2024

Engaging and Entertaining Adolescents in Health Education Using LLM-Generated Fantasy Narrative Games and Virtual Agents

CHI Late Breaking

    Authors:
  • Ian Steenstra
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Rebecca Perkins
  • Natalie Joseph
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

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'Something I Can Lean On': A Qualitative Evaluation of a Virtual Palliative Care Counselor for Patients with Life-Limiting Illnesses

CHI Late Breaking

    Authors:
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

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Usability and Acceptability of a Conversational Agent Health Education App (Nthabi) for Young Women in Lesotho: Quantitative Study

JMIR Human Factors

    Authors:
  • Elizabeth Nkholongo
  • Mathildah Mokgatle
  • Brian Jack
  • Clevanne Julce
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

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Empathic Grounding - Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Mehdi Arjmand
  • Farnaz Nouraei
  • Ian Steenstra
  • Timothy Bickmore

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)

    Authors:
  • Hye Sun Yun
  • Mehdi Arjmand
  • Phillip Sherlock
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • James Griffith
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) BEST PAPER AWARD

    Authors:
  • Ian Steenstra
  • Farnaz Nouraei
  • Mehdi Arjmand
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

Exploring the Potential of Virtual Agents in Atrial Fibrillation Management: Insights from a Randomized Trial

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Mina Fallah
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Andrew Mrkva
  • Jared Magnani

2024

Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Mina Fallah
  • Farnaz Nouraei
  • Hye Sun Yun
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

Feeling-the-Beat: Enhancing Empathy and Engagement during Public Speaking through Heart Rate Sharing

International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Natasha Yamane
  • Javier Hernandez
  • Stacy Marsella
  • Matthew Goodwin
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

Virtual Coach-Guided Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: Pilot Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR Formative Research

    Authors:
  • Erin Reilly
  • Megan Kelly
  • Hannah Grigorian
  • Molly Waring
  • Karen Quigley
  • Timothy Hogan
  • Alicia Heapy
  • Charles Drebing
  • Matias Volonte
  • Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla
  • Hannah Robins
  • Katarina Bernice
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

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Change in Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge among Young Women Using the Conversational Agent 'Nthabi' in Lesotho: A Clinical Trial

BMC Global and Public Health

    Authors:
  • Elizabeth Nkabane-Nkholongo
  • Mathildah Mpata Mokgatle
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Clevann Julce
  • David Thompson
  • Brian Jack

2024

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Inaccurate Empathy is Worse than No Empathy in Affective Human-Robot Interaction

The 3rd Workshop on Affective Human-Robot Interaction at ACII 2024 (AHRI)

    Authors:
  • Keith Rebello
  • Stacy Marsella
  • Timothy Bickmore

2024

2023

Improving multiparty interactions with a robot using large language models

CHI Late Breaking

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Ian Steenstra
  • Hye Sun Yun
  • Ameneh Shamekhi
  • Timothy Bickmore

2023

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'Everyone is Covered': Exploring the Role of Online Interactions in Facilitating Connection and Social Support in Black Churches

CHI 2023

    Authors:
  • Darley Sackitey
  • Teresa K O'Leary
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Andrea G Parker

2023

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Sharing Speaker Heart Rate with the Audience Elicits Empathy and Increases Persuasion

Persuasive Technology 2023

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Timothy Bickmore

2023

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Influencing Health-Related Decision Making and Therapeutic Alliance with Robot Mobility and Deixis

IEEE RO-MAN

    Authors:
  • Yunus Terzioglu
  • Keith Rebello
  • Timothy Bickmore

2023

MyLynch: A Patient-Facing Clinical Decision Support Tool for Genetically-Guided Personalized Medicine in Lynch Syndrome

Cancers Journal

    Authors:
  • Stephen T Knapp
  • Anna Revette
  • Meghan Underhill-Blazey
  • Jill E Stopfer
  • Chinedu I Ukaegbu
  • Cole Poulin
  • Madison Parenteau
  • Sapna Syngal
  • Eunchan Bae
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Heather Hampel
  • Gregory E Idos
  • Giovanni Parmigiani
  • Matthew B Yurgelun
  • Danielle Braun

2023

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An 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)

    Authors:
  • Erin Reilly
  • Matias Volonte
  • Timothy Bickmore

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

    Authors:
  • Erin D Reilly
  • Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla
  • Hannah E Robins
  • Alicia A Heapy
  • Timothy P Hogan
  • Molly E Waring
  • Karen S Quigley
  • Charles E Drebing
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Matias Volonte
  • Megan M Kelly

2023

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Development and evaluation of a relational agent to assist with screening and intervention for unhealthy drinking in primary care

Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science

    Authors:
  • J Brady
  • N Livingston
  • M Sawdy
  • K Yeksigian
  • S Zhou
  • T Bickmore
  • S Simon
  • A Rubin

2023

Changing Parent Attitudes by Including Adolescents in Multiparty Counseling by Virtual Agent

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Ian Steenstra
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Rebecca Perkins
  • Natalie Joseph
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore

2023

Accomodating User Expressivity while Maintaining Safety for a Virtual Alcohol Misuse Counselor

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Paola Pedrelli
  • Byron Wallace
  • Timothy Bickmore

