abuse Meeting on Controversies and Challenges in Addressing Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan

Penti, B., Hempstead, M., Mitchell, S., Gardiner, P., Damus, K., Sadikova, E., Yinusa-Nyahkoon, L., Culpepper, L., Bickmore, T., Jack, B. (2014)
Health Literacy and Usability of Clinical Trial Search Engines

Journal of Health Communication, 19 Suppl 2:190-204

Utami, D., Bickmore, T., Barry, B., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2014)
Automated Indexing of Internet Stories for Health Behavior Change: Weight Loss Attitude Pilot Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16 (12)

Manuvinakurike, R., Velicer, W., Bickmore, T. (2014)

2013

A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Automated Exercise Coach for Older Adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 61:1676–1683

Bickmore, T., Silliman, R., Nelson, K., Cheng, D., Winter, M., Henaulat, L., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2013)
Employing 'Virtual Advisors' in Preventive Care for Underserved Communities: Results from the COMPASS Study

Journal of Health Communication, 18(12): 1449-1464

King, A., Bickmore, T., Campero, M., Pruitt, L., Yin, L. (2013)
Use of an Interactive Computer Agent to Support Breastfeeding

Maternal and Child Health Journal, 17:1961-1968

Edwards, R., Bickmore, T., Jenkins, L., Foley, M. (2013)
Limited Health Literacy and Decline in Executive Function in Older Adults

Journal of Health Communication, 18(Suppl 1): 143–157

Sequeira, S., Eggermont, L., Silliman, R., Bickmore, T., Henault, L., Winter, M., Cheng, D., Nelson, K., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2013)
Addressing Loneliness and Isolation in Older Adults: Proactive Affective Agents Provide Better Support

International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)

Ring, L., Barry, B., Totzke, K., Bickmore, T. (2013)
Tinker - A Relational Agent Museum Guide

Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 27(2): 254-276

Bickmore, T., Schulman, D., Vardoulakis, L. (2013)
Reaching Women Through Health Information Technology: The Gabby Preconception Care System

American Journal of Health Promotion, Vol. 27, No. sp3 (January/February 2013) pp. eS11-eS20

Gardiner, P., Hempstead, M., Ring, L., Bickmore, T., Yinusa-Nyahkoon, L., Tran, H., Paasche-Orlow, M., Damus, K., Jack, B. (2013)
First impressions in user-agent encounters: the impact of an agent's nonverbal behavior on users' relational decisions

Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2013)

Cafaro, A., Vilhjalmsson, H., Bickmore, T., Heylen, D., Schulman, D. (2013)
Feasibility of a Virtual Exercise Coach to Promote Walking inCommunity-Dwelling Persons with Parkinson Disease

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92(6) 472-485

Ellis, T., Latham, N., DeAngelis, T., Thomas, C., Saint-Hilaire, M. and Bickmore, T. (2013)
Using Relational Agents in Tailored Interventions for Multiple Risk Factors: Preliminary 12 Month Results

Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)

Velicer, W., Reading, C., Blissmer, B., Meier, K., Babbin, S., Paiva, A., Bickmore, T., Johnson, J. (2013)
Increasing Engagement in Web-based Interventions using Relational Agents

Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)

Bickmore, T., Schulman, D., Yin, L. (2013)
Reaching Minority Populations with Relational Agents

Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)

Bickmore, T., Schulman, D., Yin, L., Ring, L. (2013)
Conversational Interfaces in HCI and Behavioral Medicine

Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)

Bickmore, T. (2013)
A Pilot Study of a Computer-Based Relational Agent to Screen for Substance-Use Problems in Primary Care

Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)

McNair, S., Checchi, K., Rubin, A., Marcello, T., Bickmore, T., and Simon, S. (2013)
Indexing Stories for Conversational Health Interventions

AAAI Spring Symposium on Data Driven Wellness: From Self-Tracking to Behavior Change

Manuvinakurike, R., Barry, B., and Bickmore, T. (2013)
Agent-mediated Patient-Clinician Communication

CHI 2013 Workshop on Patient–Clinician Communication: The Roadmap for Human–Computer Interaction

Bickmore, T. (2013)
Inadequate Health Literacy as a Vulnerability

CHI 2013 Workshop on Designing For- and With- Vulnerable People

Utami, D., and Bickmore, T. (2013)
Feasibility of using Virtual Counselors to Collect Family Health Histories from Underserved Populations

American Public Health Association annual meeting (abstract)

