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GFY24: ICT Achievements [2024]

Published: September 4, 2024
Category: News
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We are proud to present our achievements for GFY24 [100123 – 093024] in terms of honors, awards, editorships, board memberships, conference chairs, keynotes – and publications.

GFY24/Year in Review | OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Honors & Awards [3]
  • Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships [33]
  • Board/Committee Memberships [38]
  • Conference Chairs [18]
  • Keynote & Invited Talks [56]
  • Disclosures [0]
  • Invention Disclosures [3]
  • Software Disclosures [0]
  • Technology Transitions / Deployed Technologies [9]
  • Patent Applications [2]
  • Patents [1]
  • Publications [98]
  • Co-Authored with ARL/DoD [12]

Honors & Awards OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – 2023 IEEE Computer Society, Visualization and Graphics Technical Community VR Lifetime Achievement Award
  2. Kallirroi Georgila and David Traum – Best Paper Nomination: Evaluation of Off-the-shelf Whisper Models for Speech Recognition Across Diverse Dialogue Domains. In Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS), Sapporo, Japan, 2024
  3. Dava Casoni – 2024 Public Counsel of the Year, The Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel

Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Gale Lucas – Guest Editor – Transactions on Affective Computing 
  2. Gale Lucas – Co-Editor – Nature: Scientific Reports’ Collection on Human-building Interaction
  3. Gale Lucas – Editorial Board – Nature: Scientific Reports
  4. Mohammad Soleymani – Guest Editor – IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  5. Benjamin Nye – Associate Editor – International Journal of AI in Education (IJAIED)
  6. Nikolos Gurney – Editor – Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  7. Jonathan Gratch – Guest Editor – Cognition and Emotion issue on Artificial Intelligence and Emotion Theories (2024)
  8. Jonathan Gratch – Associate Editor – Affective Science (2019 – 2024)
  9. Jonathan Gratch – Associate Editor – Emotion Review (2007 – 2024)
  10. Meida Chen – Guest Editor – Remote Sensing – Special issue: Point Cloud Processing with Machine Learning
  11. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Editor in Chief – Frontiers in Virtual Reality: VR in Medicine
  12. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Associate Editor – Virtual Reality Journal
  13. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Associate Editor – Journal of Medical Extended Reality
  14. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Co-Editor in Chief – Presence: Virtual and Augmented Reality
  15. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Guest Associate Editor and Topic Editor – The Impact of Virtual and Augmented Reality on Cognition, Frontiers in Cognitive Science
  16. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Editorial Board Member – Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association
  17. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Editorial Board Member – The Computer Games Journal
  18. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Editorial Board Member – Journal of Communication in Healthcare
  19. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Editorial Board Member – Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
  20. Albert “Skip” Rizzo – Editorial Board Member – Future Internet Journal
  21. Leslie Saxon – Annals of Internal Medicine (2001 – Present)
  22. Leslie Saxon – New England Journal of Medicine (2020 – Present)
  23. Leslie Saxon – Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine (2018 – Present)
  24. Leslie Saxon – Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology (2017 – Present)
  25. Ron Artstein – Editorial Board – Language Resources and Evaluation Journal
  26. Kallirroi Georgila – Action Editor – Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics Journal
  27. Kallirroi Georgila – Senior Action Editor – ACL Rolling Review
  28. Andrew Gordon – Editorial Board Member – Journal of Interactive Narrative Research, ETC Press
  29. Ron Artstein – Editorial Board – Language Resources and Evaluation Journal
  30. Ning Wang – Associate Editor – IJAIED
  31. Ning Wang – Associate Editor – Frontier Theory of Mind in Robots and Intelligent Systems
  32. David Traum – Associate Editor – Dialogue and Discourse Journal
  33. Yajie Zhao – Editor of Frontier Virtual Reality “Editorial: Creating Lifelike Digital Humans”