2023

Conversational Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Virtual Agents

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Emily Hurstak
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Howard Cabral
  • Timothy Bickmore

2023

Towards Automated Pain Assessment using Embodied Conversational Agents

The Third International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP)

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Mehdi Arjmand
  • Matias Volonte
  • Zixi Li
  • James Griffith
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore

2023

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Adaptation of the Gabby conversational agent system to improve the sexual and reproductive health of young women in Lesotho

Frontiers in Digital Health

    Authors:
  • Elizabeth Nkholongo
  • Mathildah Mokgatle
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Clevanne Julce
  • Brian Jack

2023

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Enhancing Affect Communication during Public Speaking through Sensing and Social Biofeedback

PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali

2023

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Co-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

    Authors:
  • Teresa Kenyon O'Leary

2023

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2022

Sharing the Spotlight: Co-presenting with a Humanoid Robot

Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

    Authors:
  • Yunus Terzioglu
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Timothy Bickmore

2022

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A Virtual Counselor for Breast Cancer Genetic Counseling: Adaptive Pedagogy Leads to Greater Knowledge Gain

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2022)

    Authors:
  • Shuo Zhou
  • Timothy Bickmore

2022

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Community Dynamics in Technospiritual Interventions: Lessons Learned from a Church-based mHealth Pilot

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2022)

    Authors:
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Andrea Parker

2022

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Techno-spiritual Engagement: Mechanisms for Improving Uptake of mHealth Apps Designed for Church Members

IUI Workshop on Healthy Interfaces (HEALTHI)

    Authors:
  • Hye Sun Yun
  • Shuo Zhou
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Jessica Hoffman
  • Stephen Intille
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore

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

    Authors:
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Dina Utami
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Timothy Bickmore

2022

Conversational Agents on Smartphones and the Web

Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction, Jacobson, Kowatsch, March eds, Elsevier

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Teresa O'Leary

2022

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Computer-Animated Relational Agents in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Education

Obstetrics and Gynecology

    Authors:
  • Radhika Gogoi
  • John Wallbillich
  • Ira Winer
  • Robert Morris
  • Courtney Ritchie
  • Sharon Larson
  • Joan Walker
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Erin Spencer
  • Hyejeong Jang
  • Seongho Kim
  • Jasminder Phalore
  • Thanh Bui

2022

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Intelligent Agents and Dialog Systems

Intelligent Systems in Medicine and Health: The Role of AI, Cohen, Patel, Shortliffe, eds. Springer

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Byron Wallace

2022

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Training Lay Counselors with Virtual Agents to Promote Vaccination

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Farnaz Nouraei
  • Mina Fallah
  • Aisling Kearns
  • Keith Rebello
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Rebecca Perkins
  • Natalie Joseph
  • Julien Dedier
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore

2022

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Motivating Health Behavior Change with a Storytelling Virtual Agent

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Hye Sun Yun
  • Matias Volonte
  • Timothy Bickmore

2022

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Design and rationale of the mobile health intervention for rural atrial fibrillation

American Heart Journal

    Authors:
  • Jared Magnani
  • Danielle Ferry
  • Gretchen Swabe
  • Deborah Martin
  • Xirun Chen
  • Maria Brooks
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Samar El Khoudary

2022

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Real-time Public Speaking Anxiety Prediction Model for Oral Presentations

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

    Authors:
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Rosalind Picard
  • Matthew Goodwin
  • Holly Jimison

2022

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Church after Sunday: supporting everyday well-being through techno-spiritual health interventions

Interactions

    Authors:
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Elizabeth Stowell
  • Darley Sackitey
  • Hye Sun Yun
  • David Wright
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Andrea Parker

2022

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Design, rationale, and baseline characteristics of a randomized controlled trial evaluating a mobile relational agent to enhance atrial fibrillation self-care

Contemporary Clinical Trials

    Authors:
  • Andrew Althouse
  • Kaleab Abebe
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Christina Lalama
  • Danielle Ferry
  • Michelle Lancet
  • Gretchen Swabe
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Jared Magnani

2022

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2021

Diversity Informatics: Reducing Racial and Gender Bias with Virtual Agents

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Stefan Olafsson

2021

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A 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)

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Ha Trinh
  • Timothy Bickmore

2021

Perceptions of Quantitative and Affective Meaning from Humanoid Robot Hand Gestures

International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Yunus Terzioglu
  • Shuo Zhou

2021

Mitigating Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: Exploratory Mixed Methods Experiment

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Teresa O'Leary

2021

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Health-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

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore

2021

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Computerized Relational Agent to Deliver Alcohol Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care: a Randomized Clinical Trial

Journal of General Internal Medicine

    Authors:
  • Amy Rubin
  • Nicholas Livingston
  • Julianne Brady
  • Elise Hocking
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Molly Sawdy
  • Nancy Kressin
  • richard Saitz
  • Steven Simon

2021

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Black 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

    Authors:
  • Justin Kramer
  • Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Brian Penti
  • Elisabeth Woohams
  • timothy Bickmore
  • Brian Jack

2021

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Examining the Intersections of Race, Religion & Community Technologies: A Photovoice Study

