2024
Engaging and Entertaining Adolescents in Health Education Using LLM-Generated Fantasy Narrative Games and Virtual Agents
CHI Late Breaking
2024
view'Something I Can Lean On': A Qualitative Evaluation of a Virtual Palliative Care Counselor for Patients with Life-Limiting Illnesses
CHI Late Breaking
2024
viewUsability and Acceptability of a Conversational Agent Health Education App (Nthabi) for Young Women in Lesotho: Quantitative Study
JMIR Human Factors
2024
viewEmpathic Grounding - Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2024
Keeping Users Engaged During Repeated Interviews by a Virtual Agent: Using Large Language Models to Reliably Diversify Questions
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2024
Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) BEST PAPER AWARD
2024
Exploring the Potential of Virtual Agents in Atrial Fibrillation Management: Insights from a Randomized Trial
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2024
Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2024
Feeling-the-Beat: Enhancing Empathy and Engagement during Public Speaking through Heart Rate Sharing
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)
2024
Virtual Coach-Guided Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: Pilot Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial
JMIR Formative Research
2024
viewChange in Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge among Young Women Using the Conversational Agent 'Nthabi' in Lesotho: A Clinical Trial
BMC Global and Public Health
2024
viewInaccurate Empathy is Worse than No Empathy in Affective Human-Robot Interaction
The 3rd Workshop on Affective Human-Robot Interaction at ACII 2024 (AHRI)
2024
2023
Improving multiparty interactions with a robot using large language models
CHI Late Breaking
2023
view'Everyone is Covered': Exploring the Role of Online Interactions in Facilitating Connection and Social Support in Black Churches
CHI 2023
2023
viewSharing Speaker Heart Rate with the Audience Elicits Empathy and Increases Persuasion
Persuasive Technology 2023
2023
viewInfluencing Health-Related Decision Making and Therapeutic Alliance with Robot Mobility and Deixis
IEEE RO-MAN
2023
MyLynch: A Patient-Facing Clinical Decision Support Tool for Genetically-Guided Personalized Medicine in Lynch Syndrome
Cancers Journal
2023
viewAn Online Therapeutic Intervention for Veterans Patients Suffering with Chronic Pain
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Workshop on XR Technologies for Health and Wellbeing (XR Health)
2023
An Online Acceptance and Mindfulness Intervention for Chronic Pain in Veterans: Development and Protocol for a Pilot Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial
JMIR Research Protocols
2023
viewDevelopment and evaluation of a relational agent to assist with screening and intervention for unhealthy drinking in primary care
Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
2023
Changing Parent Attitudes by Including Adolescents in Multiparty Counseling by Virtual Agent
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2023
Accomodating User Expressivity while Maintaining Safety for a Virtual Alcohol Misuse Counselor
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2023
Conversational Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Virtual Agents
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2023
Towards Automated Pain Assessment using Embodied Conversational Agents
The Third International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP)
2023
downloadAdaptation of the Gabby conversational agent system to improve the sexual and reproductive health of young women in Lesotho
Frontiers in Digital Health
2023
viewEnhancing Affect Communication during Public Speaking through Sensing and Social Biofeedback
PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
2023
downloadCo-Design and Evaluation of a Smartphone-based Mental Health Promotion and Anti-stigma Embodied Conversational Agent for Church-affiliated Black Adults
PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
2023
download2022
Sharing the Spotlight: Co-presenting with a Humanoid Robot
Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
2022
viewA Virtual Counselor for Breast Cancer Genetic Counseling: Adaptive Pedagogy Leads to Greater Knowledge Gain
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2022)
2022
viewCommunity Dynamics in Technospiritual Interventions: Lessons Learned from a Church-based mHealth Pilot
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2022)
2022
viewTechno-spiritual Engagement: Mechanisms for Improving Uptake of mHealth Apps Designed for Church Members
IUI Workshop on Healthy Interfaces (HEALTHI)
2022
Designing empathic virtual agents: manipulating animation, voice, rendering, and empathy to create persuasive agents
J. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 36(1):1-24
2022
Conversational Agents on Smartphones and the Web
Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction, Jacobson, Kowatsch, March eds, Elsevier
2022
viewComputer-Animated Relational Agents in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Education
Obstetrics and Gynecology
2022
viewIntelligent Agents and Dialog Systems
Intelligent Systems in Medicine and Health: The Role of AI, Cohen, Patel, Shortliffe, eds. Springer
2022
viewTraining Lay Counselors with Virtual Agents to Promote Vaccination
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2022
viewMotivating Health Behavior Change with a Storytelling Virtual Agent
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2022
viewDesign and rationale of the mobile health intervention for rural atrial fibrillation
American Heart Journal
2022
viewReal-time Public Speaking Anxiety Prediction Model for Oral Presentations
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
2022
viewChurch after Sunday: supporting everyday well-being through techno-spiritual health interventions
Interactions
2022
viewDesign, rationale, and baseline characteristics of a randomized controlled trial evaluating a mobile relational agent to enhance atrial fibrillation self-care
