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GFY25: ICT Achievements 

Published: October 1, 2025
Category: News

The Government Fiscal Year 2025 (October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025) represents a productive year across ICT’s 17 Labs.

Our researchers published 98 papers, plus 11 collaborative publications with Army Research Lab (ARL) / other DoD partners, and delivered 22 keynote and invited talks, most notably: Dr. Paul Graham on the State of AI in the MS&T Industry Panel, Congressional Modeling and Simulation Leadership Summit, Dr. Gale Lucas at MIT CSAIL, Dr. Jonathan Gratch at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Dr. Leslie Saxon at the Apple Health Research Summit.

Notable recognition included Dr. Albert “Skip” Rizzo’s induction into the XR Hall of Fame, Sharon Mozgai’s Patriot Award from the U.S. Department of Defense, and a Gold Medal for the Vision and Graphics Lab, led by Dr. Yajie Zhao, at CVPR’s Image Matching Challenge. Dr. David Traum advanced to Editor-in-Chief of Dialogue and Discourse, building on his 16-year tenure with the journal. 

This past year, ICT’s research has been translated into practical applications through 5 invention disclosures and 5 technology transitions, including the Battle Buddy license to Soldier Strong Foundation. 

These accomplishments reflect ongoing work in virtual reality healthcare applications, affective computing, human-AI interaction, computer vision, and intelligent virtual agents, while maintaining collaborative ties with military, academic, and industry partners.

FULL LIST

  1. Honors & Awards (6)
  2. Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships (15)
  3. Board/Committee Memberships (4)
  4. Conference Chairs (7)
  5. Keynote & Invited Talks (22)
  6. Invention Disclosures (5)
  7. Software Disclosures (1)
  8. Technology Transitions / Deployed Technologies (5)
  9. Patent Applications (0)
  10. Patents (0)
  11. Publications (98)
  12. Co-Authored with ARL/DoD (11)

Honors & Awards OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

  1. Skip Rizzo, Annual Hero Award, International Virtual Reality Health Association (IVRHA) 2025
  2. Jonathan Gratch, Best Paper at IEEE VR with Seoyoung Kang, a visiting intern from KAIST Korea, How Collaboration Context and Personality Traits Shape the Social Norms of Human-to-Avatar Identity Representation, March 2025
  3. Sharon Mozgai. Patriot Award. U.S. Department of Defense, ESGR.  https://www.esgr.mil/Employer-Awards/Patriot-Award. June 2025
  4. Skip Rizzo, Augmented Worlds Exposition XR Hall of Fame Inductee. June 2025
  5. Gonglin Chen, Tianwen Fu, Haiwei Chen, Wenbin Teng, Hanyuan Xiao, & Yajie Zhao (Vision and Graphics Lab) received the Gold Medalist recognition (4th-place out of 943 submissions) at the Image Matching Challenge at CVPR, June 2025.

Editorships and Editorial Board Membership OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

  1. Jonathan Gratch, Guest Editor, Cognition and Emotion, 2024-
  2. Jonathan Gratch, Associate Editor, Affective Science, 2019-
  3. Jonathan Gratch, Associate Editor, Emotion Review, 2007-
  4. Andrew S. Gordon, Editorial Board Member, Journal of Interactive Narrative Research, 2022-
  5. David Traum, Associate Editor, Dialogue and Discourse, 2009-2025
  6. Kallirroi Georgila, Associate Editor, Dialogue and Discourse, 2019-
  7. Kallirroi Georgila, Action Editor, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024-
  8. Kallirroi Georgila, Senior Action Editor, ACL Rolling Review, 2024-
  9. David Traum, Editor in Chief, Dialogue and Discourse, 2025-
  10. Nikolos Gurney, Associate Editor, Frontiers, Computational Intelligence in Robotics, 2024-2025
  11. Benjamin Nye, Associate Editor, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2024-Present)
  12. Skip Rizzo, Chief Editor, Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Virtual Reality in Medicine, (2019 to Present)
  13. Skip Rizzo, Senior Editor, Virtual Reality Journal, (2021 to Present)
  14. Skip Rizzo, Senior Associate Editor, Journal of Medical Extended Reality, (2023 to Present)
  15. Skip Rizzo, Editorial Board Member, Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, (2018 to Present); Alzheimer’s & Dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association (2013 to Present); The Computer Games Journal (2012 to Present); Journal of Communication in Healthcare (Jan. 2011 to Present)