Board/Committee Memberships OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Program Committee, The International Conference on Disability and Virtual Reality, 2024.
  2. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Program Committee, Virtual Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, 2023-2024.
  3. Dava Casoni, Defense Trade Advisory Group Appointee, 2012-2024
  4. David V. Pynadath, Senior Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2024
  5. Mohammad Soleymani, Trustee and member of the management board, Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC)
  6. Andrew Wei-Wen Feng, Program Committee The 19th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2024)
  7. Andrew Wei-Wen Feng, Program Committee ICMI GENEA Workshop 2024
  8. Jonathan Gratch, Publication Committee Member, Society for Affective Sciences 2018 – 2024
  9. Jonathan Gratch, Senior Program Committee – International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2024)
  10. Leslie Saxon, Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group 2020 – Present
  11. Leslie Saxon, CANet International Expert Advisory Committee (IEAC), 2021 – Present
  12. Leslie Saxon, Advisory Board – DFA Digital Health Center for Excellence, 2020 – Present
  13. Leslie Saxon, NFLPA Mackey-White NFLPA Health & Safety Committee, 2020 – Present
  14. Leslie Saxon, University of Southern California, Distinguished Leaders Program, Expert Advisor, 2023 – Present
  15. Leslie Saxon, University of Southern California, Keck Medicine of USC Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Committee, Los Angeles, CA 2022 – Present
  16. Leslie Saxon, University of Southern California, Keck Medicine of USC Search Committee for KSOM Associate Dean for Clinical Research, 2024-Present
  17. Leslie Saxon, University of Southern California, Keck Medicine of USC, Digital Health Curriculum Working Group, Los Angeles, CA, 2021-Present. 
  18. Leslie Saxon, University of Southern California, Virtual Care Committee, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, 2017-Present
  19. Leslie Saxon, University of Southern California, Research, Teaching, Practitioner, & Clinical Promotions Committee, Los Angeles, CA, 2017-Present
  20. Ron Artstein, Advisory Board, SemDial 2024
  21. Ron Artstein, Program Committee, SIGDIAL 2024
  22. Ron Artstein, Program Committee, SemDial 2024
  23. Ron Artstein, Program Committee, LREC-COLING 2024
  24. Ron Artstein, Program Committee, IWSDS 2024
  25. Kallirroi Georgila, Program Committee Member, Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) 2024
  26. Kallirroi Georgila, Program Committee Member, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) 2024
  27. Kallirroi Georgila, Senior Program Committee Member, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2024
  28. Kallirroi Georgila, Program Committee Member, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2024
  29. Kallirroi Georgila, Program Committee Member, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) – Industry Track 2024
  30. Kallirroi Georgila, Program Committee Member, Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial) 2024
  31.  Kallirroi Georgila, Advisory Committee Member, Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) 2024
  32. Kallirroi Georgila, Program Committee Member, RL-LLMs, AAAI Workshop on Synergy of Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models 2024
  33. Kallirroi Georgila, Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024
  34. Andrew Gordon, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS): 2024, Barranquilla, Colombia
  35. Andrew Gordon, Advisory Board Member, Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives
  36. Ning Wang, Executive Committee, IAIED
  37. David Traum, Advisory board: Young researcher’s roundtable on spoken dialogue systems
  38. David Traum, Senior Steering Committee, International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems

Conference Chairs OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Gale Lucas – Co-organizer – Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) 2024
  2. Gale Lucas – Associate Chair – International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2024
  3. Gale Lucas – Program Chair – International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2024
  4. Mohammad Soleymani – General Chair: ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
  5. Jonathan Gratch – ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction – Advisory Chair, 2024
  6. Leslie Saxon – Co-Chair, Abbot Medical Device Cybersecurity Council, 2022 – Present
  7. Leslie Saxon – International Expert, Advisory Committee for the Canadian Arrhythmia Research Network, 2022 – Present
  8. Leslie Saxon – NFLPA Mackey-White Health & Safety Committee, 2022 – Present
  9. Leslie Saxon – Executive Committee, The Heartline Study, Johnson & Johnson, 2019 – Present
  10. Sharon Mozgai – Co-Organizer, MSA 2024: The first International Workshop on Multimodal Social Agents & Robots for Mental Health and Wellbeing – A new world with foundation models at ACII 2024
  11. Kallirroi Georgila; Senior Area Chair, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) 2025
  12. Kallirroi Georgila; Senior Area Chair, Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2024
  13. Kallirroi Georgila; Area Chair, Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING) 2024
  14. Kallirroi Georgila; Area Chair, Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2024
  15. Ning Wang – Awards Chair, AIED 2024
  16. David Traum – Senior Area Chair, EACL 2024
  17. David Traum – Area Chair – LREC-COLING 2024
  18. Yajie Zhao – Co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality (IEEE AIxVR) 2024.