Contemporary Clinical Trials
2022
view2021
Diversity Informatics: Reducing Racial and Gender Bias with Virtual Agents
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2021
viewA Friendly Face in the Crowd: Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety with an Emotional Support Agent in the Audience
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2021
Perceptions of Quantitative and Affective Meaning from Humanoid Robot Hand Gestures
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)
2021
Mitigating Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: Exploratory Mixed Methods Experiment
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
2021
viewHealth-Related Applications of Socially-Interactive Agents
The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 1: Methods, Behavior, Cognition
2021
viewComputerized Relational Agent to Deliver Alcohol Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care: a Randomized Clinical Trial
Journal of General Internal Medicine
2021
viewBlack Men's Experiences With Health care: Individuals' Accounts of Challenges, Suggestions for Change, and the Potential Utility of Virtual Agent Technology to Assist Black Men With Health Management
Qualitative Health Research
2021
viewExamining the Intersections of Race, Religion & Community Technologies: A Photovoice Study
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2021)
2021
download‘More like a person than reading text in a machine’: Predicting Choice of Embodied Agents over Conventional GUIs on Smartphones
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2021)
2021
downloadSharing the Load Online: Virtual Presentations with Virtual Co-Presenter Agents
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2021)
2021
downloadAutomating Cancer Genetic Counseling with an Adaptive Pedagogical Agent
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2021)
2021
downloadUtility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories among vulnerable patient populations: A randomized controlled trial
Patient Education and Counseling
2021
viewUsing Health Information Technology to Engage African American Women on Nutrition and Supplement Use During the Preconception Period
frontiers in Endocrinology
2021
viewAutomating Cancer Genetic Counseling with Embodied Conversational Agents: A Computational Framework for Genetic Risk Communication
PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
2021
downloadAutomated Interventions for Public Speaking Anxiety
PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
2021
downloadA Hybrid Structured-Neural Dialog System for Automated Counseling
PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
2021
2020
Effects of Counseling by Peer Human Advisors vs Computers to Increase Walking in Underserved Populations: The COMPASS Randomized Clinical Trial
JAMA Internal Medicine
2020
viewImproving the health of young African American women in the preconception period using health information technology: a randomised controlled trial
The Lancet: Digital Health
2020
viewVirtual Agents as Supporting Media for Scientific Presentations
Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces
2020
Substance Use Screening using Virtual Agents: Towards Automated Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2020
downloadCommunity-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2020
downloadMotivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2020
downloadMultimodal Assessment of Oral Presentations using HMMs
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
2020
downloadStudy Protocol for the Implementation of the Gabby Preconception Care System - An Evidence-Based, Health Information Technology Intervention for Black and African American Women
BMC Health Services Research
2020
The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology Trial: Pilot Trial of a Mobile Health Application for Atrial Fibrillation
JMIR Cardio
2020
viewUsing Embodied Conversational Agents to Support Mode of Birth Decisions, Perspectives of women and providers
Journal of Perinatal Education
2020
Investigating Opportunities for Crowdsourcing in Church-Based Health Interventions: A Participatory Design Study
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2020) - Honourable Mention
2020
downloadJust Breathe: Towards Real-Time Intervention for Public Speaking Anxiety
IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE)
2020
A Virtual Genetic Counselor for Breast Cancer Genetic Risk Communication
Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2020)
2020
Physical Activity Advising by Humans vs. Computers in Underserved Populations: The COMPASS2 Trial Major Results
Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2020)
2020
Towards a Computational Framework for Automating Substance Use Counseling with Virtual Agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)
2020
downloadNavigating the Combinatorics of Virtual Agent Design Space to Maximize Persuasion
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS20)
2020
downloadArgumentation is More Important than Appearance for Designing Culturally Tailored Virtual Agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)
2020
downloadCancer Genetic Counseling by Humanoid Robot: Modeling Multimodal Communication of Health Risk
Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) BEST PAPER AWARD
2020
download viewDesigning and Evaluating a Digital Family Health History Tool for Spanish Speakers
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2020
Acceptability of an Interactive Computer-Animated Agent to Promote Patient-Provider Communication about Breast Density: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study
Journal of General Internal Medicine
2020
Assessing the potential of a Virtual Patient Advocate to provide preconception care and health advice to women living in Australia
Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
2020
Making It Personal: Addressing Individual Audience Members in Oral Presentations Using Augmented Reality
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
2020