Wang, C., Bickmore, T., Bowen, D., Campion, M., Norkunas, T., Larson, C., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2013)
A Pilot Study of a Computer-Based Relational Agent to Screen for Substance-Use Problems in Primary Care

Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting (abstract)

Checchi, K., McNair, S., Rubin, A., Marcello, T., Bickmore, T., Simon, S. (2013)
Automated Promotion of Technology Acceptance by Clinicians Using Relational Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference(IVA)

Bickmore, T., Vardoulakis, L., Jack, B., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2013)
Demonstration of an Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults

14th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

Sidner, C., Bickmore, T., Rich, C., Barry, B., Ring, L., Behrooz, M., Shayganfar, M. (2013)
A Conversational Agent-based Clinical Trial Search Engine

7th annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR)

Utami, D., Barry, B., Bickmore, T., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2013)
Enabling Web Search for Low Health Literacy Individuals Using Conversational Agents

Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC)

Bickmore, T., Utami, D., Barry, B., Henault, L., Waite, K., Matsuyama, R., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2013)
Using virtual counselors to overcome literacy-related barriers in the collection of family health histories

Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC)

Wang, K., Bickmore, T., Bowen, D., Norkunas, T., Campion, M., Cabral, J. Winter, M., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2013)
An Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults

International Workshop on Techniques Toward Companion Technologies

Sidner, C., Bickmore, T., Rich, C., Barry, B., Ring, L., Behrooz, M., and Shayganfar, M. (2013)
Who Responds Best to a Virtual Exercise Coach? Demographics and Patterns of Use as Predictors of Outcome

Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH)

Zhang, Z., Bickmore, T., Silliman, R, Paasche-Orlow, M. (2013)
Automated Interventions for Multiple Health Behaviors Using Conversational Agents

Patient Education and Counseling, 92 (2):142-148

Bickmore, T., Schulman, D., Sidner, C. (2013)
Embodied Agents for Long-Term Discourse

Phd Dissertation, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Schulman, D. (2013)
Social Desirability Bias and Engagement in Systems Designed for Long-Term Health Tracking

Phd Dissertation, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Vardoulakis, L. (2013)
Automated Indexing of Stories for Conversational Health Intervention

MS Thesis, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Manuvinakurike, R. (2013)

2012

An Internet-Based Virtual Coach to Promote Physical Activity Adherence in Overweight Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(1)

Watson, A., Bickmore, T., Cange, A., Kulshreshtha, A., and Kvedar, J. (2012)
Feasibility of a Virtual Exercise Coach to Promote Walking in Community-Dwelling Persons with Parkinson's Disease

International Congress on Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders (abstract)

Ellis, T., Latham, N., DeAngelis, T., Hendron, K., Thomas, C., Saint-Hilaire, M., Bickmore, T. (2012)
Using Computer Agents to Improve Emotional Wellbeing of Hospital Patients

CHI workshop on Interaction Design and Emotional Wellbeing

Aziz, M., Bickmore, T., Vardoulakis, L., Shanahan, C., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2012)
Using an Interactive Visual Novel to Promote Patient Empowerment through Engagement

Foundations of Digital Games

Yin, L., Ring, L, Bickmore, T. (2012)
Efficacy of a Computer-based Intervention to Promote Walking in Older Adults

Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (abstract)

Paasche-Orlow, M., Silliman, R., Winter, M., Cheng, D., Henault, L., Bickmore, T. (2012)
Incorporating motivational interviewing into virtual contraceptive counseling

American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (abstract)

Imperato, C., Damus, K., Hempstead, M., Schulman, D., Kopy, M., Tran, H., Yinusa-Nyahkoon, L., Paasche-Orlow, M., Bickmore, T., Jack, B. (2012)
Pilot study of the use of a computer agent to provide information and support to breastfeeding mothers

American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (abstract)

Edwards, R., Bickmore, T., Jenkins, L., Foley, M. (2012)
Empirical Validation of an Accommodation Theory-based Model of User-Agent Relationship

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Bickmore, T., Schulman, D. (2012)
Hospital Buddy: A Persistent Emotional Support Companion Agent for Hospital Patients

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Bickmore, T., Bukhari, L., Vardoulakis, L., Paasche-Orlow, M., and Shanahan, C. (2012)
Designing Relational Agents as Long Term Social Companions for Older Adults