Keynote & Invited Talks OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Dr. Randall Hill, Keynote, IEEE AIxVR
  2. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Trauma Focused Interventions during War: Role of Advanced technologies. Invited presentation at The Helmsley Pediatric & Adolescent Rehabilitation Research Center, ALYN Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. December 4, 2023.
  3. Rizzo, A.A. Giosan, C., Zaporozhets, O., Syvak, O. & Dragayeva, S. (2023). The Role of Virtual Reality for Addressing the Impact of Trauma in Ukraine. Immersive Tech Week. Rotterdam, Netherlands. November 30, 2023.
  4. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Panelist on: State of the VR Healthcare Market & Guidelines for Integrating VR in a Hospital Environment. Immersive Tech Week. Rotterdam, Netherlands. November 30, 2023.
  5. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Ethical Considerations When Providing “Therapy” Without a Therapist. 57th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. Seattle, Washington, November 17, 2023.
  6. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Invited talk at the Groningen VR Mental Health Conference. Groningen, Netherlands. November 9, 2023.
  7. Rizzo, A.A. Giosan, C., Zaporozhets, O., Syvak, O. & Stone, J. (2023). The Role of Virtual Reality and the Metaverse for Addressing the Impact of Trauma in Ukrainian Civilians and Warfighters. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 39th Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA, November 4, 2023.
  8. Rizzo, A.A. (2023) Panelist on: The Future of Medicine: How Hollywood Can Help Save Lives.  The Infinity Festival, Los Angeles, CA., November 3, 2023. 
  9. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Panelist on Using Virtual Spaces to Deliver Peer-Based Support for Survivors of Trauma. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 39th Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA, November 1, 2023.
  10. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Keynote at the Intelligent Health – Future Rehabilitation Conference. Oslo, Norway, October 19, 2023.
  11. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). 7 Ways that Virtual Reality Will Shape the Future of Mental Health. Grand Rounds at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital. Oslo, Norway, October 18, 2023.
  12. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Ruhr University Bochum VR Summit 2023. Ruhr, Germany. October 4, 2023. 
  13. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Keynote at the St Luke’s Neuroscience Conference. Boise, Idaho, October 6, 2023.
  14. Soleymani, M. (2023). Speech Analysis for Intent and Session Quality Assessment in Motivational Interviews, Harvard-MIT Speech and Language Biomarkers Interest Group
  15. Jonathan Gratch – Keynote Speaker, ACM Conversational User Interface Conference, Luxembourg, July 2024
  16. Jonathan Gratch – Invited Speaker, Affective Computing Workshop at the Meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Belfast, UK, July 2024
  17. Jonathan Gratch – Invited Speaker, Virtue and Affect for Social Robots, Fullerton, CA, April 2024
  18. Jonathan Gratch – Keynote Speaker, 5th Workshop on Modeling Socio-Emotional and Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data in the Wild. Paris, France, October 2023
  19. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Binghamton University—Invited Lisman Lecture, Binghamton University,  Binghamton, NY. September 20, 2024. 
  20. Mozgai, S. & Rizzo, A. (2024). Virtual Humans in Mobile Health (mHealth) Applications: Designing for increased user-engagement and adherence. The 14thInternational Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality, and Associated Technologies. Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-5, 2024,
  21. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). The Virtual Ukraine Project: Trauma Therapy in Warzones with Virtual Reality. The 14thInternational Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality, and Associated Technologies. Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-5, 2024, 
  22. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Keynote at: The Nordic Neuropsychological Conference 2024: Brain Health Interventions and Technology. Trondheim, Norway. August 29, 2024.
  23. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). More Real Than Ever: VR and Virtual Humans for Mental Health and Rehabilitation. The Nordic Neuropsychological Conference: Brain Health Interventions and Technology. Trondheim, Norway. August 29, 2024.
  24. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Virtual Reality and the Metaverse Applications For Addressing PTSD in War-Exposed Populations: Ukrainian Civilians and Warfighters. American Psychological Association Convention session on: Virtual Reality and Virtual Standardized Patients for Training/Treatment of those Affected by War.  Seattle, WA, August 8-10, 2024.
  25. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Battle Buddy: A Virtual Human Enabled Mobile App to Address Veteran Wellness and Suicide Prevention. Invited talk at: VA Community of Practice. June 26, 2024.
  26. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Panel Member/talk: Professional Development of the Mental Healthcare VR Clinician, AWE Convention. Long Beach CA. June 18, 2024. 
