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GFY23: ICT Achievements [2023]

Published: September 4, 2024
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We are proud to present our achievements for GFY23 [100122 – 093023] in terms of honors, awards, editorships, board memberships, conference chairs, keynotes – and publications.

GFY23/Year in Review | OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Honors & Awards [4]
  • Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships [26]
  • Board/Committee Memberships [19]
  • Conference Chairs [12]
  • Keynote & Invited Talks [43] 
  • Invention Disclosures [0]
  • Software Disclosures [4]
  • Technology Transitions / Deployed Technologies [4]
  • Patent Applications [0]
  • Patents [0]
  • Publications [67] 
  • Co-Authored with ARL/DoD [5]

Honors & Awards OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. Top Downloaded Article, The Negotiation Journal 2023, The promise and peril of automated negotiators (Gratch, Jonathan)
  2. 2023 IEEE Computer Society, Visualization and Graphics Technical Community VR Lifetime Achievement Award, Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  3. 2023 Best Technical Demonstration Award-Paper Entitled: Persuasive Technology for Suicide Prevention: A Virtual Human mHealth Application. Persuasive Computing Conference. Eindhoven, Netherlands. April 20, 2023. (Mozgai, S., Rizzo, A.A., & Hartholt, A., 2023).
  4. Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel, 2024 Public Counsel of the Year, Dava Casoni 

Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. Gale Lucas – Guest Editor – Transactions on Affective Computing 
  2. Mohammad Soleymani – Guest Editor – Transactions on Affective Computing 
  3. Gale Lucas – Co-Editor – Nature: Scientific Reports’ Collection on Human-building Interaction
  4. Gale Lucas – Editorial Board – Nature: Scientific Reports
  5. Jonathan Gratch – Associate Editor – Affective Science
  6. Jonathan Gratch – Associate Editor  – Emotion Review
  7. Frontiers in Virtual Reality: VR in Medicine – Editor in Chief – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  8. Virtual Reality Journal – Associate Editor – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  9. Journal of Medical Extended Reality – Associate Editor, – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  10. Presence: Virtual and Augmented Reality – Co-Editor in Chief – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  11. Guest Associate Editor and Topic Editor on The Impact of Virtual and Augmented Reality on Cognition, Frontiers in Cognitive Science – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  12. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association- Editorial Board Member – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  13. The Computer Games Journal – Editorial Board Member – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  14. Journal of Communication in Healthcare – Editorial Board Member – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  15. Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds – Editorial Board Member – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  16. Future Internet Journal – Editorial Board Member – – Albert “Skip” Rizzo
  17. Meida Chen – Guest Editor – Remote Sensing – Special issue: Point Cloud Processing with Machine Learning
  18. Nikolos Gurney – Topic Editor Frontiers in Robotics and AI 
  19. Andrew Gordon – Editorial Board – Journal of Interactive Narrative
  20. Kallirroi Georgila – Associate Editor – Dialogue and Discourse journal
  21. Ron Artstein – Advisory Board, SemDial 2023
  22. Ron Artstein – Program Committee, Sigdial 2023
  23. Ron Artstein – Program Committee, RO-MAN 2023
  24. Ron Artstein – Program Committee, ACL 2023
  25. Ron Artstein – Program Committee, IWSDS 2023
  26. David Traum – Associate Editor, Dialogue and Discourse Journal