Board/Committee Memberships OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

  1. Andrew S. Gordon, Advisory Board Member, Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives, 2019-
  2. Jonathan Gratch, Advisory Board Member, International Society for Emotion Research
  3. Jonathan Gratch, Publication Board Member, Society for Affective Science
  4. Skip Rizzo, Board Member, AR/VR Association Committee on VR Research Guidelines; Children’s Specialized Hospital of New Jersey Foundation; Wonderseed Foundation (Disadvantaged Youth); Soldier Strong Foundation (Veteran support); Hollenbeck Palms Board of Trustees (Senior Care)

Conference Chairs OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025

  1. Jonathan Gratch and Gale Lucas, General Chairs, International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, September 2026
  2. Mohammad Soleymani, Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2026
  3. Jonathan Gratch, Co-Chair, Summit on AI and Negotiation, March 7-9, 2025
  4. Jonathan Gratch, Advisory Chair, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2024 
  5. Mohammad Soleymani, General Chair, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2024 
  6. Gale Lucas, Program Chair, ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2024 
  7. Kallirroi Georgila, Senior Area Chair, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025

Keynote & Invited Talks OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

  1. Jonathan Gratch, Invited talk, Goldsmiths University Virtual Reality group, June 2025
  2. Jonathan Gratch, Keynote, 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, May 2025
  3. Mohammad Soleymani, Chilean Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning, 17 December 2024 Chile (remote presentation). 
  4. Andrew Gordon, Keynote, Logical Abduction as a Computational Model of Narrative, Eighth International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, Geneva Switzerland, May 28-30, 2025
  5. Leslie Saxon, Apple Health Research Summit, October 2024
  6. Skip Rizzo, Dreams & Nightmares: The past 10 Years of Immersive Tech, Immersive Tech Week, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dec. 5, 2025
  7. Skip Rizzo, XR and AI for Well-being: Developing a Politics of Care. Immersive Tech Week, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dec. 5, 2024
  8. Skip RIzzo, 10th Anniversary Opening Commentary. Immersive Tech Week, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dec. 4, 2024
  9. Skip Rizzo, Virtual Reality Classroom for Attention Process Assessment in Children with ADHD & Beyond! Annual CHADD ADHD2025 Online Conference. March 7, 2025
  10. Skip Rizzo, The Intersection of VR and Anxiety Treatment. Rewiring Fear & Anxiety World Summit. Online presentation. March 7, 2025
  11. Skip Rizzo, Clinical Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies: A Brief Review of the Future. UCLA Emerging Themes in Behavioral Health 2025, Los Angeles, CA., May 1, 2025
  12. Skip Rizzo, Keynote on Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Annual XR4REHAB Conference 2025. Politecnico Lecco (Milan). June 26, 2025
  13. Skip Rizzo, Keynote on Clinical VR. First International Conference on Virtual Reality Healthcare, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, January 27, 2025
  14. Gale Lucas, Invited Talk, Understanding complexities in individual experiences of office worker stress: Utility of environmental and egocentric sensing. Office Ergonomics Research Committee Marconi Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 15, 2025
  15.  Gale Lucas, Invited Talk, Cognitive science and realistic NPCs. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, January 13, 2025
  16. Volkan Ustun, Invited Talk, Human-inspired Adaptive Teaming Systems. Army Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop, October 2024
  17. Graham, Paul, Invited Talk, State of AI in the MS&T Industry Panel, Congressional Modeling and Simulation Leadership Summit 2025, National Training & Simulation Association, February 19, 2025
  18. Yajie Zhao, Invited Talk, The 2024 Global Innovation Summit, San Diego, October 13, 2024.
  19. Yajie Zhao, Invited Talk, Awe and Wonder performance connecting scientists with choreographers, November 17, 2024.
  20. Yajie Zhao, Invited Talk, DARPA and UL Research Institutes on the topic of Deepfakes, January 14, 2025.
  21. Yajie Zhao, Invited Talk, FlawlessAI, AI-based Virtual Human Generation, November 20, 2024.
  22. Yajie Zhao, Invited Talk, Land System Science Technology Office of British Defense on Human Performance, October 21, 2024.