downloadPromotion of Preconception Care among Adolescents and Young Adults by Conversational Agent
Journal of Adolescent Health
2019
viewPalliative care with spiritual support by Conversational Agents
CHI Workshop on Conversational Agents for Health and Wellbeing
2020
Conversational Agents for Automated Group Meeting Facilitation: A Computational Framework for Facilitating Small Group Decision-Making Meetings
PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
2020
downloadMedical Shared Decision Making with Embodied Conversational Agents
PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
2020
download2019
Collaborative User Responses in Multiparty Interaction with a Couples Counselor Robot
Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
2019
downloadRandomized Controlled Trial of a Relational Agent to Reduce Risky Alcohol Use
2019 Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting
2019
Coerced Change-talk with Conversational Agents Promotes Confidence in Behavior Change
International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health)
2019
downloadYou’ll be Great: Virtual Agent-based Cognitive Restructuring to Reduce Public Speaking Anxiety
8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019)
2019
downloadStagecraft for Scientists: Exploring Novel Interaction Formats for Virtual Co-Presenter Agents
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2019
downloadHealth Counseling by Robots: Modalities for Breastfeeding Promotion
28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2019)
2019
downloadA Tablet Based Embodied Conversational Agent to Promote Smoking Cessation among Veterans: A Feasibility Study
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 8(3-4)
2019
A Multimodal Robot-Driven Meeting Facilitation System for Group Decision-Making Sessions
21st ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019)
2019
downloadDesigning and Evaluating a Digital Family Health History Tool for Spanish Speakers
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2019
Computational Framework for Facilitating Intimate Dyadic Communication
PhD Dissertation, Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences
2019
2018
Breathe Deep: A Breath-Sensitive Interactive Meditation Coach
Pervasive Health Conference
2018
downloadQuester: A Speech-based Question-Answering Support System for Oral Presentations
Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
2018
downloadRelational Agent to Provide Alcohol Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care: Design and Preliminary Results
Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting
2018
Embodied conversational agents for patients with advanced illnesses intervention description and trial design
Society for General Internal Medicine Annual Conference
2018
Predicting User Engagement in Longitudinal Interventions with Virtual Agents
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2018
downloadSpeaker Hand-Offs in Collaborative Human-Agent Oral Presentations
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2018
downloadManaging Chronic Conditions with a Smartphone-based Conversational Virtual Agent
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2018
downloadMedical Shared Decision Making with a Virtual Agent
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2018
downloadUser Gaze Behavior while Discussing Substance Use with a Virtual Agent
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2018
downloadLooking the Part: The Effect of Attire and Setting on Perceptions of a Virtual Health Counselor
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2018
downloadA Conversational Decision Aid to Support Shared Decision Making on Prenatal Testing
Annual North American Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
2018
Creating New Technologies for Companionable Agents to Support Isolated Older Adults
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) 8(3)
2018
downloadUsing Relational Agents to Promote Exercise and Sun Protection: Assessment of Participants' Experiences With Two Interventions
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(2)
2018
viewA Tablet-Based Embodied Conversational Agent to Promote Smoking Cessation Among Veterans: a Feasibility Study
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 8 (3), 225-230
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)
2018
viewA Tablet Based Embodied Conversational Agent to Promote Smoking Cessation among Veterans: A Feasibility Study
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 8 (3), 225-230
2018
Safety First: Conversational Agents in Healthcare
Chapter in Studies in Conversational UX Design, Moore, J, Szymanski, M, Arar, R, Ren, G, eds, Springer
2018
2017
A Robotic Couples Counselor for Promoting Positive Communication
IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
2017
downloadRoboCOP: A Robotic Coach for Oral Presentations
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp)
2017
downloadAgents that Improve Human Social Interactions: Towards a Robotic Couples Counselor
International Conference on Virtual Social Interaction
2017
Perceived Organizational Affiliation and Its Effects on Patient Trust: Role Modeling with Embodied Conversational Agents
Patient Education and Counseling 100(9):1730-37
2017
Augmenting Group Medical Visits with Conversational Agents for Stress Management Behavior Change
Persuasive Technology Conference
2017
downloadDesigning Health Conversations with Relational Agents
CHI'17 Workshop on Conversational UX Design
2017
A Relational Agent for Alcohol Misuse Screening and Intervention in Primary Care
CHI'17 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (2017)
2017
downloadA 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)
2017
downloadEngaging Women with an Embodied Conversational Agent to Deliver Mindfulness and Lifestyle Recommendations: A Feasibility Randomized Control Trial
Patient Education and Counseling
2017
Development of a Spinal Cord Injury Virtual Coach to Improve Skin Care
American Spinal Injury Association Conference
2017
That's a Rap: Increasing Engagement with Rap Music Performance by Virtual Agents