  27. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Virtual Reality Goes to War: VR Exposure Therapy for the Treatment of PTSD in Veterans. Keynote at: VA Immersive Summit. Washington DC. June 11, 2024.
  28. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Panelist on PESI Autism Experts Q&A., Online, June 6, 2024.  
  29. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Virtual Reality in the Trenches: Hands-On Experience with Clinical VR Systems for Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, Pain Management and ADHD Assessment. American Psychiatric Association, NYC, NY. May 6, 2024.
  30. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Trials and Tribulations: Best Practices Designing and Conducting MXR Clinical Trials. Cedars Sinai VMed Conference, Los Angeles, CA. March 28, 2024.
  31. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Clinical VR: What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been! SpatialSC Seminar, Los Angeles, CA. March 20, 2024.
  32. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). The Role of Virtual Reality and the Metaverse For Addressing the Impact of Trauma in Ukrainian Civilians and Warfighters. 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics-Military Medicine and Veterans Health Track. Los Angeles, CA. March 14, 2023.
  33. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Digital Health and Informatics Med Tech Program. USC Mann School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, CA., March 4, 2024.
  34. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). How Processes in Clinical Virtual Reality Can Inform Design in Theatre. New Media Lab In Performance, Playwrights Horizons Theater, NYC, NY. February 26, 2024.
  35. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Battle Buddy: A Virtual Human Enabled Mobile App to Address Veteran Wellness and Suicide Prevention. ViVE Conference: Innovating for Impact: VA’s Role in Suicide Prevention, Los Angeles, Ca. February 25, 2024.
  36. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). The Role of Virtual Reality and the Metaverse For Addressing the Impact of Trauma in Ukrainian Civilians and Warfighters. Online Ukraine Health Seminar, February 23, 2024. 
  37. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. USC, Iovine Center, Los Angeles, CA., February 12, 2024.
  38. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Online Ukraine Health Seminar, February 9, 2024. 
  39. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). The Future of Clinical Virtual Reality. Partners in Neuroscience, Nova – School of Business & Economics, Online Lisbon, Portugal, January 27, 2024.
  40. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Mental Health AI and Virtual Reality in Therapeutic Settings. Leading Edge Seminars Inc., Online, January 26, 2024.
  41. Rizzo, A.A. (2024). Clinical Virtual Reality: Seven Ways that Virtual Reality Will Change the World of Mental Healthcare. Portugal Advanced Health Education Training Seminar. Online Portugal, Jan. 24, 2024.
  42. Rizzo, A.A. (2023). Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future. Ruhr University Buchum VR Summit 2023. Ruhr, Germany. October 4, 2023. 
  43. 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.
  44. Media Chen, “Large-Scale 3D Terrain Reconstruction Using 3D Gaussian Splatting for Visualization and Simulation”,  ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium (2024)
  45. Leslie Saxon, Consumer Electronics Show 2024, “Hospital at Home” Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2024
  46. Leslie Saxon, AASLD The Liver Meeting “Digitized Medicine” Keynote Address, 2023 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, November 11, 2023
  47. Leslie Saxon, American College of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Team Annual Symposium, “Contextual Heath: Medical Grade Diagnostics on Consumer Wearables”, Invited Speaker, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, August 19, 2023
  48. Bill Swartout, “Embracing Change & Engaging with AI” Keynote 12th World Bank-Annenberg Summer Institute, held at Annenberg School of Communication, June, 2024
  49. Bill Swartout, “Embracing Change: A Snapshot of USC’s Engagement with AI” Keynote Town and Gown of USC, March 5th, 2024
  50. Sharon Mozgai, Mission Daybreak Panel, at the 2024 VA Immersive Summit
  51. Benjamin Nye, Panelist for panel, “Introducing the AI Center of Research for Excellence in Education (AIRCOEE), 2024 Army University Learning Symposium
  52. Benjamin Nye, Invited Speaker, “Designing the Army Writing Enhancement Tool (AWE): Generative AI to Promote Writing Skills”, 2024 Army University Learning Symposium
  53. David Traum, “What are (non-) Conversational Qualities in Dyadic & Group Interaction?” Shonan 2023 Workshop on Conversational Qualities in Dyadic and Group Interactions, Shonan, Japan, October 2023.
  54. David Traum, “Safety and Dialogue Systems: Personal Research Experiences”, USC Retreat on AI and Engineering Safety, April 12, 2024
  55. David Traum, New Dimensions in Testimony, Natick Soldier Systems Center  Holocaust Days of Remembrance Event, May 1, 2024
  56. Yajie Zhao, Speaker and Panelist at Workshop: XR and AI – Opportunities and Challenges Siggraph 2023.