Invention Disclosures OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

  1. Yajie Zhao, Haiwei Chen. Dont’ Look Into the Dark: Latent Codes for Pluralistic Image Inpainting. February 24, 2025.
  2. Yingshu Chen, Huajian Huang, Pratusha Prasad, Hanyuan Xiao, Haolin Xiong, Jing Yang, Yajie Zhao. Localized Gaussian Splatting Editing with Contextual Awareness. February 21, 2025.
  3. Yajie Zhao, Pratusha Prasad. Bifocal Polarization Sensitive Metalens for Rapid BRDF Estimation. February 21, 2025.
  4. Yunxuan Cai, Zongjian Li, Siato Xiang, Yajie Zhao. Bringing Diversity from Diffusion Models to Semantic-Guided Face Asset Generation, aka Text2Avatar. October 21, 2024.
  5. Yunxuan Cai, Zongjian Li, Siato Xiang, Yajie Zhao. 45K AI-Generated Faces under T2A. October 15, 2024.

Software Disclosures OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

  1. Yajie Zhao, Hanyuan Xiao. Localized Gaussian Splatting Editing with Contextual Awareness (software), February 25, 2025.

Technology Transitions / Deployed Technologies OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

  1. From Test-Taking to Test-Making: Examining LLM Authoring of Commonsense Assessment Items
  2. Modeling Cognitive Biases in Cybersecurity Attack Sequences — initial discussions with Denso
  3. Personal Assistant for Life-Long Learning: Game-if-AI (GAI), release to public app stores and public-facing web portal
  4. Battle Buddy non-exclusive license to the Soldier Strong Foundation.
  5. AIRCOEE MOU signed with LAUSD for AI Upskilling with DACE (Adult Education) teachers.

Patent Applications OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

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Patents OCT 1, 2025 – SEPT 30, 2025 

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Publications OCT 1, 2024 – SEPT 30, 2025 