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2021)

    Authors:
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Elizabeth Stowell
  • Jessica Hoffman
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Andrea Parker

2021

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‘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)

    Authors:
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Timothy Bickmore

2021

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Sharing the Load Online: Virtual Presentations with Virtual Co-Presenter Agents

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2021)

    Authors:
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Timothy Bickmore

2021

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Automating Cancer Genetic Counseling with an Adaptive Pedagogical Agent

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2021)

    Authors:
  • Shuo Zhou
  • Timothy Bickmore

2021

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Utility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories among vulnerable patient populations: A randomized controlled trial

Patient Education and Counseling

    Authors:
  • Catharine Wang
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Howard Cabral
  • Michael Winter
  • Tricia Cunningham
  • Michelle Trevino-Talbot
  • Diana Toledo
  • Dharma Cortes
  • MaryAnn Campion
  • Timothy Bickmore

2021

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Using Health Information Technology to Engage African American Women on Nutrition and Supplement Use During the Preconception Period

frontiers in Endocrinology

    Authors:
  • Paula Gardiner
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon
  • Matthew Reichert
  • Clevanne Julce
  • Nireesha Sidduri
  • Jessica Martin-Howard
  • Elisabeth Woodhams
  • Jumana Aryan
  • Zhe Zhang
  • Juan Fernandez
  • Mark Loafman
  • Jayakanth Srinivasan
  • Howard Cabral
  • Brian Jack

2021

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Automating Cancer Genetic Counseling with Embodied Conversational Agents: A Computational Framework for Genetic Risk Communication

PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

    Authors:
  • Shuo Zhou

2021

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Automated Interventions for Public Speaking Anxiety

PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

    Authors:
  • Everlyne Kimani

2021

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A Hybrid Structured-Neural Dialog System for Automated Counseling

PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

    Authors:
  • Stefan Olafsson

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

    Authors:
  • Abby King
  • Maria Campero
  • Jylana Sheats
  • Cynthia Sweet
  • Michelle Hauser
  • Dulce Garcia
  • Aldo Chazaro
  • German Blanco
  • Jorge Banda
  • David Ahn
  • Juan Fernandez
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Improving the health of young African American women in the preconception period using health information technology: a randomised controlled trial

The Lancet: Digital Health

    Authors:
  • Brian Jack
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon
  • Matthew Reichert
  • Clevanne Julce
  • Niereesha Sidduri
  • Jessica Martin-Howard
  • Zhe Zhang
  • Elisabeth Woodhams
  • Juan Fernandez
  • Mark Loafman
  • Howard Cabral

2020

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Virtual Agents as Supporting Media for Scientific Presentations

Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Ameneh Shamekhi
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Ha Trinh

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)

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Amy Rubin
  • Steven Simon

2020

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Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Elizabeth Stowell
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Jessica Hoffman
  • Andrea Parker
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Motivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Multimodal Assessment of Oral Presentations using HMMs

ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

    Authors:
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Ameneh Shamekhi
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Sumanth Munikoti
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Study 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

    Authors:
  • Angela Walter
  • Clevanne Julce
  • Nireesha Sidduri
  • Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon
  • Jessica Howard
  • Matthew Reichert
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Brian Jack

2020

The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology Trial: Pilot Trial of a Mobile Health Application for Atrial Fibrillation

JMIR Cardio

    Authors:
  • Emily Guhl
  • Andrew Althouse
  • Alexranda Pusateri
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Jared Magnani

2020

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Using Embodied Conversational Agents to Support Mode of Birth Decisions, Perspectives of women and providers

Journal of Perinatal Education

    Authors:
  • Somphit Chinkam
  • Allison Shorten
  • Courtney Steer-Massaro
  • Zhe Zhang
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Ivan Herbey

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

    Authors:
  • Elizabeth Stowell
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Andrea Parker

2020

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Just Breathe: Towards Real-Time Intervention for Public Speaking Anxiety

IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE)

    Authors:
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

A Virtual Genetic Counselor for Breast Cancer Genetic Risk Communication

Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2020)

    Authors:
  • Shuo Zhou
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

Physical Activity Advising by Humans vs. Computers in Underserved Populations: The COMPASS2 Trial Major Results

Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2020)

    Authors:
  • Abby King
  • Ines Campero
  • Jylana Sheats
  • Cynthia Sweet
  • Michelle Hauser
  • Jorge Banda
  • David Ahn
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

Towards a Computational Framework for Automating Substance Use Counseling with Virtual Agents

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)

    Authors:
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Byron Wallace
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Navigating the Combinatorics of Virtual Agent Design Space to Maximize Persuasion

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS20)

    Authors:
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Stefan Olafsson
  • Dina Utami
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Argumentation is More Important than Appearance for Designing Culturally Tailored Virtual Agents

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Ameneh Shamekhi
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Cancer Genetic Counseling by Humanoid Robot: Modeling Multimodal Communication of Health Risk

Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) BEST PAPER AWARD

    Authors:
  • Shuo Zhou
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Meghan Underhill-Blazey
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Designing and Evaluating a Digital Family Health History Tool for Spanish Speakers