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Vardoulakis, L., Ring, L., Barry, B., Sidner, C., and Bickmore, T. (2012)
Longitudinal Affective Computing: Virtual Agents that Respond to User Mood

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Ring, L., Bickmore, T., and Schulman, D. (2012)
Fully Automated Generation of Question-Answer Pairs for Scripted Virtual Instruction

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Kuyten, P., Bickmore, T., Stoyanchev, S., Piwek, P., Prendinger, H. and Ishizuka, M. (2012)
First Impressions: users' judgments of Virtual Agents' Personality and Interpersonal Attitude in First Encounters

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

Cafaro, A., Vilhjálmsson, H., Bickmore, T., Heylen, D., Jóhannsdóttir, K., and Valgarðsson, G. (2012)
The Role of Information Technology in Health Literacy Research

Journal of Health Communication, v. 17, Supplement 3, pp 23-29

Bickmore, T., and Paasche-Orlow, M. (2012)
Changes in Verbal and Nonverbal Conversational Behavior in Long-Term Interaction

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

Schulman, D. and Bickmore, T. (2012)
Developing Virtual Patient Advocate Technology for Shared Decision Making

34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM, abstract)

Mitchell, S., Imperato, C., Schulman, D., Hempstead, M., Tran, H., Kopy, M., Bickmore, T., Paasche-Orlow, M., and Jack, B. (2012)
Health Literacy and Usability of Clinical Trial Search Engines

Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC, abstract)

Bickmore, T., Paasche-Orlow, M., Aziz, M., and Barry, B. (2012)

2011

A Reusable Framework for Health Counseling Dialogue Systems based on a Behavioral Medicine Ontology

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 44, 183-197

Bickmore, T., Schulman, D., and Sidner, C. (2011)
Adapting Research-tested Computerized Tailored Interventions for Broader Dissemination and Implementation

Translational Behavioral Medicine, 1(1), 93-102

Vinson, C., Bickmore, T., Farrell, D., Campbell, M., An, L., Saunders, E., Nowak, M., Fowler, B., and Shaikh, A. (2011)
Longitudinal Remote Follow-Up by Intelligent Conversational Agents for Post-Hospitalization Care

AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Health Communication

Pfeifer, L. and Bickmore, T. (2011)
An Intelligent Conversational Agent for Promoting Long-term Health Behavior Change using Motivational Interviewing

AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Health Communication

Schulman, D., Bickmore, T., and Sidner, C. (2011)
Is the Media Equation a Flash in the Pan? The Durability and Longevity of Social Responses to Computers

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Pfeifer, L. and Bickmore, T. (2011)
Employing 'Virtual Advisors' to Promote Physical Activity in Underserved Communities: Results from the COMPASS Study

Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting (abstract)

King, A., Bickmore, T. Campero, I. Pruitt, L., Yin, L. (2011)
Relational Agents for Promoting Engagement with Underserved Populations

Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting (abstract)

Bickmore, T., Schulman, D., Pfeifer, L., Yin, L. (2011)
An On-line Preconception Care Educational Program for Young African American Women

139th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (abstract)

Yinusa-Nyahkoon L, Cuoco M, Ring L, Bickmore T, Paasche-Orlow M, Damus K, Jack B (2011)
Posture, Relationship, and Discourse Structure

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Reykjavik, Iceland

Schulman, D., Bickmore, T., (2011)
Relational Agents Improve Engagement and Learning in Science Museum Visitors

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Reykjavik, Iceland

Bickmore, T., Pfeifer, L., Schulman, D. (2011)
Relational Agents as an Adjunct in Treating Schizophrenia: Case Studies

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 49(8):22-29

Puskar, K, Schlenk, E, Callan, J, Bickmore, T, Sereika, S (2011)
Health Literacy and Therapeutic Alliance with Relational Computer Agents

Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (abstract)

Bickmore, T., Paasche-Orlow, M. (2011)

2010

Empathic Touch by Relational Agents

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 1(1), 60-71

Bickmore, T, Fernando, R, Ring, L, Schulman, D (2010)
Maintaining Engagement in Long-term Interventions with Relational Agents

International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence special issue on Intelligent Virtual Agents 24(6): 648-666

Bickmore, T, Schulman, D, Yin, L (2010)
Relational Agents in Clinical Psychiatry

Harvard Review of Psychiatry, special issue on Psychiatry and Cyberspace 18(2): 119-130

Bickmore, T, Gruber, A (2010)
Response to a Relational Agent by Hospital Patients with Depressive Symptoms