  1. Johansen, T., Matre, M., Løvstad, M., Olsen, A., Lund, A., Trægde Martinsen, A-C., Becker, F., Brunborg, C., Rizzo, A., Spikman, J.M., Neumann, D., Ponsford, J. & Tornås, S. (2025). Virtual reality in training of sustained attention, processing speed, and working memory after traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
  2. Rizzo, A., Mozgai, S., Sigaras A., Rubin, J.E. & Jotwani, R. (2025). Expert Consensus Best Practices for the Safe, Ethical, and Effective Design and Implementation of Artificially Intelligent Conversational Agent (i.e. Chatbot/Virtual Human) Systems in Healthcare Applications. Journal of Medical Extended Reality. In Press, July 2025.
  3. Chang, D., Xu, H., Xie, Y., Gao, Y., Kuang, Z., Cai, S., Zhang, C., Song, G., Wang, C., Shi, Y. and Chen, Z., 2025. X-Dyna: Expressive Dynamic Human Image Animation. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025.
  4. Siniukov, M., Chang, D., Tran, M., Gong, H., Chaubey, A., and Soleymani, M. DiTaiListener: Controllable High Fidelity Listener Video Generation with Diffusion, Accepted to International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2025).
  5. Chaubey, A., Guan, X., and Soleymani, M. Face-LLaVA: Facial Expression and Attribute Understanding through Instruction Tuning (2025) (preprint).
  6. Tran, M., Yin, Y., and Soleymani, M. (2025). SetPeER: Set-Based Personalized Emotion Recognition With Weak Supervision. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
  7. Gómez-Zaragozá, L., Marín-Morales, J., Mariano Alcañiz and Soleymani, M (2025). Speech and Text Foundation Models for Depression Detection: Cross-Task and Cross-Language Evaluation, INTERSPEECH, August 2025.
  8.  Zhang, H., Chang, D., Li, F., Soleymani, M. and Ahuja, N. (2025). MagicPose4D: Crafting Articulated Models with Appearance and Motion Control, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
  9. Kwon, D., Weiss, E., Kulshrestha, T., Chawla, K., Lucas, G.., & Gratch, J. (2024). Are LLMs Effective Negotiators? Systematic Evaluation of the Multifaceted Capabilities of LLMs in Negotiation Dialogues. EMNLP, Miami, FL. November 2024.
  10. Liu, R., Xu, R., Hu, Y., Chen, M., & Feng, A. (2024). AtomGS: Atomizing Gaussian Splatting for high-fidelity radiance field. In Proceedings of the 35th British Machine Vision Conference 2024 (BMVC).
  11. Roemmele, M. and Gordon, A. (2024). From Test-Taking to Test-Making: Examining LLM Authoring of Commonsense Assessment Items. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP, Miami, FL. November 2024.
  12. DeTore, N., Balogun-Mwangi, O., Eberlin E., Dokholyan, K., Rizzo, A., Holt, D. (2024). An Artificial Intelligence-Based Human Avatar Application to Assess the Mental Health of Health Care Professionals: A Validation Study. Journal of Medical Extended Reality. October 2024.
  13. Vlake J., Drop D., Van Bommel J., Riva G., Wiederhold B., Cipresso P., Rizzo A., Rothbaum B., Botella C., Hooft L., Bienvenu O., Jung C., Geerts B., Wils E., Gommers D., van Genderen M., RATE-XR Expert Group. (2024). Reporting Guidelines for the Early-Phase Clinical Evaluation of Applications Using Extended Reality: RATE-XR Qualitative Study Guideline. Journal of Medical Internet Research. November 2024.
  14. Loucks, L., Rizzo, A. and Rothbaum, B.O. (2024), Virtual Reality Exposure for Treating PTSD Due to Military Sexual Trauma. Journal of Clinical Psychology. November 2024.
  15. Bonial, C., Lukin, S.M., Abrams, M. et al. (2024). Human–robot dialogue annotation for multi-modal common ground. Lang Resources & Evaluation 59, 1525–1575.
  16. Marti, D., Budathoki, A., Ding, Y., Lucas, G., & Nelson, D. (2024). How Does Acknowledging Users’ Preferences Impact AI’s Ability to Make Conflicting Recommendations? International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–12.