Board/Committee Memberships OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. Jonathan Gratch, Publication Committee Member, Society for Affective Science
  2. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Board Member, Soldier Strong Foundation, 2023.
  3. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Program Committee, VR Days Europe, 2023.
  4. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Program Committee, The International Conference on Disability and Virtual Reality, 2024.
  5. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Program Committee, Virtual Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, 2023-2024.
  6. Dava Casoni, Defense Trade Advisory Group Appointee, 2012-2024
  7. Andrew Gordon, Advisory Board Member, Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives, 2023
  8. Andrew Gordon, Program Committee, International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, 2023
  9. Arno Hartholt, Program Committee, Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2023
  10. Arno Hartholt, Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2023
  11. Volkan Ustun, Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2023
  12. Volkan Ustun, Program Committee, 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
  13. David V. Pynadath, Senior Program Committee, The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
  14. David V. Pynadath, Senior Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2024
  15. David V. Pynadath, Program Committee, 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
  16. David V. Pynadath, Program Committee, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2023
  17. David V. Pynadath, Program Committee, 21th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2023
  18. David Traum, Advisory board, Young researcher’s roundtable on spoken dialogue systems
  19. David Traum, Senior Steering Committee, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems

Conference Chairs OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. Gale Lucas – Co-organizer – Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) 2024
  2. Gale Lucas – Co-organizer – Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) 2023
  3. Gale Lucas – Associate Chair – International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2024
  4. Gale Lucas – Program Chair – International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2024
  5. Gale Lucas – Program Chair – International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2023
  6. Jonathan Gratch – Area Chair – AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023
  7. Meida Chen – Co-organizer – 3rd International Workshop on Urban-Scale Point Clouds Understanding in ICCV2023
  8. Arno Hartholt – Workshop Chair – International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2023
  9. Kallirroi Georgila – Program Chair – International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2023
  10. Kallirroi Georgila – Area Chair – Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023
  11. David Traum – Conference Chair – IWSDS 2023
  12. David Traum – Area Chair – ACL 2023