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

    Authors:
  • Maria Cerda Diez
  • Dharma E. Cortés
  • Michelle Trevino-Talbot
  • Candice Bangham
  • Michael Winter
  • Howard Cabral
  • Tricia Norkunas Cunningham
  • Diana M. Toledo
  • Deborah J. Bowen
  • Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Catharine Wang

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

    Authors:
  • Christine Gunn
  • Ariel Maschke
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Mark Kennedy
  • Margaret Hopkins
  • Michael Fishman
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Erica Warner

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

    Authors:
  • Ruth Walker
  • Sheila Drakeley
  • Clevanne Julce
  • Nireesha Sidduri
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Helen Skouteris
  • Brian Jack
  • Jacqueline Boyle

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)

    Authors:
  • Dhaval Parmar
  • Timothy Bickmore

2020

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Promotion of Preconception Care among Adolescents and Young Adults by Conversational Agent

Journal of Adolescent Health

    Authors:
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Zhe Zhang
  • Matthew Reichert
  • Clevanne Julce
  • Brian Jack

2019

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Palliative care with spiritual support by Conversational Agents

CHI Workshop on Conversational Agents for Health and Wellbeing

    Authors:
  • Prasanth Murali
  • Teresa O'Leary
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore

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

    Authors:
  • Ameneh Shamekhi

2020

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Medical Shared Decision Making with Embodied Conversational Agents

PhD Dissertation, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

    Authors:
  • Zessie (Zhe) Zhang

2020

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2019

Collaborative User Responses in Multiparty Interaction with a Couples Counselor Robot

Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

    Authors:
  • Utami, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2019

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

2019 Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Olafsson, S.
  • O'Leary, T.
  • Bickmore, T.

2019

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You’ll be Great: Virtual Agent-based Cognitive Restructuring to Reduce Public Speaking Anxiety

8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019)

    Authors:
  • Kimani, E
  • Trinh, H
  • Pedrelli, P
  • Bickmore, T

2019

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Stagecraft for Scientists: Exploring Novel Interaction Formats for Virtual Co-Presenter Agents

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Kimani, E
  • Shamekhi, A
  • Parmar, D
  • Bickmore, T

2019

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Health Counseling by Robots: Modalities for Breastfeeding Promotion

28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2019)

    Authors:
  • Murali, P
  • O'Leary, T
  • Shamekhi, A
  • Bickmore, T

2019

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

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 8(3-4)

    Authors:
  • Abdullah, A
  • Gaehde, S
  • Bickmore, T

2019

A Multimodal Robot-Driven Meeting Facilitation System for Group Decision-Making Sessions

21st ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019)

    Authors:
  • Shamekhi, A
  • Bickmore, T

2019

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Designing and Evaluating a Digital Family Health History Tool for Spanish Speakers

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

    Authors:
  • Christine Gunn
  • Maria Cerda Diez
  • Dharma Cortés
  • Michelle Trevino-Talbot
  • Candice Bangham
  • Michael Winter
  • Howard Cabral
  • Tricia Norkunas Cunningham
  • Diana Toledo
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Michael Paasche-Orlow
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Catharine Wang

2019

Computational Framework for Facilitating Intimate Dyadic Communication

PhD Dissertation, Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences

    Authors:
  • Dina Utami

2019

2018

Breathe Deep: A Breath-Sensitive Interactive Meditation Coach

Pervasive Health Conference

    Authors:
  • Shamehki, A.
  • Bickmore, T.

2018

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

Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

    Authors:
  • Asadi, R.
  • Trinh, A.
  • Fell, H.
  • Bickmore, T.

2018

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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

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Waite, K.
  • Henault, L.
  • Armstrong, L.
  • Jones, S.
  • Zang, Z.
  • Utami, D.
  • Shamekhi, A.
  • Olafsson, S.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2018

Predicting User Engagement in Longitudinal Interventions with Virtual Agents

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Trinh, H.
  • Shamekhi, A.
  • Kimani, E.
  • Bickmore, T.

2018

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Speaker Hand-Offs in Collaborative Human-Agent Oral Presentations

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Murali, p.
  • Ring, L.
  • Trinh, H.
  • Asadi, R.
  • Bickmore, T.

2018

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Managing Chronic Conditions with a Smartphone-based Conversational Virtual Agent

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Kimani, E.
  • Trinh, H.
  • Pusateri, A.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Magnani, J.

2018

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Medical Shared Decision Making with a Virtual Agent

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Zhang, Z.
  • Bickmore, T.

2018

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User Gaze Behavior while Discussing Substance Use with a Virtual Agent

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Zhou, S.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Rubin, A.
  • Yeksigian, C.
  • Sawdy, M.
  • Simon, S.

2018

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

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Parmar, D.
  • Olafsson, S.
  • Utami, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2018

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

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

    Authors:
  • Zhang, Z.
  • Bickmore, T.

2018

Creating New Technologies for Companionable Agents to Support Isolated Older Adults

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

    Authors:
  • Sidner, C.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Nooraie, B.
  • Rich, C.
  • Ring, L.
  • Shayganfar, M.
  • Vardoulakis, L.

2018

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

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(2)

    Authors:
  • Sillice, M.
  • Morokoff, P.
  • Ferszt, G.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Bock, B.
  • Lantini, R.
  • Velicer, W.