  17. Hills, M., Korjian, S., Chi, G., Natale, A., Saxon, L., Ferdinand, K., Kwaku, K., Brancato, S., Baca-Motes, K., Steinhubl, S., Wessler, J., Goldberg, N., Asthana, A., Shute, K., Applebaum, J., Doran, K., Nikolovski, J., Kaul, S., Wentworth, D., … Gibson, C. (2024). Insights for direct-to-patient clinical trial recruitment strategies from the Heartline Study. Circulation, 150.
  18. Chen, M., Han, K., Yu, Z., Feng, A., Hou, Y., You, S., & Soibelman, L. (2024). An Aerial Photogrammetry Benchmark Dataset for Point Cloud Segmentation and Style Translation. Remote Sensing, 16(22), 4240.
  19. Siniukov, M., Yin, Y., Fast, E., Qi, Y., Monga, A., Kim, A., Soleymani, M. (2024). SEMPI: A Database for Understanding Social Engagement in Video-Mediated Multiparty Interaction. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY.
  20. Tran, M., Kim, Y., Su, CC., Kuo, CH., Sun, M., Soleymani, M. (2024). Ex2Eg-MAE: A Framework for Adaptation of Exocentric Video Masked Autoencoders for Egocentric Social Role Understanding. In: Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T., Varol, G. (eds) European Conference on Computer Vision – ECCV 2024.
  21. Tran, M., Chang, D., Siniukov, M., Soleymani, M. (2024). DIM: Dyadic Interaction Modeling for Social Behavior Generation. In: Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T., Varol, G. (eds) European Conference on Computer Vision on Computer Vision – ECCV 2024.
  22. Lin, S., Rizk, B., Jun, M., Artze, A., Sullivan, C., Mozgai, S., & Scott Fi. (2024). Estuary: A Framework For Building Multimodal Low-Latency Real-Time Socially Interactive Agents.
  23. Zhu, X., Su, Z., Gratch, J., Culbertson, H. (2025). How Visualizing Touch Can Transform Perceptions of Intensity, Realism, and Emotion. EuroHaptics 2024.
  24. Andalibi, N., Stark, L., McDuff, D., Picard, R., Gratch, J., and Howell, N. (2024). What should we do with Emotion AI? Towards an Agenda for the Next 30 Years. In Companion of the 2024 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’24), November 9–13, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica.
  25. Rodrigues, P.B., Becerik-Gerber, B., Soibelman, L., Lucas, G.M., Roll, S.C. (2024). Impact of selective environmental sound attenuation on operator performances, stress, attention, and task engagement in teleoperated demolition. In Automation in Construction, Volume 169. January 2025.
  26. Murray, B., Brown, R., Ma, P., Kerfoot, E., Xu, D., Feng, A., Cardoso, J., Ourselin, S., Modat, M. (2024). Lazy Resampling: Fast and information preserving preprocessing for deep learning. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Volume 257.
  27. Xu, J., Chen, M., Feng, A., Yu, Z., Yangming, S. (2024). High-Resolution 3D (OVHR3D) Data Segmentation and Annotation Framework. Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC).
  28. Siniukov, M., Xing, E., Isfahani, S.A., Soleymani, M. (2025). Towards a Generalizable Speech Marker for Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis. January 2025 (preprint).
  29. Hu Y., Liu R., Chen M., Beerel P., and Feng, A. (2025). SplatMAP: Online Dense Monocular SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting. January 2025. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 8(1), 1-18.
  30. Rizzo, A., Giosan, C., Deac, G., Zaporozhets, O., Syvak, O., Dragayeva, S., Bodner, E. & Stone, J. The Virtual Ukraine Project: Trauma Therapy in Warzones with Virtual Reality. In: Mental Health Virtual Reality:The Power of Immersive Worlds, Jessica Stone (Ed.). Wiley. January, 2025.
  31. Hale, J., Rakshit, S., Chawla, K., Brett, J., and Gratch, J. KODIS: A Multicultural Dispute Resolution Corpus. 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Albuquerque, NM 2025.
  32. West, T.N., Prinzing, M., Garton, C., Berman, C.J., Zhou, J., Hale, J., Gratch, J., Fredrickson, B. Improving Social Connection with Weak Ties and Strangers: Effects of a New Micro-Intervention on Interaction Quality and Social Behavior. Journal of Positive Psychology (in press).