Keynote & Invited Talks OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. Jonathan Gratch – Keynote – 5th Workshop on Modeling Socio-Emotional and Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data In the Wild, 2023
  2. Jonathan Gratch – Invited Speaker – Invited Speaker, Behavioral Studies Colloquium. ETH Zurich
  3. Mozgai, S., Rizzo, A.A., & Hartholt, A. (2023). Human-Centered Design for a Virtual Human led mHealth Intervention for Suicide Prevention. Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design. Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 27-29, 2023.
  4. Rizzo, A.A., Chen, J.Z., Wang, J., Ma, A., Chang, C-Y, & Turnbull, J. (2023). The Virtual Classroom for Attention Process Assessment in Children with ADHD and Beyond. Keynote at Yale’s Inaugural Virtual Reality and Pediatrics Healthcare Symposium. New Haven, CT. September 20, 2023.
  5. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality and the Metaverse: A Brief Review of the Future. Keynote at the 2023 UK Royal Society of Medicine Social Care Conference. London, UK. Sept 13, 2023.
  6. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). The Evolution of Virtual Human Agents in Clinical Healthcare for Veteran Healthcare. Keynote at the VA Immersive Tech Summit. August 21-24, 2023. 
  7. Rizzo, A.A. Chen, J.Z., Wang, J., Ma, A., Chang, C-Y, & Turnbull, J. (2023). The Virtual Classroom for Attention Process Assessment in Children with ADHD and Beyond. The Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Washington DC. August 3-5, 2023.
  8. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Virtual Reality/Metaverse Applications for Addressing PTSD: From Combat to Cops to COVID and Beyond! Invited Workshop Lecture at The Positive Technology: Possible Synergies between Emerging Technologies and Positive Psychology, Hong Kong, China, June 30, 2023.
  9. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Invited Keynote Lecture at The Positive Technology: Possible Synergies between Emerging Technologies and Positive Psychology, Hong Kong, China, June 30, 2023.
  10. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Invited Lecture Series at the National Institute of Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic. June 3-11, 2023. 
  11. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). The Evolution of Virtual Human Agents in Clinical Healthcare Applications. Invited Lecture Series at the National Institute of Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic. June 3-11, 2023. 
  12. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Keynote on Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future of Military Healthcare. MOVES Open House, Monterery, CA. May 25, 2023
  13. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. American Psychiatric Association. San Francisco, CA. May 22, 2023. 
  14. Norr, A. M., Rizzo, A. A., June, J. D., Reisinger, H. S., Reger, M. A., Talbot, T., & Reger, G. M. (2023, May). VSP for Suicide Safety Planning Training: Initial Development and Testing. In I. I. Galynker (Chair) Virtual Reality in Suicide Prevention: A New Frontier in Teaching and Training. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA May 21, 2023.
  15. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Virtual Reality in Suicide Prevention: A New Frontier in Teaching and Training. American Psychiatric Association. San Francisco, CA. May 21, 2023.
  16. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Grand Rounds at Summa Healthcare. Akron Ohio. April 27, 2023.
  17. Mozgai, S., Rizzo, A.A., & Hartholt, A. (2023). Persuasive Technology for Suicide Prevention: A Virtual Human mHealth Application. Persuasive Computing Conference. Eindhoven, The Netherlands. April 20, 2023. (Best Demo Award).
  18. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Invited Discussant: Evidence-Based Practice via Virtual Reality: Using Immersive Technology to Increase Access and Engagement. Anxiety and Depression Assoc. of America. Washington DC. April 15, 2023.
  19. Rothbaum, B.O., Difede, J., Rizzo, A.A., Wyka, K., Spielman, L., Reist, C., Roy, M., Jovanovic, T., Norrholm, S., Cukor, J., Olden, M., Glatt, C., & Lee, F. (2023). Treating Anxiety Disorders With Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy. Anxiety and Depression Assoc. of America. Washington DC. April 15, 2023.
  20. Rizzo, A.A., Mozgai, S., Fast, E., Hartholt, A. (2023). Virtual Humans in Clinician Training for Work with Suicidal Patients: The Present and the Roadmap for the Future. Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Washington DC. April 14, 2023.
  21. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Grand Rounds: USC Keck School of Medicine, Dept. of Anesthesia. Los Angeles, CA. April 7, 2023.
  22. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Virtual Reality and Barriers to Care: Opportunities and Challenges. vMed23: Where Medicine Meets the Metaverse. Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA. March 30-31, 2023.
  23. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Virtual Reality and Barriers to Care: Opportunities and Challenges. Anticipating the Metaverse: The Future of Mixed Reality Conference. Los Angeles, CA. March 24, 2023.
  24. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality Applications for Mental Health and Rehabilitation. IEEE VR2023 2nd XR Health workshop – XR Technologies for Healthcare and Wellbeing. Shanghai, China. March 24, 2023.
  25. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. The Game Developers Conference (GDC). San Francisco, CA. March 20-21, 2023.
  26. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Panelist – VR in Psychedelic Therapy- A Friend or a Foe? South by Southwest. Austin, Texas, March 10, 2023.
  27. Rizzo, A.A., Chen, J.Z., Wang, J., Ma, A., Chang, C-Y, & Turnbull, J. (2023). Advances in Virtual Reality and New Technologies for Childhood Health Conditions. 7th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium. Philadelphia, PA. March 3-5, 2023.
  28. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Virtual Reality and Barriers to Care: Opportunities and Challenges. Annual Conference of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics. Los Angeles, CA. February 16, 2023.
  29. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Grand Rounds, Los Angeles, CA. February 7, 2023.
  30. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Virtual Reality Goes to War: Applications for the prevention, assessment and treatment of PTSD. USARMY DEVCOM DEVCOM Soldier Center. Natick, MA. January 12, 2023.
  31. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Virtual Reality Metaverse Applications for Addressing PTSD: From Combat to Cops to COVID and Beyond! University of Lisbon, Portugal. January 11, 2023.
  32. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Indiana University CNS Research Showcase. Bloomington, IN. January 9, 2023.
  33. Swartout, W. (2023) -Keynote- Using AI to Support Training and Education, Irresistible 2023 Conference, hosted by Josh Bersin Company and USC Marshall Executive Education program
  34. Swartout, W. (2023) Panelist “Next Generation AI: Reinventing Productivity & Engagement” panel at Irresistible 2023 Conference hosted by the Josh Bersin Company and the USC Marshall Executive Education program.
  35. Minh Tran, Yelin Kim, Che-Chun Su, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Mohammad Soleymani, SAAML: A Framework for Semi-supervised Affective Adaptation via Metric Learning, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2023.
  36. Tamim Ahmed, Thanassis Rikakis, Aisling Kelliher, and Mohammad Soleymani. 2023. ASAR Dataset and Computational Model for Affective State Recognition During ARAT Assessment for Upper Extremity Stroke Survivors. In Companion Publication of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 11–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610661.3617154
  37. Leili Tavabi, Trang Tran, Brian Borsari, Joannalyn Delacruz, Joshua Woolley, Stefan Scherer, Mohammad Soleymani. Therapist Empathy Assessment in Motivational Interviews, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2023, IEEE 
  38. Minh Tran, Yufeng Yin, Mohammad Soleymani, Personalized Adaptation with Pre-trained Speech Encoders for Continuous Emotion Recognition, INTERSPEECH, 2023.
  39. Minh Tran, Mohammad Soleymani, Privacy-preserving representation learning for speech understanding, INTERSPEECH 2023.
  40. Yufeng Yin, Jiashu Xu, Tianxin Zu, Mohammad Soleymani, X-Norm: Exchanging Normalization Parameters for Bimodal Fusion, ACM Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2022.
  41. Larry Zhang, Jacek Kolacz, Albert Rizzo, Stefan Scherer and Mohammad Soleymani, Speech Behavioral Markers Align on Symptom Factors in Psychological Distress, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2022 
  42. David Traum, “Towards A More Diverse Dialogue Ecosystem”, Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Prague, CZ, September 2023.
  43. David Traum, “Towards A More Diverse Dialogue Ecosystem”, IVA Conference Doctoral Consortium, Wurzburg, Germany, September 2023.