2018

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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

    Authors:
  • Abdullah, A.
  • Gaehde, S.
  • Bickmore, T.

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)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Trinh, H.
  • Olafsson, S.
  • Leary, T.
  • Asadi, R.
  • Rickles, N.
  • Cruz, R.

2018

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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

    Authors:
  • Abdullah, A
  • Gaehde, S
  • Bickmore, T

2018

Safety First: Conversational Agents in Healthcare

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T
  • Trinh, H
  • Asadi, R

2018

2017

A Robotic Couples Counselor for Promoting Positive Communication

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

    Authors:
  • Utami, D.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Kruger, L.

2017

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RoboCOP: A Robotic Coach for Oral Presentations

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

    Authors:
  • Trinh, H.
  • Asadi, R.
  • Edge, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2017

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

International Conference on Virtual Social Interaction

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Zhang, Z.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2017

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

Persuasive Technology Conference

    Authors:
  • Shamekhi, A.
  • Bickmore, T.

2017

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Designing Health Conversations with Relational Agents

CHI'17 Workshop on Conversational UX Design

    Authors:
  • Trinh, H.
  • Asadi, R.
  • Bickmore, T.

2017

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

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

    Authors:
  • Zhou, S.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Rubin, A.
  • Yeksigian, K.
  • Foster, R.
  • Heilman, M.
  • Simon, S.

2017

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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)

    Authors:
  • Shamekhi, A.
  • Trinh, H.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Ellis, T.
  • Houlihan, B.
  • Latham, N.

2017

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

Patient Education and Counseling

    Authors:
  • Gardiner, P.
  • McCue, K.
  • Negash, L.
  • Cheng, T.
  • White, L.
  • Nyahkoon, J.
  • ack, B.
  • Bickmore, T.

2017

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

American Spinal Injury Association Conference

    Authors:
  • Latham, N.
  • Houlihan, B.
  • Trinh, H.
  • Shamekhi, A.
  • Ellis, T.
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Olafsson, S.
  • Kimani, E.
  • Asadi, R.
  • Bickmore, T.

2017

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

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Utami, D.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Nikolopoulou, A.
  • Paasche-Paasche-Orlow, M.

2017

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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)

    Authors:
  • 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.
  • Houston, T.

2017

Adapting a Persuasive Conversational Agent for the Chinese Culture

International Conference on Culture and Computing

    Authors:
  • Zhou, S.
  • Zhang, Z.
  • Bickmore, T.

2017

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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

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Magnani, J.
  • Guhl, E.
  • Schlusser, C.
  • Henault, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Kimani, E.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2017

Culturally-Aware Healthcare Systems

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

    Authors:
  • Yin, L.
  • Bickmore, T.

2017

The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology System: Pilot Assessment

JMIR Cardio

    Authors:
  • Magnani, J.
  • Schlusser, C.
  • Kimani, E.
  • Rollman, B.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Bickmore, T.

2017

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

Contemporary Clinical Trials, 54, 25-35

    Authors:
  • Gardiner, P.
  • Lestoquoy, A.
  • Barnett, K.
  • Penti, B.
  • White, L.
  • Saper, R.
  • Fredman, L.
  • Stillman, S.
  • Negash, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Adelstein, P.
  • Brackup, I.
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Ring, L.

2017

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2016

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

Journal of Medical Internet Research

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Utami, D.
  • Matsuyama, R.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2016

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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 27(3):1427-1440

    Authors:
  • Eneanya, N.
  • Winter, M.
  • Cabral, H.
  • Waite, K.
  • Henault, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Hanchate, A.
  • Wolf, M.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2016

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

Patient Education and Counseling 99(6):1033-1037

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.

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)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Zhang, Z.
  • Edwards, R.

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)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.

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

    Authors:
  • Ring, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pedrelli, P.

2016

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First Impressions in Human-Agent Virtual Encounters

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI)

    Authors:
  • Cafaro, A.
  • Vilhjalmsson, H.
  • Bickmore, T.

2016

Real-time Presentation Tracking Using Semantic Keyword Spotting

Interspeech

    Authors:
  • Asadi, R.
  • Fell, H.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Trinh, H.

2016

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

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Kimani, K.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Trinh, H.
  • Ring, L.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Magnani, J.

2016

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Increasing Engagement with Virtual Agents Using Automatic Camera Motion

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Ring, L.
  • Utami, D.
  • Olafsson, S.
  • Bickmore, T.

2016

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

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Trinh, H.
  • Hoppmann, M.
  • Asadi, R.

2016

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

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Trinh, H.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Edge, D.
  • Ring, L.

2016

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

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Shamekhi, A.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Lestoquoy, A.
  • Negash, L.
  • Gardiner, P.

2016

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

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

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Trinh, H.
  • Ring, L.
  • Bickmore, T.

2015

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

Genetics in Medicine, 17:822-830

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Jack, B.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Hempstead, M.
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • 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

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Adapting a Geriatrics Health Counseling Virtual Agent for the Chinese Culture

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Zhang, Z.
  • Trinh, H.
  • Chen, Q.
  • Bickmore, T.

