Talking – to a computer-generated interviewer named Ellie – appears to free soldiers and veterans who served in war zones to disclose symptoms of post-traumatic stress, a new study from USC Institute for Creative Technologies finds. Read the full article on...

The Institute for Creative Technologies at USC got lots of buzz for its original research, and introducing the world to Ellie, a digital diagnostic tool that strongly resembles, but cannot replace a human therapist. Ellie, an avatar of a woman in a cardigan with...

Julien Crockett of LA Review of Books discusses a panel discussion and meeting with ICT's Jonathan Gratch. "On the evening I met Actroid-F, Jonathan Gratch, from USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), sat with her creator, Yoshio Matsumoto, both, or should I...

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and inexpensive computing power, jobs that once weren’t considered good candidates for automation suddenly are. The Guardian explores a variety of jobs that computers can do, mentioning ICT's...

Comic-Con's "Impossible Science" visits ICT to meet with Jonathan Gratch and 'Ellie' for an episode centered around artificial intelligence. Visit Comic-Con HQ's site to view the full episode.

While bots have a long way to go to reach their potential, even the emotionless bots of today have changed the world for the better, from revealing epidemics of violence against young girls (U-Report) to automating government bureaucracies like homeless status...

Vice's Motherboard features ICT's SimSensei project and Skip Rizzo and Stefan Scherer. The article states that developers at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) have turned their attention to adding emotional intelligence to...

An viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Association cites Ellie, the clinical interviewer in ICT's SimSensei project as an example of a machine learning technology. The article states that the profession of medicine has a tremendous opportunity and...

The Guardian featured ELLIE, a virtual human interviewer developed by the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. In ICT's SimSensei project, ELLIE is designed to respond to a patients social cues and make it easier for a real therapist to make a diagnosis. The story...

NPR's All Things Considered and Planet Money featured ICT's SimSensei project which uses a virtual human and sensing technologies to help detect signs of depression and PTSD. The stories explained that Ellie, ICT's virtual human interviewer, listens to answers and...