Invention Disclosures OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

N/A

Software Disclosures OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. 2024-022 – Battle Buddy – August 2023 – USC – Department of Veterans Affairs
  2. Battle Buddy licensing process to Soldier Strong commenced in 2023 and will be finalized in 2024.
  3. RIDE (Rapid Integration & Development Environment); released 3 versions in 2023
  4. VITA Second Chance, deployed at You’re With Us foundation

Technology Transitions / Deployed Technologies OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. BRAVEMIND Vers. 3 is now at 40 clinical and research sites
  2. BRAVEMIND Ukraine/Israel has USC approved code licenses with the International Institute for Post Graduate Education, Kyiv and at Ben Gurion University in Israel.
  3. Battle Buddy licensing process to Soldier Strong commenced in 2023 and will be finalized in April 2024.
  4. RIDE (Rapid Integration & Development Environment); released 3 versions in FY23

Patent Applications OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

N/A

Patents OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

N/A

Publications OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. Awada, M., Becerik-Gerber, B., Lucas, G. M., & Roll, S. C. – Predicting office workers’ productivity: A machine learning approach integrating physiological, behavioral, and psychological indicators – Sensors – 2023
  2. Chawla, K., Wu, I., Rong, Y., Lucas, G. M., & Gratch, J. – Be selfish, but wisely: Investigating the impact of agent personality in mixed-motive human-agent interactions – Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing – 2023
  3. Hoegen, J., Lucas, G. M., Shore, D., Parkinson, B., & Gratch, J. – How expression and context determine second-person judgments of emotion. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction – 2023
  4. Junghaenel, D. U., Schneider, S., Lucas, G. M., Boberg, J., Weinstein, F. M., Richeimer, S. H., Stone, A. A. & Lumley, M. A. – Virtual human-delivered interviews for patients with chronic pain: Feasibility, acceptability, and a pilot randomized trial of standard medical, psychosocial, and educational interviews – Psychosomatic Medicine – 2023
  5. Liu, R., Awada, M., Becerik-Gerber, B., Lucas, G.M., & Roll, S. C. – Gender moderates the effects of ambient bergamot scent on stress restoration in offices – Journal of Environmental Psychology – 2023
  6. Liu, R., Becerik-Gerber, B., Lucas, G. M. & Busta, K. – Development of a VR training platform for active shooter incident preparedness in healthcare environments via a stakeholder-engaged process – Proceedings of Computing in Civil Engineering – 2023
  7. Liu, R., Zhu, R., Becerik-Gerber, B., & Lucas, G. M. – Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving occupants’ response and preparedness for active shooter incidents – Safety Science – 2023
  8. Rodrigues, P. B, Roll, S. C., Lucas, G. M., Becerik-Gerber, B., & Soibelman, L. – Virtual environment to study the effects of operational and environmental sound on teleoperated demolition – Proceedings of Computing in Civil Engineering – 2023
  9. Seyedrezaei, M., Awada, M., Becerik-Gerber, B., Lucas, G. M., & Roll, S. C. – Interaction effects of indoor environmental quality factors on cognitive performance and perceived comfort of young adults in open plan offices in North American Mediterranean climate – Building and Environment – 2023
  10. Tak, A. N., Becerik-Gerber, B., Soibelman, L. Lucas, G. M. – A framework for investigating the acceptance of smart home technologies: Findings for residential smart HVAC systems – Building and Environment – 2023
  11. Alaine Murawski, Vanessa Ramirez-Zohfeld, Allison Schierer, Johnathan Mell, Jonathan Gratch, Jeanne Brett, Lee A Lindquist. Transforming a Negotiation Framework to Resolve Conflicts between Older Adults and Caregivers. Geriatrics 8(2) (2023)
  12. Jonathan Gratch. The promise and peril of interactive embodied agents for studying non-verbal communication: a machine learning perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 378(1875). 2023
  13. Su Lei and Jonathan Gratch. Emotional expressivity is a reliable signal of surprise. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 14(4). 2023