2015

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A Feminist Virtual Agent for Breastfeeding Promotion

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Shi, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Edwards, R.

2015

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Breathe with Me: A Virtual Meditation Coach

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Shamekhi, A.
  • Bickmore, T.

2015

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Automated Explanation of Research Informed Consent by Virtual Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Utami, D.
  • Zhou, S.
  • Sidner, C.
  • Quintiliani, L.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2015

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Increasing Engagement with Conversational Agents Using Co-Constructed Storytelling

Eighth workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (Int8)

    Authors:
  • Battaglino, C.
  • Bickmore, T.

2015

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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

    Authors:
  • Mccue, K.
  • Shamekhi, A.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Crooks, D.
  • Barnett, K.
  • Haas, N.
  • Johnson, G.
  • Gardiner, P.

2015

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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

    Authors:
  • Mccue, K.
  • Gardiner, P.
  • Bickmore, T.

2015

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

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

    Authors:
  • Yin, L.

2015

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2014

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

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

    Authors:
  • Zhou, S.
  • Gali, R.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Bickmore, T.

2014

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Supporting Longitudinal Change in Many Health Behaviors

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

    Authors:
  • Ren, J.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Jack, B.
  • Bickmore, T.

2014

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

International Congress of Behavioral Medicine (abstract)

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Zhou, S.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Jack, B.

2014

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The Right Agent for the Job? The effects of agent visual appearance on task domain

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Ring, L.
  • Utami, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2014

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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)

    Authors:
  • Ren, J.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Hempstead, M.
  • Jack, B.

2014

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Maintaining Continuity in Longitudinal, Multi-Method Health Interventions Using Virtual Agents: The Case of Breastfeeding Promotion

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Zhang, Z.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Mainello, K.
  • Mueller, M.
  • Foley, M.
  • Jenkins, L.
  • Edwards, R.

2014

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Representing Communicative Functions in SAIBA with a Unified Function Markup Language

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Yin, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Montfort, N.

2014

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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

    Authors:
  • Penti, B.
  • Hempstead, M.
  • Mitchell, S.
  • Gardiner, P.
  • Damus, K.
  • Sadikova, E.
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Manuvinakurike, R.
  • Velicer, W.
  • Bickmore, T.

2014

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2013

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

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

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Ring, L.
  • Barry, B.
  • Totzke, K.
  • Bickmore, T.

2013

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Tinker - A Relational Agent Museum Guide

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

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Gardiner, P.
  • Hempstead, M.
  • Ring, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Cafaro, A.
  • Vilhjalmsson, H.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Heylen, D.
  • Schulman, D.

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

    Authors:
  • Ellis, T.
  • Latham, N.
  • DeAngelis, T.
  • Thomas, C.
  • Saint-Hilaire, M.
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Yin, L.

2013

Reaching Minority Populations with Relational Agents

Society of Behavioral Medicine 2013 Annual Meeting (abstract)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Yin, L.
  • Ring, L.

2013

Conversational Interfaces in HCI and Behavioral Medicine

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    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • McNair, S.
  • Checchi, K.
  • Rubin, A.
  • Marcello, T.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Simon, S.

2013

Indexing Stories for Conversational Health Interventions

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

    Authors:
  • Manuvinakurike, R.
  • Barry, B.
  • Bickmore, T.

2013

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Agent-mediated Patient-Clinician Communication

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.

2013

Inadequate Health Literacy as a Vulnerability

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

    Authors:
  • Utami, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2013

Feasibility of using Virtual Counselors to Collect Family Health Histories from Underserved Populations

American Public Health Association annual meeting (abstract)

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Vardoulakis, L.
  • Jack, B.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2013

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Demonstration of an Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults

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

    Authors:
  • Sidner, C.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Rich, C.
  • Barry, B.
  • Ring, L.
  • Behrooz, M.
  • Shayganfar, M.

2013

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A Conversational Agent-based Clinical Trial Search Engine

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

    Authors:
  • Utami, D.
  • Barry, B.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2013

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Enabling Web Search for Low Health Literacy Individuals Using Conversational Agents

Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC)

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Sidner, C.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Rich, C.
  • Barry, B.
  • Ring, L.
  • Behrooz, M.
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Sidner, C.

2013

Embodied Agents for Long-Term Discourse

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

    Authors:
  • Schulman, D.

2013

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Social Desirability Bias and Engagement in Systems Designed for Long-Term Health Tracking

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

    Authors:
  • Vardoulakis, L.

2013

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Automated Indexing of Stories for Conversational Health Intervention

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

    Authors:
  • Manuvinakurike, R.

2013

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2012

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

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(1)

    Authors:
  • Watson, A.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Cange, A.
  • Kulshreshtha, A.
  • Kvedar, J.

2012

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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)

    Authors:
  • Ellis, T.
  • Latham, N.
  • DeAngelis, T.
  • Hendron, K.
  • Thomas, C.
  • Hilaire, M.
  • Bickmore, T.

2012

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Using Computer Agents to Improve Emotional Wellbeing of Hospital Patients

CHI workshop on Interaction Design and Emotional Wellbeing

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Yin, L.
  • Ring, L.
  • Bickmore, T.