  33.  Murawski, A., Ramirez-Zohfeld, V., Mell, J., Tschoe, M., Schierer, A., Olvera, C., Brett, J.,  Gratch, J.,  and Lindquist, L.A. NegotiAge: Development and pilot testing of an artificial intelligence-based family caregiver negotiation program. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024; 72(4): 1112-1121. 
  34. Gratch, J., Green, G., Picard, R., Urquhart, L., and Valstar, M. Ethics in Affective Computing (Guest Editorial), IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2024).
  35. Liu, R., Sun, D., Chen, M., Wang, Y., Feng, A. Deformable Beta Splatting. January 2025. ACM Transactions on Graphics SIGGRAPH 2025, to appear.
  36. Liu, R., Becerik-Gerber, B., Lucas, G.M., Busta, K. Impact of behavior-based virtual training on active shooter incident preparedness in healthcare facilities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 118. February 2025.
  37. Tak, A.N., Banayeenzade, A., Bolourni, A., Kian, M., Jia, R., Gratch, J. Mechanistic Interpretability of Emotion Interference in Large Language Models. February 2025.
  38. Brun, A., Liu, R., Shukla, A., Watson, F., Gratch, J. Exploring Emotion-Sensitive LLM-Based Conversational AI. February 2025.
  39. Liu, R., Becerik-Gerber, B., Pynadath, D.V., Marti, D., Lucas, G.M. Elicitation and verification of learning via experts (EVOLVE) for creating a theoretical framework for active shooter incidents. Developments in the Built Environment, Volume 21, 2025.
  40. Jalal-Kamali, A., Gurney, N., Pynadath, D. Predicting Team Performance from Communications in Simulated Search-and-Rescue. 2025.
  41. Huang, H., Chen, Y., Li, L., Cheng,, H., Braud, T., Zhao, Y., Yeung, S. SC-OmniGS: Self-Calibrating Omnidirectional Gaussian Splatting. 2025.
  42. Liu, R., Becerik-Gerber, B., Lucas, G.M. Investigating Role of Personal Factors in Shaping Responses to Active Shooter Incident using Machine Learning. 2025.
  43. Kwon, D., Hae, J., Clift, E., Shamsoddini, D., Gratch, J., Lucas, G.M. ASTRA: A Negotiation Agent with Adaptive and Strategic Reasoning through Action in Dynamic Offer Optimization. 2025.
  44. Liu, Z., Xu, J., Suen, C., Chen, M., Zou, Z.  Shi, Y. Egocentric camera-based method for detecting static hazardous objects on construction sites. Automation in Construction, Volume 172, (2025).
  45. Hale, J., Kim, P.H. & Gratch, J. “Provably fair” algorithms may perpetuate racial and gender bias: a study of salary dispute resolution. Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst 39, 20 (2025).
  46. Lin, S., Jun, M.,  Rizk, B., Shieh, K., Fisher, S., and Mozgai, S. 2025. Optimizing SIA Development: A Case Study in User-Centered Design for Estuary, a Multimodal Socially Interactive Agent Framework. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan.
  47. Correia da Fonseca, H., de Melo, C.M., Terada, K. et al. Evolution of indirect reciprocity under emotion expression. Sci Rep 15, 9151 (2025).
  48. Han, B. and Gratch, J. Salience Adjustment for Context-Based Emotion Recognition. The 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Clearwater, Florida 2025.
  49. Mozgai, S. & Rizzo, A.A. (2025). Battle Buddy: A Virtual Human Enabled Mobile App to Address Veteran Wellness and Suicide Prevention. Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Las Vegas, NV., April 3-6, 2025.
  50. Rizzo, A.A. & Mozgai, S. (2025). Suicide Safety Planning Training with a Virtual Standardized Patient: Initial Development & Testing. Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Las Vegas, NV., April 3-6, 2025.
  51. Veselovsky, V., Ribeiro, M.H., Cozzolino, P.J., Gordon, A., Rothschild, D., and West, R. 2025. Prevalence and Prevention of Large Language Model Use in Crowd Work. Commun. ACM 68, 3 (March 2025).
  52. Gurney N, Pynadath DV and Miller JH (2025) Willingness to work as a predictor of human-agent team success. Front. Comput. Sci. 7:1405436.
  53. Gurney, N., Miller, J.H., Pynadath, D.V. Exploring the choice landscape: Anchoring and framing effects on search behavior in complex choices. Journal of Choice Modelling, Volume 55, 2025.