  14. Jessie Hoegen, David DeVault, Jonathan Gratch. Exploring the Function of Expressions in Negotiation: the DyNego-WOZ Corpus. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 14(4). 2023.
  15. Ala Tak and Jonathan Gratch. Is GPT a Computational Model of Emotion? International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Boston, MA, September 2023
  16. Daniel Yang, Aditya Kommineni, Mohammad Alshehri, Nilamadhab Mohanty, Vedant Modi, Jonathan Gratch and Shrikanth Narayanan. Context Unlocks Emotions: Text-based Emotion Classification Dataset Auditing with Large Language Models. International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Boston, MA, September 2023
  17. Su Lei and Jonathan Gratch. Sources of Facial Expression Synchrony. International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Boston, MA, September 2023
  18. James Hale, Peter Kim and Jonathan Gratch. Risk Aversion and Demographic Factors Affect Preference Elicitation and Outcomes of a Salary Negotiation. 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sydney, Australia, August 2023 
  19. James Hale, Peter Kim and Jonathan Gratch. Fairness in Elicitation, Mediation, & Negotiation. International Workshop on Citizen-centric multiagent systems. London, UK May 2023.
  20. Goel R, Tse, T., Smith, L.J., Floren, A., Naylor, B., Williams, M.W., Salas, R. & Rizzo, A.S. (2023). Framework for Accurate Classification of Self-Reported Stress From Multi Session Functional MRI Data of Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress. Chronic Stress. 2023;7. doi:10.1177/24705470231203655 
  21. Mozgai, S., Rizzo, A. & Hartholt, A. (2023). Human-Centered Design for a Virtual Human Led mHealth Intervention for Suicide Prevention Human Systems, Engineering and Design (IHSED2023), Vol. 112, 98-106. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004118 
  22. Mozgai, S., Rizzo, A.A., & Hartholt, A. (2023). Persuasive Technology for Suicide Prevention: A Virtual Human mHealth Application. Proceedings of the 2023 Persuasive Technology Conference.
  23. Rothbaum, B., Difede, J., Rizzo, A., Wyka, K., Spielman, L., Reist, C., … & Lee, F. (2023). Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Compared to Prolonged Exposure Therapy With and Without D-Cycloserine. Biological Psychiatry, 93(9), S28-S29. 360. 
  24. Hsu, W.Y., Anguera, J., Rizzo, A., Campusano, R., Chiaravalloti, N.D., DeLuca, J. Gazzaley A., & Bove, R. (2023). A virtual reality program to assess cognitive function in multiple sclerosis: a pilot study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 88.
  25. Rizzo, A., Koenig, S. & Lange, B. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: The State of the Science. In G. G. Brown, B. Crosson, K. Y. Haaland, & T. Z. King (Eds.), APA handbook of neuropsychology: Vol. 2. Neuroscience and Neuromethods. American Psychological Association.
  26. Pynadath, D. V., Gurney, N., Kenny, S., Kumar, R., Marsella, S. C., Matuszak, H., …Ustun, V., & Wu, P. (2023, May). Effectiveness of Teamwork-Level Interventions through Decision-Theoretic Reasoning in a Minecraft Search-and-Rescue Task. In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp. 2334-2336).
  27. Wang, N., Pynadath, D. V., & Gurney, N. (2023, July). The Design of Transparency Communication for Human-Multirobot Teams. In the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 311-321). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  28. Gurney, N., Pynadath, D. V., & Wang, N. (2023, July). My actions speak louder than your words: when user behavior predicts their beliefs about agents’ attributes. In the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 232-248). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  29. Gurney, N., Miller, J. H., & Pynadath, D. V. (2023, June). The role of heuristics and biases during complex choices with an AI teammate. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 5993-6001).
  30. Pynadath, D. V., Gurney, N., Kenny, S., Kumar, R., Marsella, S. C., Matuszak, H., … Ustun, V., & Wu, P. (2023, May). Effectiveness of Teamwork-Level Interventions through Decision-Theoretic Reasoning in a Minecraft Search-and-Rescue Task. In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp. 2334-2336).