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2017
downloadTalk About Death: End of Life Planning with a Virtual Agent
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2017
downloadSelecting 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)
2017
Adapting a Persuasive Conversational Agent for the Chinese Culture
International Conference on Culture and Computing
2017
downloadTesting 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
2017
Usability of family health history tools among underserved patients
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting
2017
IntelliPrompter: Speech-based Dynamic Note Display Interface for Oral Presentations
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
2017
Rationale and design of the Atrial Fibrillation health Literacy Information Technology Trial: (AF-LITT)
Contemporary Clinical Trials, 62, 153-158
2017
Culturally-Aware Healthcare Systems
Advances in Culturually-Aware Intelligent Systems and in Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies, Springer, pp. 97--110
2017
The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology System: Pilot Assessment
JMIR Cardio
2017
viewDesign of the Integrative Group Medicine Visits Randomized Control Trial for Underserved Patients with Chronic Pain and Depression
Contemporary Clinical Trials, 54, 25-35
2017
An Affect-Aware Dialogue System for Counseling
PhD Dissertation, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science
2017
download2016
Improving Access to Online Health Information with Conversational Agents: A Randomized Controlled Experiment
Journal of Medical Internet Research
2016
viewHealth literacy as a mediator of racial disparities in patient activation within an elderly patient cohort
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 27(3):1427-1440
2016
Racial Disparities in Patient Activation: Evaluating the Mediating Role of Health Literacy with Path Analyses
Patient Education and Counseling 99(6):1033-1037
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
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)
2016
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)
2016
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)
2016
An Affectively Aware Virtual Therapist for Depression Counseling
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) workshop on Computing and Mental Health
2016
downloadFirst Impressions in Human-Agent Virtual Encounters
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI)
2016
A Smartphone-based Virtual Agent for Atrial Fibrillation Education and Counseling
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2016
downloadIncreasing Engagement with Virtual Agents Using Automatic Camera Motion
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2016
downloadVirtual Agents in the Classroom: Experience Fielding a Co-Presenter Agent in University Courses
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2016
downloadThinking Outside the Box: Co-Planning Scientific Presentations with Virtual Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2016
downloadBlissful Agents: Adjuncts to Group Medical Visits for Chronic Pain and Depression
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
2016
downloadA Virtual Self-care Coach for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
The 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)
2016
Real-time Tailoring of Depression Counseling by Conversational Agent
Connected Health Symposium, Boston
2016
Utilization of an Embodied Conversational Agent in an Integrative Medicine Group Visit for Patients with Chronic Pain and Depression
Connected Health Symposium, Boston
2016
2015
DynamicDuo: Co-presenting with Virtual Agents
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
2015
downloadAcceptability and feasibility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories
Genetics in Medicine, 17:822-830
2015
Reducing Preconception Risks among African American Women with Conversational Agent Technology
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 28(4):441-451
2015
Context-Awareness in a Persistent Hospital Companion Agent
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2015
downloadAdapting a Geriatrics Health Counseling Virtual Agent for the Chinese Culture
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2015
downloadA Feminist Virtual Agent for Breastfeeding Promotion
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2015
downloadBreathe with Me: A Virtual Meditation Coach
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2015
downloadAutomated Explanation of Research Informed Consent by Virtual Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2015
downloadIncreasing Engagement with Conversational Agents Using Co-Constructed Storytelling
Eighth workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (Int8)
2015
downloadA 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
2015
viewA 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
2015
viewThe Construction and Evaluation of a Design Framework for Narrative Games for Health
Phd Dissertation, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
2015
download2014
Afraid to Ask: Proactive Assistance with Healthcare Documents Using Eye Tracking
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
2014
downloadSupporting Longitudinal Change in Many Health Behaviors
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
2014
downloadUsing Relational Agents to Increase Engagement in Computer-based Interventions: Preliminary Outcomes
International Congress of Behavioral Medicine (abstract)
2014
Social Support Agents for Older Adults: Longitudinal Affective Computing in the Home
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
2014
Agent-User Concordance and Satisfaction with a Virtual Hospital Discharge Nurse
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2014
downloadThe Right Agent for the Job? The effects of agent visual appearance on task domain
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2014
downloadBirth Control, Drug Abuse, or Domestic Violence? What health risk topics are women willing to discuss with a virtual agent?