2012

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Efficacy of a Computer-based Intervention to Promote Walking in Older Adults

Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (abstract)

    Authors:
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Silliman, R.
  • Winter, M.
  • Cheng, D.
  • Henault, L.
  • Bickmore, T.

2012

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Incorporating motivational interviewing into virtual contraceptive counseling

American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (abstract)

    Authors:
  • Imperato, C.
  • Damus, K.
  • Hempstead, M.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Kopy, M.
  • Tran, H.
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Edwards, R.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Jenkins, L.
  • Foley, M.

2012

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Empirical Validation of an Accommodation Theory-based Model of User-Agent Relationship

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.

2012

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Hospital Buddy: A Persistent Emotional Support Companion Agent for Hospital Patients

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Bukhari, L.
  • Vardoulakis, L.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Shanahan, C.

2012

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Designing Relational Agents as Long Term Social Companions for Older Adults

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Vardoulakis, L.
  • Ring, L.
  • Barry, B.
  • Sidner, C.
  • Bickmore, T.

2012

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Longitudinal Affective Computing: Virtual Agents that Respond to User Mood

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Ring, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.

2012

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Fully Automated Generation of Question-Answer Pairs for Scripted Virtual Instruction

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Kuyten, P.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Stoyanchev, S.
  • Piwek, P.
  • Prendinger, H.
  • Ishizuka, M.

2012

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First Impressions: users' judgments of Virtual Agents' Personality and Interpersonal Attitude in First Encounters

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA)

    Authors:
  • Cafaro, A.
  • Vilhjálmsson, H.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Heylen, D.
  • Jóhannsdóttir, K.
  • Valgarðsson, G.

2012

The Role of Information Technology in Health Literacy Research

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2012

Changes in Verbal and Nonverbal Conversational Behavior in Long-Term Interaction

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

    Authors:
  • Schulman, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2012

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Developing Virtual Patient Advocate Technology for Shared Decision Making

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

    Authors:
  • Mitchell, S.
  • Imperato, C.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Hempstead, M.
  • Tran, H.
  • Kopy, M.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Jack, B.

2012

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Health Literacy and Usability of Clinical Trial Search Engines

Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC, abstract)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Aziz, M.
  • Barry, B.

2012

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2011

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

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 44, 183-197

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Sidner, C.

2011

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Adapting Research-tested Computerized Tailored Interventions for Broader Dissemination and Implementation

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

    Authors:
  • Vinson, C.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Farrell, D.
  • Campbell, M.
  • An, L.
  • Saunders, E.
  • Nowak, M.
  • Fowler, B.
  • Shaikh, A.

2011

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Longitudinal Remote Follow-Up by Intelligent Conversational Agents for Post-Hospitalization Care

AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Health Communication

    Authors:
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Bickmore, T.

2011

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An Intelligent Conversational Agent for Promoting Long-term Health Behavior Change using Motivational Interviewing

AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Health Communication

    Authors:
  • Schulman, D.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Sidner, C.

2011

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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)

    Authors:
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Bickmore, T.

2011

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Employing 'Virtual Advisors' to Promote Physical Activity in Underserved Communities: Results from the COMPASS Study

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

    Authors:
  • King, A.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Campero, I.
  • Pruitt, L.
  • Yin, L.

2011

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Relational Agents for Promoting Engagement with Underserved Populations

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

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Yinusa-Nyahkoon, L.
  • Cuoco, M.
  • Ring, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Paasche-Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Damus, K.
  • Jack, B.

2011

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Posture, Relationship, and Discourse Structure

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Reykjavik, Iceland

    Authors:
  • Schulman, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2011

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Relational Agents Improve Engagement and Learning in Science Museum Visitors

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Reykjavik, Iceland

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Schulman, D.

2011

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Relational Agents as an Adjunct in Treating Schizophrenia: Case Studies

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

    Authors:
  • 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)

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2011

2010

Empathic Touch by Relational Agents

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Fernando, R.
  • Ring, L.
  • Schulman, D.

2010

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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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Yin, L.

2010

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Relational Agents in Clinical Psychiatry

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Gruber, A.

2010

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Response to a Relational Agent by Hospital Patients with Depressive Symptoms

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Mitchell, S.
  • Jack, B.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • ODonnell, J.

2010

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Maintaining Reality: Relational Agents for Antipsychotic Medication Adherence

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Puskar, K.
  • Schlenk, E.
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Sereika, S.

2010

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Increasing Access to Preconception Care Using Health Information Technology

Salud(i)Ciencia

    Authors:
  • 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

    Authors:
  • Yin, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Byron, D.
  • Cortes, D.

2010

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Usability of Conversational Agents by Patients with Inadequate Health Literacy: Evidence from Two Clinical Trials

Journal of Health Communication 15, 197-210,

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Byron, D.
  • Forsythe, S.
  • Henault, L.
  • Jack, B.
  • Silliman, R.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2010

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The Impact of Linguistic and Cultural Congruity on Persuasion by Conversational Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA

    Authors:
  • Yin, L.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Cortes, D.

2010

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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

    Authors:
  • Schulman, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2010

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Designing Embodied Conversational Agents to Conduct Longitudinal Health Interviews

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA

    Authors:
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Bickmore, T.