  31. Gurney, N., Pynadath, D. V., & Wang, N. (2023, April). Comparing psychometric and behavioral predictors of compliance during human-ai interactions. In the International Conference on Persuasive Technology (pp. 175-197). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  32. Wang, T., and Gordon, A. (2023) Playing Story Creation Games With Large Language Models: Experiments With GPT-3.5. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Interactive Storytelling, November 11-15, 2023, Kobe Japan.
  33. Gordon, A., and Feng, A. (2023) Searching for the Most Probable Combination of Class Labels Using Etcetera Abduction. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS-2023), March 22-24, 2023, Baltimore, MD.
  34. Okado, Y., Nye, B.D., Aguirre, A., Swartout, W. (2023). Can Virtual Agents Scale Up Mentoring?: Insights from College Students’ Experiences Using the CareerFair.ai Platform at an American Hispanic-Serving Institution. In: Wang, N., Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Matsuda, N., Santos, O.C., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. Nominated for Best Paper.  AIED 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNAI, volume 13916). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36272-9_16
  35. Alesia Gainer, Allison Aptaker, Ron Artstein, David Cobbins, Mark Core, Carla Gordon, Anton Leuski, Zongjian Li, Chirag Merchant, David Nelson, Mohammad Soleymani, & David Traum. (2023). DIVIS: Digital Interactive Victim Intake Simulator. Extended abstract in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’23).
  36. Benjamin Nye, Dillon Mee, & Mark G. Core. (2023). Generative Large Language Models for Dialog-Based Tutoring: An Early Consideration of Opportunities and Concerns. In Proceedings of the AIED Workshop on Empowering Education with LLMs – the Next-Gen Interface and Content Generation.
  37. Mozgai, S., Beland, S., Leeds, A., Winn, J.G., Kaurloto, C., Heylen, D. and Hartholt, A., 2023, January. Toward a Scoping Review of Social Intelligence in Virtual Humans. In 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) (pp. 1-6).
  38. Hartholt, A. & Mozgai, S. (2023). Creating Virtual Worlds with the Virtual Human Toolkit and the Rapid Integration & Development Environment. Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI): Vol. 69, 2023
  39. Mozgai, S., Kaurloto, C., Winn, J., Leeds, A., Heylen, D., Hartholt, A., and Scherer, S. (2023). Machine Learning for Semi-Automated Scoping Reviews. Intelligent Systems with Applications.
  40. Mozgai, S., Rizzo, A. & Hartholt A., Human-Centered Design for a Virtual Human led mHealth Intervention for Suicide Prevention. 5th International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications (IHSED 2023)
  41. Mozgai., S., Fast, E., Hartholt, A. Virtual Human Toolkit 2.0 Tutorial. At 23nd International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ‘23).
  42. Kallirroi Georgila. Considerations for Child Speech Synthesis for Dialogue Systems. In the Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children Workshop (AIAIC) – Co-located with IWSDS, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2023. 
  43. Chadalapaka, V., Ustun, V., & Liu, L. (2023, May). Leveraging Graph Networks to Model Environments in Reinforcement Learning. In The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (Vol. 36).
  44. Aris, T., Ustun, V., & Kumar, R. (2023, May). Learning to Take Cover with Navigation-Based Waypoints via Reinforcement Learning. In The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (Vol. 36).
  45. Joshi, H., & Ustun, V. (2023). Augmenting Cognitive Architectures with Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series (Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 281-285).
  46. Minh Tran, Yelin Kim, Che-Chun Su, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Mohammad Soleymani, SAAML: A Framework for Semi-supervised Affective Adaptation via Metric Learning, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2023.
  47. Tamim Ahmed, Thanassis Rikakis, Aisling Kelliher, and Mohammad Soleymani. 2023. ASAR Dataset and Computational Model for Affective State Recognition During ARAT Assessment for Upper Extremity Stroke Survivors. In Companion Publication of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 11–15.