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2014
downloadMaintaining Continuity in Longitudinal, Multi-Method Health Interventions Using Virtual Agents: The Case of Breastfeeding Promotion
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2014
downloadRepresenting Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2014
An Interactive Narrative System for Narrative-Based Games for Health
Seventh workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (int7)
2014
downloadAssessing 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
2014
Health Literacy and Usability of Clinical Trial Search Engines
Journal of Health Communication, 19 Suppl 2:190-204
2014
Automated Indexing of Internet Stories for Health Behavior Change: Weight Loss Attitude Pilot Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16 (12)
2014
view2013
A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Automated Exercise Coach for Older Adults
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 61:1676-1683
2013
Employing 'Virtual Advisors' in Preventive Care for Underserved Communities: Results from the COMPASS Study
Journal of Health Communication, 18(12): 1449-1464
2013
Use of an Interactive Computer Agent to Support Breastfeeding
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 17:1961-1968
2013
Limited Health Literacy and Decline in Executive Function in Older Adults
Journal of Health Communication, 18(Suppl 1): 143-157
2013
Addressing Loneliness and Isolation in Older Adults: Proactive Affective Agents Provide Better Support
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)
2013
downloadTinker - A Relational Agent Museum Guide
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 27(2): 254-276
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
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)
2013
Feasibility of a Virtual Exercise Coach to Promote Walking in Community-Dwelling Persons with Parkinson Disease
American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92(6) 472-485
2013
Using Relational Agents in Tailored Interventions for Multiple Risk Factors: Preliminary 12 Month Results
Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)
2013
Increasing Engagement in Web-based Interventions using Relational Agents
Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)
2013
Reaching Minority Populations with Relational Agents
Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)
2013
Conversational Interfaces in HCI and Behavioral Medicine
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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)
2013
Indexing Stories for Conversational Health Interventions
AAAI Spring Symposium on Data Driven Wellness: From Self-Tracking to Behavior Change
2013
downloadAgent-mediated Patient-Clinician Communication
CHI 2013 Workshop on Patient-Clinician Communication: The Roadmap for Human-Computer Interaction
2013
Inadequate Health Literacy as a Vulnerability
CHI 2013 Workshop on Designing For- and With- Vulnerable People
2013
Feasibility of using Virtual Counselors to Collect Family Health Histories from Underserved Populations
American Public Health Association annual meeting (abstract)
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)
2013
Automated Promotion of Technology Acceptance by Clinicians Using Relational Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference(IVA)
2013
downloadDemonstration of an Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults
14th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)
2013
downloadA Conversational Agent-based Clinical Trial Search Engine
7th annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR)
2013
downloadEnabling Web Search for Low Health Literacy Individuals Using Conversational Agents
Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC)
2013
Using virtual counselors to overcome literacy-related barriers in the collection of family health histories
Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC)
2013
An Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults
International Workshop on Techniques Toward Companion Technologies
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)
2013
Automated Interventions for Multiple Health Behaviors Using Conversational Agents
Patient Education and Counseling, 92 (2):142-148
2013
Embodied Agents for Long-Term Discourse
Phd Dissertation, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
2013
downloadSocial Desirability Bias and Engagement in Systems Designed for Long-Term Health Tracking
Phd Dissertation, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
2013
downloadAutomated Indexing of Stories for Conversational Health Intervention
MS Thesis, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
2013
download2012
An Internet-Based Virtual Coach to Promote Physical Activity Adherence in Overweight Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(1)
2012
viewFeasibility 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)
2012
downloadUsing Computer Agents to Improve Emotional Wellbeing of Hospital Patients
CHI workshop on Interaction Design and Emotional Wellbeing
2012
Using an Interactive Visual Novel to Promote Patient Empowerment through Engagement
Foundations of Digital Games
2012
downloadEfficacy of a Computer-based Intervention to Promote Walking in Older Adults
Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (abstract)
2012
downloadIncorporating motivational interviewing into virtual contraceptive counseling
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (abstract)
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)
2012
downloadEmpirical Validation of an Accommodation Theory-based Model of User-Agent Relationship