Invention Disclosures OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Yajie Zhao – End-to-End Optimization of Diffractive Optics
  2. Yajie Zhao – AI-based Face Replacement
  3. Yajie Zhao – Geometry-aware Feature Matcher for Reconstruction Enhancement

Software Disclosures OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Battle Buddy licensing process to Soldier Strong commenced in 2023 and is not yet finalized.

Technology Transitions / Deployed Technologies OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  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 end 2024.
  4. OVHR3D UI code base. Release 2 versions in 2024
  5. VITA Second Chance, deployed at You’re With Us foundation
  6. RIDE (Rapid Integration & Development Environment); released under Government Purpose Rights (GPR)
  7. D2SA and DIVIS systems, deployed and used at Ft. Leavenworth SHARP Academy
  8. Thoughtleader AI, used by ParaPro (pharmaceutical company)
  9. Jerry Jones system (Blue Star Entertainment)

Patent Applications OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Yajie Zhao – Topologically Consistent Multi-View Face Inference Using Volumetric Sampling
  2. Yajie Zhao – End-to-End Face Asset Creation From a Single Image  

Patents OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Yajie Zhao – US 12,002,150 B2- “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSICALLY-BASED NEURAL FACE SHADER VIA VOLUMETRIC LIGHTMAPS”

Publications OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Awada, M., Becerik Gerber, B., Lucas, G. M., & Roll, S. C. – Stress appraisal in the workplace and its associations with productivity and mood: Insights from a multimodal machine learning analysis – Plos one – 2024
  2. Eleanor Lin, James Hale and Jonathan Gratch. Toward a Better Understanding of the Emotional Dynamics of Negotiation with Large Language Models. 8th National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems. Washington, DC, December 2023
  3. 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.
  4. Hartholt, A., Leeds, A., Fast, E., Sookiassian, E., Kim, K., Beland, S., Kulkarni, P., Mozgai, S. (2024). Multidisciplinary Research & Development of Multi-Agents and Virtual Humans Leveraging Integrated Middleware Platforms. AHFE (2024) International Conference.
  5. Mozgai., S., Fast, E., Hartholt, A. Virtual Human Toolkit 2.0 Tutorial. At 23nd International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ‘23).
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Zhang, H., Chang, D., Li, F., Soleymani, M., and Ahuja, N., “MagicPose4D: Crafting Articulated Models with Appearance and Motion Control”, 2024.
  17. Tran, M., Chang, D., Siniukov, M., and Soleymani, M., “Dyadic Interaction Modeling for Social Behavior Generation”, 2024.
  18. Chang, D., Shi, Y., Gao, Q., Xu, H., Fu, J., Song, G., … & Soleymani, M. (2024). MagicPose: Realistic Human Poses and Facial Expressions Retargeting with  Identity-aware Diffusion. In Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML); to appear.
  19. Bohy, B., Tran, M.,  El Haddad, K., Dutoit, K., Soleymani M.. Social-MAE: A Transformer-Based Multimodal Autoencoder for Face and Voice, IEEE Face & Gesture Recognition (FG) 2024, Istanbul, Turkey.
  20. Shi, Z., O’Connell, A., Li, Z., Liu, S., Ayissi, J., Hoffman, G., Soleymani, M., & Matarić, M. J. (2024). Build Your Own Robot Friend: An Open-Source Learning Module for Accessible and Engaging AI Education. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  21. Chang, D., Yin, Y., Li, Z., Tran, M., & Soleymani, M. (2024). LibreFace: An Open-Source Toolkit for Deep Facial Expression Analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (pp. 8205-8215).