Interacting with Computers special issue on Mental Health 22(4), 289-298

Bickmore, T, Mitchell, S, Jack, B, Paasche-Orlow, M, Pfeifer, L, ODonnell, J (2010)
Maintaining Reality: Relational Agents for Antipsychotic Medication Adherence

Interacting with Computers special issue on Mental Health 22(4) 276-288

Bickmore, T, Puskar, K, Schlenk, E, Pfeifer, L, Sereika, S (2010)
Increasing Access to Preconception Care Using Health Information Technology

Salud(i)Ciencia

Mitchell, S, Bickmore, T, Paasche-Orlow, M, Williams, C, Forsythe, S, Atrash, H, Johnson, K, Jack, B (2010)
Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of Relational Agents for Health Counseling

Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, Atlanta, GA

Yin, L., Bickmore, T., Byron, D., and Cortes, D. (2010)
Usability of Conversational Agents by Patients with Inadequate Health Literacy: Evidence from Two Clinical Trials

Journal of Health Communication 15, 197-210,

Bickmore, T, Pfeifer, L, Byron, D, Forsythe, S, Henault, L, Jack, B, Silliman, R, Paasche-Orlow, M (2010)
The Impact of Linguistic and Cultural Congruity on Persuasion by Conversational Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA

Yin, L, Bickmore, T, Cortes, D (2010)
Modeling Behavioral Manifestations of Coordination and Rapport over Multiple Conversations: Speaking Rate as a Relational Indicator for a Virtual Agent

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA

Schulman, D, Bickmore, T (2010)
Designing Embodied Conversational Agents to Conduct Longitudinal Health Interviews

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA

Pfeifer, L, Bickmore, T (2010)
Making It Personal: End-User Authoring of Health Narratives Delivered by Virtual Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA

Bickmore, T, Ring, L (2010)
Use of a Computer Agent to Explain Anesthesia Concepts to Patients

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

Ehrenfeld, J, Sandberg, W, Warren, L, Kwo, J, Bickmore, T (2010)

2009

2008

2007

2006

Towards Plan-based Health Behavior Change Counseling Systems.

AAAI Spring Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare, Stanford, CA.

Bickmore, T. and Sidner, C. L. (2006)
Modalities for Building Relationships with Handheld Computer Agents.

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montreal, Canada.

Bickmore, T. and Mauer, D. (2006)
The Comforting Presence of Relational Agents.

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montreal, Canada.

Bickmore, T. and Schulman, D. (2006)
Wearable Relational Agents for Health.

Ann Behav Med 31 (Suppl) : S185

Bickmore, T. (2006)

2005

2004

Towards Caring Machines.

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Vienna.

Bickmore, T. and Picard, R. (2004)

2001

Relational Agents: A Model and Implementation of Building User Trust.

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 396-403. March 31 - April 5. Seattle, Washington.

Bickmore, T. and Cassell, J. (2001)

2019

Collaborative User Responses in Multiparty Interaction with a Couples Counselor Robot

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Relational Agent to Reduce Risky Alcohol Use

Coerced Change-talk with Conversational Agents Promotes Confidence in Behavior Change

2018

Breathe Deep: A Breath-Sensitive Interactive Meditation Coach

Quester: A Speech-based Question-Answering Support System for Oral Presentations

Relational Agent to Provide Alcohol Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care: Design and Preliminary Results

Embodied conversational agents for patients with advanced illnesses intervention description and trial design

Predicting User Engagement in Longitudinal Interventions with Virtual Agents

Speaker Hand-Offs in Collaborative Human-Agent Oral Presentations

Managing Chronic Conditions with a Smartphone-based Conversational Virtual Agent

Medical Shared Decision Making with a Virtual Agent

Looking the Part: The Effect of Attire and Setting on Perceptions of a Virtual Health Counselor

User Gaze Behavior while Discussing Substance Use with a Virtual Agent

A Conversational Decision Aid to Support Shared Decision Making on Prenatal Testing

Creating New Technologies for Companionable Agents to Support Isolated Older Adults

Using Relational Agents to Promote Exercise and Sun Protection: Assessment of Participants’ Experiences With Two Interventions

Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant

Safety First: Conversational Agents in Healthcare

A Tablet Based Embodied Conversational Agent to Promote Smoking Cessation among Veterans: A Feasibility Study