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2012
downloadHospital Buddy: A Persistent Emotional Support Companion Agent for Hospital Patients
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2012
downloadDesigning Relational Agents as Long Term Social Companions for Older Adults
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2012
downloadLongitudinal Affective Computing: Virtual Agents that Respond to User Mood
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2012
downloadFully Automated Generation of Question-Answer Pairs for Scripted Virtual Instruction
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2012
downloadFirst Impressions: users' judgments of Virtual Agents' Personality and Interpersonal Attitude in First Encounters
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)
2012
The Role of Information Technology in Health Literacy Research
Journal of Health Communication, v. 17, Supplement 3, pp 23-29
2012
Changes in Verbal and Nonverbal Conversational Behavior in Long-Term Interaction
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
2012
downloadDeveloping Virtual Patient Advocate Technology for Shared Decision Making
34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM, abstract)
2012
downloadHealth Literacy and Usability of Clinical Trial Search Engines
Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC, abstract)
2012
download2011
A Reusable Framework for Health Counseling Dialogue Systems based on a Behavioral Medicine Ontology
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 44, 183-197
2011
downloadAdapting Research-tested Computerized Tailored Interventions for Broader Dissemination and Implementation
Translational Behavioral Medicine, 1(1), 93-102
2011
downloadLongitudinal Remote Follow-Up by Intelligent Conversational Agents for Post-Hospitalization Care
AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Health Communication
2011
downloadAn Intelligent Conversational Agent for Promoting Long-term Health Behavior Change using Motivational Interviewing
AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Health Communication
2011
downloadIs 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)
2011
downloadEmploying 'Virtual Advisors' to Promote Physical Activity in Underserved Communities: Results from the COMPASS Study
Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting (abstract)
2011
downloadRelational Agents for Promoting Engagement with Underserved Populations
Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting (abstract)
2011
An On-line Preconception Care Educational Program for Young African American Women
139th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (abstract)
2011
downloadPosture, Relationship, and Discourse Structure
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Reykjavik, Iceland
2011
downloadRelational Agents Improve Engagement and Learning in Science Museum Visitors
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Reykjavik, Iceland
2011
downloadRelational Agents as an Adjunct in Treating Schizophrenia: Case Studies
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 49(8):22-29
2011
Health Literacy and Therapeutic Alliance with Relational Computer Agents
Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (abstract)
2011
2010
Empathic Touch by Relational Agents
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 1(1), 60-71
2010
downloadMaintaining Engagement in Long-term Interventions with Relational Agents
International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence special issue on Intelligent Virtual Agents 24(6): 648-666
2010
downloadRelational Agents in Clinical Psychiatry
Harvard Review of Psychiatry, special issue on Psychiatry and Cyberspace 18(2): 119-130
2010
downloadResponse to a Relational Agent by Hospital Patients with Depressive Symptoms
Interacting with Computers special issue on Mental Health 22(4), 289-298
2010
downloadMaintaining Reality: Relational Agents for Antipsychotic Medication Adherence
Interacting with Computers special issue on Mental Health 22(4) 276-288
2010
downloadIncreasing Access to Preconception Care Using Health Information Technology
Salud(i)Ciencia
2010
Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of Relational Agents for Health Counseling
Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, Atlanta, GA
2010
downloadUsability of Conversational Agents by Patients with Inadequate Health Literacy: Evidence from Two Clinical Trials
Journal of Health Communication 15, 197-210,
2010
downloadThe Impact of Linguistic and Cultural Congruity on Persuasion by Conversational Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA
2010
downloadModeling 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
2010
downloadDesigning Embodied Conversational Agents to Conduct Longitudinal Health Interviews
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA
2010
downloadMaking It Personal: End-User Authoring of Health Narratives Delivered by Virtual Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA
2010
downloadUse of a Computer Agent to Explain Anesthesia Concepts to Patients
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists
2010
download2009
Automated Explanation of Research Informed Consent by Embodied Conversational Agents
MS Thesis, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
2009
downloadEngagement vs. Deceit: Virtual Humans with Human Autobiographies
Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Amsterdam. Best Paper Award
2009
downloadDTask & LiteBody: Open Source, Standards-based Tools for Building Web-deployed Embodied Conversational Agents
Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Amsterdam.