  48. Leili Tavabi, Trang Tran, Brian Borsari, Joannalyn Delacruz, Joshua Woolley, Stefan Scherer, Mohammad Soleymani. Therapist Empathy Assessment in Motivational Interviews, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2023, IEEE. 
  49. Minh Tran, Yufeng Yin, Mohammad Soleymani, Personalized Adaptation with Pre-trained Speech Encoders for Continuous Emotion Recognition, INTERSPEECH, 2023.
  50. Minh Tran, Mohammad Soleymani, Privacy-preserving representation learning for speech understanding, INTERSPEECH 2023.
  51. Yufeng Yin, Jiashu Xu, Tianxin Zu, Mohammad Soleymani, X-Norm: Exchanging Normalization Parameters for Bimodal Fusion, ACM Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2022.
  52. Larry Zhang, Jacek Kolacz, Albert Rizzo, Stefan Scherer and Mohammad Soleymani, Speech Behavioral Markers Align on Symptom Factors in Psychological Distress, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2022 
  53. K. Chawla, R. Clever, J. Ramirez, G. M. Lucas and J. Gratch, “Towards Emotion-Aware Agents for Improved User Satisfaction and Partner Perception in Negotiation Dialogues,” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 433-444, April-June 2024
  54. Benjamin D. Nye, Yuko Okado, Aaron Shiel, Kayla Carr, Milton Rosenberg, Enora Rice, Luke Ostrander, Megan Ju, Cassandra Gutierrez, Dilan Ramirez, Daniel Auerbach, Angelica Aguirre, William Swartout, “MentorStudio: Amplifying diverse voices through rapid, self-authorable virtual mentors”, Artificial Intelligence in Education 2023 Workshop on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Education Technology Research and Development, July 2023
  55. Minh Tran, Yelin Kim, Che-Chun Su, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Mohammad Soleymani, SAAML: A Framework for Semi-supervised Affective Adaptation via Metric Learning, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2023.
  56. Tamim Ahmed, Thanassis Rikakis, Aisling Kelliher, and Mohammad Soleymani. 2023. ASAR Dataset and Computational Model for Affective State Recognition During ARAT Assessment for Upper Extremity Stroke Survivors. In Companion Publication of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 11–15.
  57. Leili Tavabi, Trang Tran, Brian Borsari, Joannalyn Delacruz, Joshua Woolley, Stefan Scherer, Mohammad Soleymani. Therapist Empathy Assessment in Motivational Interviews, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2023, IEEE
  58. Minh Tran, Yufeng Yin, Mohammad Soleymani, Personalized Adaptation with Pre-trained Speech Encoders for Continuous Emotion Recognition, INTERSPEECH, 2023
  59. Minh Tran, Mohammad Soleymani, Privacy-preserving representation learning for speech understanding, INTERSPEECH 2023.
  60. Yufeng Yin, Jiashu Xu, Tianxin Zu, Mohammad Soleymani, X-Norm: Exchanging Normalization Parameters for Bimodal Fusion, ACM Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2022.
  61. Larry Zhang, Jacek Kolacz, Albert Rizzo, Stefan Scherer and Mohammad Soleymani, Speech Behavioral Markers Align on Symptom Factors in Psychological Distress, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2022 
  62. Claire To, Setareh Nasihati Gilani, David Traum, Common Strategy Patterns of Persuasion in a Mission Critical and Time Sensitive Task, The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Semdial 2023 Marilogue), August 2023.
  63. Debaditya Pal, Anton Leuski, David Traum Comparing Statistical Models for Retrieval based Question-answering Dialogue: BERT vs Relevance Models, The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings. 36, 1 (May 2023).
  64. Setareh Nasihati Gilani, David Traum Analyzing User’s Mental State and Facial Expressions in Interaction with Different Personalities in a Critical Situation. 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2023), Barcelona, April 2023.
  65. Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, David Traum, and Satoshi Nakamura (2023). End-to-end dialogue structure parsing on multi-floor dialogue based on multi-task learning. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10.
  66. Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum Developing a spoken dialogue system for the Choctaw language The 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2023), February 2023, Los Angeles.
  67. Claire Bonial, Taylor Hudson, Lucia Donatelli, David Traum, Clare Voss, Mitchell Abrams, and Austin Blodgett, Dialogue-AMR Annotation Guidelines

