ICT's Director of Technology, Bill Swartout, talks with The Chopra Foundation about the relationships between virtual human technology and health...
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AI and Marshmallows: Training human-AI collaboration
Using a simulated campfire scenario, researchers conclude cooperative strategies of negotiation to be more effective than selfish strategies and...
Exploring New Technology in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatments
Dr. Skip Rizzo of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies discusses PTSD, the technology behind "Prolonged Exposure Therapy" and the potential...
Improving Human-Computer Conversations From Camp Site Negotiations
Researchers from ICT and ISI devise CaSiNo, a scenario-based dataset for teaching negotiation. Keep reading, from USC Viterbi.
Virtual Reality Therapy Plunges Patients Back Into Trauma. Here Is Why Some Swear by It
An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis. Keep reading in the New York Times.
Army Catches RIDE to Extended Reality Future
Researchers at the Institute for Creative Technologies built the Rapid Integration and Development Environment, a test bed for evaluating modeling...
VR improving treatment options for those with PTSD
The Veterans Administration estimates 17 U.S. veterans die by suicide each day on average. Behind many of those deaths is PTSD. Now, there's growing...
CaSiNo: A collection of campsite-based dialogs to develop automatic negotiation systems
Artificial agents that negotiate with humans could have a broad range of valuable applications, for instance, helping humans to improve their...
The Connected and Empowered Patient
USC Center for Body Computing's Dr. Leslie Saxon participated in The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival. On a panel with leaders in...