  22. Yin, Y., Chang, D., Song, G., Sang, S., Zhi, T., Liu, J., … & Soleymani, M. (2024). FG-Net: Facial Action Unit Detection with Generalizable Pyramidal Features. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (pp. 6099-6108).
  23. Lu, L., “Leveraging Synthetic Data for Generalizable and Fair Facial Action Unit Detection”, 2024.
  24. M. Soleymani, S. Kumano, E. M. Provost, N. Bianchi-Berthouze, A. Sano and K. Suzuki, “Guest Editorial Best of ACII 2021,” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 376-379, April-June 2024.
  25. Tran, T., Yin, Y., Tavabi, L., Delacruz, J., Borsari, B., Woolley, J. D., … & Soleymani, M. (2023, October). Multimodal Analysis and Assessment of Therapist Empathy in Motivational Interviews. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 406-415).
  26. Rong Liu, Rui Xu, Yue Hu, Meida Chen, and Andrew Feng, AtomicGS: Atomizing Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Radiance Field,, In Submission.
  27. Andrew S. Gordon and Andrew Feng, Combining the Predictions of Out-of-Domain Classifiers Using Etcetera Abduction, 58th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) 2024, 1-6.
  28. Ankur Chemburkar, Shuhong Lu, and Andrew Feng, MoDDM: Text-to-Motion Synthesis using Discrete Diffusion Model, The 34th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2023, 624-628.
  29. Chemburkar, Ankur, Shuhong Lu, and Andrew Feng. “Discrete Diffusion for Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis.” In Companion Publication of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, pp. 186-192. 2023.
  30. Shuhong Lu, Youngwoo Yoon, and Andrew Feng, Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis using Discrete Gesture Token Learning, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), 9808-9815.
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  42. West, T. N., Prinzing, M., Garton, C., Berman, C. J., Zhou, J., Hale, J., … Fredrickson, B. (2024, May 23). Improving Social Connection with Weak Ties and Strangers: Effects of a New Micro-Intervention on Interaction Quality and Social Behavior.
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  45. James Hale, Lindsey Schweitzer and Jonathan Gratch. Pitfalls of Embodiment in Human-Agent Experiment Design. 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Glasgow, Scotland 2024
  46. Bin Han, Cleo Yao, Su Lei, and Jonathan Gratch. Knowledge-based Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models. 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Glasgow, Scotland 2024
  47. Ala Tak and Jonathan Gratch. GPT-4 emulates average-human emotional cognition from a third-person perspective. 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Glasgow, Scotland 2024
  48. Hyundong Cho, Liu Shuai, Taiwei Shi, Darpan Jain, Basem Rizk, Yuyang Huang, Zixun Lu, N. Wen, Jonathan Gratch, Emilio Ferrera and Jonathan May. “Can Language Model Moderators Improve the Health of Online Discourse? NAACL 2024
  49. Nurunnabi, Abdul, Felicia Teferle, Debra F. Laefer, Meida Chen, and Mir Masoom Ali. “Development of a Precise Tree Structure from LiDAR Point Clouds.” The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 48 (2024): 301-308. l
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  52. Vlake, J.H., Drop, D.L.Q., van Bommel, J., Riva, G., Wiederhold, B.K. Cipresso, P., Rizzo, A.S., Rothbaum, B.O. Botella, C., Hooft, L., Bienvenu, O.J., Jung, C., Geerts, B., Wils, E-J., Birckhead, B.J., Gommers, D. & van Genderen, M.E. (2024 in press). Reporting guideline for the early-phase clinical evaluation of applications using extended reality: RATE-XR. The Journal of Medical Internet Research.