2009
downloadShould Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Amsterdam.
2009
downloadPersuading Users through Counseling Dialogue with a Conversational Agent
Proceedings of Persuasive Technology 2009, Claremont, CA.
2009
downloadTowards Empathic Touch by Relational Agents
Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Workshop on Empathic Agents, Budapest, Hungary.
2009
downloadA Virtual Laboratory for Studying Long-term Relationships between Humans and Virtual Agents
Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Budapest, Hungary.
2009
downloadTaking the Time to Care: Empowering Low Health Literacy Hospital Patients with Virtual Nurse Agents
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Boston, MA.
2009
downloadUsing Computer Agents to Explain Medical Documents to Patients with Low Health Literacy
Patient Education and Counseling, 75(3), 315-320.
2009
downloadIssues in Designing Agents for Long Term Behavior Change
CHI'09 Workshop on Engagement by Design.
2009
downloadContext Awareness in a Handheld Exercise Agent
Pervasive and Mobile Computing special issue on Pervasive Health and Wellness, Vol 5, 226-235
2009
downloadRelational Agent Interventions for Multiple Risk Factors: Demonstration and Initial Results
Psychology & Health, 24, 403
2009
2008
The Role of Gesture in Document Explanation by Embodied Conversational Agents
International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2(1): 47-70
2008
downloadPublic Displays of Affect: Deploying Relational Agents in Public Spaces
CHI'08 Extended Abstracts.
2008
downloadRelational Agents for Antipsychotic Medication Adherence
CHI'08 workshop on Technology in Mental Health.
2008
downloadThe Identification of Users by Relational Agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) '08.
2008
downloadNegotiating Task Interruptions with Virtual Agents for Health Behavior Change
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) '08.
2008
download2007
Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) '07, Paris.
2007
downloadContext Awareness in Mobile Relational Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) '07, Paris.
2007
downloadPersuasion, Task Interruption and Health Regimen Adherence
Persuasive Technology '07, Stanford, CA.
2007
downloadWhat Would Jiminy Cricket Do? Lessons From the First Social Wearable.
HCI International '07, Beijing, China.
2007
downloadPractical Approaches to Comforting Users with Relational Agents
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), San Jose, CA.
2007
download2006
Towards Plan-based Health Behavior Change Counseling Systems.
AAAI Spring Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare, Stanford, CA.
2006
downloadModalities for Building Relationships with Handheld Computer Agents.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montreal, Canada.
2006
downloadThe Comforting Presence of Relational Agents.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montreal, Canada.
2006
downloadWearable Relational Agents for Health.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine 31 (Suppl) : S185
2006
A Handheld Animated Advisor for Physical Activity Promotion.
American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA), Washington, DC.
2006
Forging partnerships to develop and test relational agent technology to improve medication adherence in schizophrenia.
Eastern Nursing Research Society, 18th Annual Scientific Sessions, Cherry Hill, NJ
2006
2005
'It's just like you talk to a friend' Relational Agents for Older Adults.
Interacting with Computers 17 (6) : 711-735
2005
downloadEstablishing the Computer-Patient Working Alliance in Automated Health Behavior Change Interventions.
Patient Education and Couseling 59 (1) : 21-30
2005
downloadEstablishing and Maintaining Long-Term Human-Computer Relationships.
ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (ToCHI) 12 (2) : 293-327
2005
downloadAcceptance and Usability of a Relational Agent Interface by Urban Older Adults.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Portland, OR.
2005
download2004
Towards Caring Machines.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Vienna.
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.
2001