2017

A Robotic Couples Counselor for Promoting Positive Communication

RoboCOP: A Robotic Coach for Oral Presentations

Agents that Improve Human Social Interactions: Towards a Robotic Couples Counselor

Perceived Organizational Affiliation and Its Effects on Patient Trust: Role Modeling with Embodied Conversational Agents

Augmenting Group Medical Visits with Conversational Agents for Stress Management Behavior Change

Designing Health Conversations with Relational Agents

A Relational Agent for Alcohol Misuse Screening and Intervention in Primary Care

A Friendly Face in the Storm: Self-care Support System Requirements for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

Engaging Women with an Embodied Conversational Agent to Deliver Mindfulness and Lifestyle Recommendations: A Feasibility Randomized Control Trial

Development of a Spinal Cord Injury Virtual Coach to Improve Skin Care

That's a Rap: Increasing Engagement with Rap Music Performance by Virtual Agents

Talk About Death: End of Life Planning with a Virtual Agent

Selecting and Refining the Characteristics of a Virtual Nurse for a Technology-Assisted Hospital-to-Home Care Transition Intervention in the Veterans Health Administration

Adapting a Persuasive Conversational Agent for the Chinese Culture

Testing the Comparative Effects of Physical Activity Advice by Humans vs. Computers in Underserved Populations: the COMPASS Trial Design, Methods, and Baseline Characteristics

Usability of family health history tools among underserved patients

IntelliPrompter: Speech-based Dynamic Note Display Interface for Oral Presentations

Rationale and design of the Atrial Fibrillation health Literacy Information Technology Trial: (AF-LITT)

Culturally-Aware Healthcare Systems

The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology System: Pilot Assessment

Design of the Integrative Group Medicine Visits Randomized Control Trial for Underserved Patients with Chronic Pain and Depression

An Affect-Aware Dialogue System for Counseling

2016

Improving Access to Online Health Information with Conversational Agents: A Randomized Controlled Experiment

Health literacy as a mediator of racial disparities in patient activation within an elderly patient cohort

Racial Disparities in Patient Activation: Evaluating the Mediating Role of Health Literacy with Path Analyses

Disparities in Age-Associated Cognitive Decline Between African-American and Caucasian Populations: The Roles of Health Literacy and Education

Conversational Agents Enable Automated Health Interventions for Individuals with Low Health Literacy

Usability of a Relational Agent-based Breastfeeding Promotion Intervention

Behavioral Ontologies in Patient and Consumer-Facing Informatics

An Affectively Aware Virtual Therapist for Depression Counseling

First Impressions in Human-Agent Virtual Encounters

Real-time Presentation Tracking Using Semantic Keyword Spotting

A Smartphone-based Virtual Agent for Atrial Fibrillation Education and Counseling

Increasing Engagement with Virtual Agents Using Automatic Camera Motion

Virtual Agents in the Classroom: Experience Fielding a Co-Presenter Agent in University Courses

Thinking Outside the Box: Co-Planning Scientific Presentations with Virtual Agents

Blissful Agents: Adjuncts to Group Medical Visits for Chronic Pain and Depression

A Virtual Self-care Coach for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

Real-time Tailoring of Depression Counseling by Conversational Agent

Utilization of an Embodied Conversational Agent in an Integrative Medicine Group Visit for Patients with Chronic Pain and Depression

2015

DynamicDuo: Co-presenting with Virtual Agents

Acceptability and feasibility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories

Reducing Preconception Risks among African American Women with Conversational Agent Technology

Context-Awareness in a Persistent Hospital Companion Agent

Adapting a Geriatrics Health Counseling Virtual Agent for the Chinese Culture

A Feminist Virtual Agent for Breastfeeding Promotion

Breathe with Me: A Virtual Meditation Coach

Automated Explanation of Research Informed Consent by Virtual Agents

Increasing Engagement with Conversational Agents Using Co-Constructed Storytelling

A Feasibility Study to Introduce an Embodied Conversational Agent on a Tablet Computer into an Integrative Medicine Group Visit

A Feasibility Study to Test the Effects of an Embodied Conversational Agent on Addressing Food Security, Access, and Nutrition Knowledge among Urban Women

The Construction and Evaluation of a Design Framework for Narrative Games for Health

2014

Afraid to Ask: Proactive Assistance with Healthcare Documents Using Eye Tracking

Supporting Longitudinal Change in Many Health Behaviors

Using Relational Agents to Increase Engagement in Computer-based Interventions: Preliminary Outcomes