  54. Ustun, V., Hans, S., Kumar, R., and Wang, Y. Abstracting Geo-specific Terrains to Scale Up Reinforcement Learning. I/ITSEC (2024).
  55. Cai, Y., Xiang, S., Li, Z., Chen, H., and Zhao, Y. .ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). “Bringing Diversity from Diffusion Models to Semantic-Guided Face Asset Generation.” 
  56.  Tak, A.N., Banayeeanzade, A.,, Bolourani, A., Kian, M., Jia, R., & Gratch, J. “Mechanistic Interpretability of Emotion Inference in Large Language Models” Findings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, July 27 to August 1st, 2025.
  57. Core, M. G., Nye, B., Carr, K., Li, S., Shiel, A., Auerbach, D., … Swartout, W. (2025). Usability and Preferences for a Personalized Adaptive Learning System for AI Upskilling. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, 38(1).
  58. Brixey, J. and Traum, D. 2025. Does a code-switching dialogue system help users learn conversational fluency in Choctaw?. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP), pages 8–17, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  59. Awada, M., Becerik Gerber, B., Lucas G.M., Roll S.C. The Impact of Color Correlated Temperature and Illuminance Levels of Office Lighting on Stress and Cognitive Restoration, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2025, 102628, ISSN 0272-4944.
  60. Gordon, A. (2025) Logical Abduction as a Computational Model of Narrative. 8th International Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, Geneva Switzerland, May 28-30.
  61. James Hale, HanMoe Kim, Ahyong Choi and Jonathan Gratch. AI-Mediated Dispute Resolution. In Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series Vol. 5, No. 1, May 2025, pp. 67-70.
  62. Wang, N. et al. (2025). Becoming Fei: An Educational Game for AI and Data Science Education for Novice Learners. In: Smith, B.K., Borge, M. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15808. Springer, Cham.
  63. Brun, A., Lucas, G., and Becerik-Gerber, B.. 2025. Under Pressure: Contextualizing Workplace Stress Towards User-Centered Interventions. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 546, 1–9.
  64. Klumpe S, Mitchell KC, Cox E, Katz JS, Lazarowski L, Deshpande G, Jonathan Gratch, Ewart J. de Visser, Hasan Ayaz,Xingnan Li, Adrian A. Franke, and Frank Krueger (2025) Social bonding between humans, animals, and robots: Dogs outperform AIBOs, their robotic replicas, as social companions. PLoS One 20(6): e0324312.
  65. Sushrita Rakshit, James Hale, Kushal Chawla, Jeanne M. Brett and Jonathan Gratch. Emotionally-Aware Agents for Dispute Resolution. The 13 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Canberra, Australia, October 2025.
  66. Mirella Hladký, Bin Han, Jonathan Gratch, Patrick Gebhard and Tanja Schneeberger. Steal and Smile: Impact of Emotion Regulation and Social Values on Smiles in Social Conflicts. The 13 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Canberra, Australia, October 2025.
  67. Okado, Y., D Nye, B., Aguirre, A., & Swartout, W. (2025). How Can Virtual Agents Scale Up Mentoring?: Insights from College Students’ Experiences Using the CareerFair. ai Platform at an American Hispanic-Serving Institution. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1-20.
  68. ByteMorph: Benchmarking Instruction-Guided Image Editing with Non-Rigid Motions. Di Chang, Mingdeng Cao, Yichun Sh,Bo Liu, Shengqu Ca, Shijie Zhou, Weilin Huang, Gordon Wetzstein, Mohammad Soleymani, and Peng Wang. 2025.
  69. Wang, N. et al. (2025). Virtually Human: An Exhibit for Public AI Education. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2025 Posters. HCII 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2529. Springer, Cham. 
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  71. PromptGAR: Flexible Promptive Group Activity Recognition. Zhangyu Jin, Andrew Feng, Ankur Chemburkar, and Celso M. De Melo. 2025.
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