Co-Authored with ARL/DoD OCT 1, 2022 – SEPT 30, 2023 

  1. Yu, Zifan, Meida Chen, Zhikang Zhang, Suya You, Raghuveer Rao, Sanjeev Agarwal, and Fengbo Ren. “TransUPR: A Transformer-based Plug-and-Play Uncertain Point Refiner for LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation.” In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5864-5869. IEEE, 2023.
  2. Aris, T., Ustun, V., & Kumar, R. (2023, May). Learning to Take Cover with Navigation-Based Waypoints via Reinforcement Learning. In The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (Vol. 36).
  3. Stephanie M. Lukin, Kimberly A. Pollard, Claire Bonial, Taylor Hudson, Ron Artstein, Clare Voss, and David Traum. Navigating to success in multi-modal human-robot collaboration: analysis and corpus release. 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea, August 2023. Co-authored with ARL.
  4. Stephanie M Lukin, Kimberly A Pollard, Claire Bonial, Taylor Hudson, Ron Artstein, Clare Voss, David Traum, Navigating to Success in Multi-Modal Human-Robot Collaboration: Analysis and Corpus Release, 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), August 2023.
  5. Claire Bonial, Taylor Hudson, Lucia Donatelli, David Traum, Clare Voss, Mitchell Abrams, and Austin Blodgett, Dialogue-AMR Annotation Guidelines

Postscript: with deepest thanks to Mana Marashi for compiling this extensive report.

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