2010

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Making It Personal: End-User Authoring of Health Narratives Delivered by Virtual Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA), Philadelphia, PA

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Ring, L.

2010

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Use of a Computer Agent to Explain Anesthesia Concepts to Patients

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

    Authors:
  • Ehrenfeld, J.
  • Sandberg, W.
  • Warren, L.
  • Kwo, J.
  • Bickmore, T.

2010

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2009

Automated Explanation of Research Informed Consent by Embodied Conversational Agents

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

    Authors:
  • Fernando, R.

2009

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Engagement vs. Deceit: Virtual Humans with Human Autobiographies

Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Amsterdam. Best Paper Award

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Yin, L.

2009

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DTask & LiteBody: Open Source, Standards-based Tools for Building Web-deployed Embodied Conversational Agents

Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Amsterdam.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Shaw, G.

2009

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Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents

Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Amsterdam.

    Authors:
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Bickmore, T.

2009

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Persuading Users through Counseling Dialogue with a Conversational Agent

Proceedings of Persuasive Technology 2009, Claremont, CA.

    Authors:
  • Schulman, D.
  • Bickmore, T.

2009

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Towards Empathic Touch by Relational Agents

Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Workshop on Empathic Agents, Budapest, Hungary.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Fernando, R.

2009

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A Virtual Laboratory for Studying Long-term Relationships between Humans and Virtual Agents

Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Budapest, Hungary.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.

2009

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Taking 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.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Jack, B.

2009

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Using Computer Agents to Explain Medical Documents to Patients with Low Health Literacy

Patient Education and Counseling, 75(3), 315-320.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pfiefer, L.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2009

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Issues in Designing Agents for Long Term Behavior Change

CHI'09 Workshop on Engagement by Design.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Sidner, C.

2009

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Context Awareness in a Handheld Exercise Agent

Pervasive and Mobile Computing special issue on Pervasive Health and Wellness, Vol 5, 226-235

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Mauer, D.
  • Brown, T.

2009

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Relational Agent Interventions for Multiple Risk Factors: Demonstration and Initial Results

Psychology & Health, 24, 403

    Authors:
  • Velicer, W.
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Blissmer, B.
  • Redding, C.
  • Johnson, J.
  • Meier, K.
  • Zaffini, J.

2009

2008

The Role of Gesture in Document Explanation by Embodied Conversational Agents

International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2(1): 47-70

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Yin, L.

2008

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Public Displays of Affect: Deploying Relational Agents in Public Spaces

CHI'08 Extended Abstracts.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Schulman, D.
  • Perera, S.
  • Senanayake, C.
  • Nazmi, I.

2008

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Relational Agents for Antipsychotic Medication Adherence

CHI'08 workshop on Technology in Mental Health.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pfeifer, L.

2008

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The Identification of Users by Relational Agents

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) '08.

    Authors:
  • Schulman, D.
  • Sharma, M.
  • Bickmore, T.

2008

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Negotiating Task Interruptions with Virtual Agents for Health Behavior Change

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) '08.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Mauer, D.
  • Crespo, F.
  • Brown, T.

2008

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2007

Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) '07, Paris.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Pfeifer, L.
  • Paasche-Orlow, M.

2007

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Context Awareness in Mobile Relational Agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) '07, Paris.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Mauer, D.
  • Brown, T.

2007

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Persuasion, Task Interruption and Health Regimen Adherence

Persuasive Technology '07, Stanford, CA.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Mauer, D.
  • Crespo, F.
  • Brown, T.

2007

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What Would Jiminy Cricket Do? Lessons From the First Social Wearable.

HCI International '07, Beijing, China.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.

2007

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Practical Approaches to Comforting Users with Relational Agents

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), San Jose, CA.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.

2007

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2006

Towards Plan-based Health Behavior Change Counseling Systems.

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Sidner, C.

2006

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Modalities for Building Relationships with Handheld Computer Agents.

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Mauer, D.

2006

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The Comforting Presence of Relational Agents.

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Schulman, D.

2006

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Wearable Relational Agents for Health.

Annals of Behavioral Medicine 31 (Suppl) : S185

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.

2006

A Handheld Animated Advisor for Physical Activity Promotion.

American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA), Washington, DC.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Gruber, A.
  • Intille, S.
  • Mauer, D.

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

    Authors:
  • Schlenk, E. A.
  • Puskar, K.
  • Sereika, S.
  • Bickmore, T.

2006

2005

'It's just like you talk to a friend' Relational Agents for Older Adults.

Interacting with Computers 17 (6) : 711-735

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Caruso, L.
  • Gorr, K.
  • Heeren, T.

2005

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Establishing the Computer-Patient Working Alliance in Automated Health Behavior Change Interventions.

Patient Education and Couseling 59 (1) : 21-30

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Picard, R.

2005

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Establishing and Maintaining Long-Term Human-Computer Relationships.

ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (ToCHI) 12 (2) : 293-327

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Picard, R.

2005

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Acceptance 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.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Caruso, L.
  • Gorr, K.

2005

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2004

Towards Caring Machines.

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

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • 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.

    Authors:
  • Bickmore, T.
  • Cassell, J.

2001