  53. Zaizar, E.D., Gramlich, M.A., Rizzo, A.S., Reger, G.M. and Norr, A.M. (2024 in press). Exploration of The Impact of Baseline Clinician Learner Characteristics on Motivational Interviewing Skill Improvement Following Training with a Virtual Standardized Patient. Journal of Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
  54. Bell, I.H., Pot-Kolder, R., Rizzo, A., Rus-Calafell, M., Cardi, V., Cella, M., Ward, T., Riches, S., Reinoso, M., Thompson, A., Alvarez-Jimenez, M., & Valmaggia, L. (2024). Advances in the field of virtual reality for mental health disorders. Nature Reviews Psychology.
  55. Spiegel, B.M.R., Rizzo, A., Persky, S., Liran, O., Wiederhold, B., Woods, S., Donovan, K., Sarkar, K., Xiang, H., Ahn, S.J., Jotwani, R., Lang, M., Paul, M., Senter-Zapata, M., Widmeier, K., & Zhang, M. (2024). What is Medical Extended Reality? A New Taxonomy Defining the Current Breadth and Depth of an Evolving Field. Journal of Medical Extended Reality.
  56. Goh, C., Ma, A., & Rizzo, A. (2024). Normative Performance Data on Visual Attention in Neurotypical Children: Virtual Reality Assessment of Cognitive and Psychomotor Development. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Sec. Virtual Reality in Medicine 5. 
  57. 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 Multisession Functional MRI Data of Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress. Chronic Stress. 2023;7.
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  61. 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.
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  64. Saxon L, Faulk RT, Boberg J, Barrett T, McLelland S. Continuous Assessment of Active-Duty Army Special Operations and Reconnaissance Marines Using Digital Devices and Custom Software: The Digital Comprehensive Operator Readiness Assessment (DcORA) Study. J Spec Oper Med. 2024 Jun 13:PXKK-I23D.
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  74. PENDING: Enhancing Operational Decision-Making with Adaptive Head-Mounted Display Interfaces for IITSEC 2024
  75. PENDING: See Like a Satellite: Adapting Human Vision to Complex Sensing Technologies with Adaptive Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Recognition Training (ASIRT) for IITSEC 2024
  76. M. Awada, B. Becerik-Gerber, G. Lucas, S. Roll and R. Liu, “A New Perspective on Stress Detection: An Automated Approach for Detecting Eustress and Distress,” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing..
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  87. Joshi, Himanshu, and Volkan Ustun. “Augmenting Cognitive Architectures with Large Language Models.” Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 2024, pp. 281-285. 
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  94. Jacqueline Brixey (University of Southern California); David Traum (USC Institute for Creative Technologies) “Why should a dialogue system speak more than one language?;  IWSDS 2024, Sapporo Japan, March, 2024.
  95. Fabien Danieau, Philippe Guillotel, Ludovic Hoyet, Steve Tonneau,Yajie Zhao. “Editorial: Creating Lifelike Digital Humans.” (Frontiers in Virtual Reality 2023).
  96. Jing Yang, Hanyuan Xiao, Wenbin Teng, Yunxuan Cai, Yajie Zhao. “Light Sampling Field and BRDF Representation for Physically-based Neural Rendering” (ICLR 2023).
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Co-Authored with ARL/DoD OCT 1, 2023 – SEPT 30, 2024 

  1. Celso de Melo, Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella and Catherine Pelachaud, Social Functions of Machine Emotional Expressions,” Proceedings of the IEEE Volume: 111, Issue 10, October (2023)
  2. Synthetic-to-real adaptation for complex action recognition in surveillance applications, Shuhong Lu, Zhangyu Jin, Vickram Rajendran, Michal Harari, Andrew Feng, Celso M. De Melo, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing.
  3. Ryoya Ito, Celso de Melo, Jonathan Gratch and Kazunori Terada. Emotional expression helps regulate the appropriate level of cooperation with agents. 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Glasgow, Scotland 2024
  4. Takahisha Uchida, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Celso de Melo, Jonathan Gratch, and Kazunori Terada. People negotiate better with emotional human-like virtual agents than android robots. 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Glasgow, Scotland 2024
  5.  Yu, Zifan, Erfan Bank Tavakoli, Meida Chen, Suya You, Raghuveer Rao, Sanjeev Agarwal, and Fengbo Ren. “Tokenmotion: Motion-Guided Vision Transformer for Video Camouflaged Object Detection VIA Learnable Token Selection.” In ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP Oral), pp. 2875-2879. IEEE, 2024.
  6. Aris, T., Ustun, V., & Kumar, R. (2024). Training Reinforcement Learning Agents to React to an Ambush for Military Simulations. In The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (Vol. 37). 
  7. Koresh, C., Ustun, V., Kumar, R., & Aris, T. (2024). Improving Reinforcement Learning Experiments in Unity through Waypoint Utilization. In The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings (Vol. 37).
  8. Stephanie M. Lukin, Claire Bonial, Matthew Marge, Taylor A. Hudson, Cory J. Hayes, Kimberly Pollard, Anthony Baker, Ashley N. Foots, Ron Artstein, Felix Gervits, Mitchell Abrams, Cassidy Henry, Lucia Donatelli, Anton Leuski, Susan G. Hill, David Traum, and Clare Voss. SCOUT: A situated and multi-modal human-robot dialogue corpus. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italy, May 2024. Co-authored with ARL.
  9. Kumar, P., Gordon, A., and Raglin, A. (2024) Abductive Reasoning for Supporting Uncertainty of Information based Decision-Making with the Enhanced Tactical Inferencing Framework (Abstract). 92nd Military Operations Research Symposium, June 24-27, 2024, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.
  10. Setareh Nasihati Gilani, Kimberly Pollard, David Traum, Multimodal Prediction of User’s Performance in High-Stress Dialogue Interactions, ICMI ’23 Late Breaking Results, Paris, October 2023.
  11. Stephanie M. Lukin, Claire Bonial, Matthew Marge, Taylor A. Hudson, Cory J. Hayes, Kimberly Pollard, Anthony Baker, Ashley N. Foots, Ron Artstein, Felix Gervits, Mitchell Abrams, Cassidy Henry, Lucia Donatelli, Anton Leuski, Susan G. Hill, David Traum, and Clare Voss. 2024. SCOUT: A Situated and Multi-Modal Human-Robot Dialogue Corpus. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 14445–14458, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
  12. Vera Harris (University of the Incarnate Word); Robert Braggs (United States Military Academy); David Traum (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)“I’m not sure I heard you right, but I think I know what you mean” – investigations into the impact of speech recognition errors on response selection for a virtual human. IWSDS 2024, Sapporo Japan, March, 2024.

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

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