Publications

@incollection{smith_becoming_2025,

title = {Becoming Fei: An Educational Game for AI and Data Science Education for Novice Learners},

author = {Ning Wang and Boxi Fu and Betul Dincer and Omkar Masur and David Faizi and Harshul Ravindran and Julia Wang and Devashish Lai and Chirag Merchant},

editor = {Brian K. Smith and Marcela Borge},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-93746-0_6},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-93746-0_6},

isbn = {978-3-031-93745-3 978-3-031-93746-0},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-05-01},

urldate = {2025-06-12},

booktitle = {Learning and Collaboration Technologies},

volume = {15808},

pages = {69–79},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {DTIC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{stone_virtual_2025,

title = {The Virtual Ukraine Project: Trauma Therapy in Warzones with Virtual Reality},

author = {Albert “Skip” Rizzo and Cezar Giosan and George Deac and Olya Zaporozhets and Oksana Syvak and Svetlana Dragayeva and Ehud Bodner and Shel Mann and Jessica Stone},

editor = {Jessica Stone},

url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781394278480.ch12},

doi = {10.1002/9781394278480.ch12},

isbn = {978-1-394-27845-9 978-1-394-27848-0},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-16},

booktitle = {Mental Health Virtual Reality},

pages = {159–180},

publisher = {Wiley},

edition = {1},

keywords = {MedVR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{stephanidis_virtually_2025,

title = {Virtually Human: An Exhibit for Public AI Education},

author = {Ning Wang and Timothy Hurt and Ari Krakowski and Eric Greenwald and Jim Hammerman and Sabrina De Los Santos and Omkar Masur and Boxi Fu and Chirag Merchant},

editor = {Constantine Stephanidis and Margherita Antona and Stavroula Ntoa and Gavriel Salvendy},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-94171-9_42},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-94171-9_42},

isbn = {978-3-031-94170-2 978-3-031-94171-9},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-06-17},

booktitle = {HCI International 2025 Posters},

volume = {2529},

pages = {436–443},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Communications in Computer and Information Science},

keywords = {DTIC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{leonardis_dim_2024,

title = {DIM: Dyadic Interaction Modeling for Social Behavior Generation},

author = {Minh Tran and Di Chang and Maksim Siniukov and Mohammad Soleymani},

editor = {Aleš Leonardis and Elisa Ricci and Stefan Roth and Olga Russakovsky and Torsten Sattler and Gül Varol},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-72913-3_27},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-72913-3_27},

isbn = {978-3-031-72912-6 978-3-031-72913-3},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-12-01},

urldate = {2025-01-16},

booktitle = {Computer Vision – ECCV 2024},

volume = {15095},

pages = {484–503},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {DTIC, Social},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{kajimoto_how_2024,

title = {How Visualizing Touch Can Transform Perceptions of Intensity, Realism, and Emotion?},

author = {Xin Zhu and Zhenghui Su and Jonathan Gratch and Heather Culbertson},

editor = {Hiroyuki Kajimoto and Pedro Lopes and Claudio Pacchierotti and Cagatay Basdogan and Monica Gori and Betty Lemaire-Semail and Maud Marchal},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-70058-3_16},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-70058-3_16},

isbn = {978-3-031-70057-6 978-3-031-70058-3},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-11-01},

urldate = {2024-12-05},

booktitle = {Haptics: Understanding Touch; Technology and Systems; Applications and Interaction},

volume = {14768},

pages = {194–207},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {VR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{leonardis_ex2eg-mae_2024,

title = {Ex2Eg-MAE: A Framework for Adaptation of Exocentric Video Masked Autoencoders for Egocentric Social Role Understanding},

author = {Minh Tran and Yelin Kim and Che-Chun Su and Cheng-Hao Kuo and Min Sun and Mohammad Soleymani},

editor = {Aleš Leonardis and Elisa Ricci and Stefan Roth and Olga Russakovsky and Torsten Sattler and Gül Varol},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-72989-8_1},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-72989-8_1},

isbn = {978-3-031-72988-1 978-3-031-72989-8},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-10-01},

urldate = {2024-12-06},

booktitle = {Computer Vision – ECCV 2024},

volume = {15138},

pages = {1–19},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{sottilare_trend-aware_2024,

title = {Trend-Aware Scenario Authoring: Adapting Training Toward Patterns from Real Operations},

author = {Mark G. Core and Benjamin D. Nye and Brent D. Fegley},

editor = {Robert A. Sottilare and Jessica Schwarz},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-60609-0_2},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-60609-0_2},

isbn = {978-3-031-60608-3 978-3-031-60609-0},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-06-01},

urldate = {2024-06-18},

booktitle = {Adaptive Instructional Systems},

volume = {14727},

pages = {15–24},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {DTIC, Learning Sciences, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{sottilare_bootstrapping_2024,

title = {Bootstrapping Assessments for Team Simulations: Transfer Learning Between First-Person-Shooter Game Maps},

author = {Benjamin D. Nye and Mark G. Core and Sai V. R. Chereddy and Vivian Young and Daniel Auerbach},

editor = {Robert A. Sottilare and Jessica Schwarz},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-60609-0_19},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-60609-0_19},

isbn = {978-3-031-60608-3 978-3-031-60609-0},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-06-01},

urldate = {2024-06-18},

booktitle = {Adaptive Instructional Systems},

volume = {14727},

pages = {261–271},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {DTIC, Learning Sciences, Machine Learning, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{rich_settling_2024,

title = {Settling the Score: Virtual Reality as a Tool to Enhance Trauma-Focused Therapy for PTSD},

author = {Albert Skip Rizzo and Arno Hartholt and Sharon Mozgai},

editor = {Grant J. Rich and V. K. Kumar and Frank H. Farley},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-56537-3_14},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-56537-3_14},

isbn = {978-3-031-56536-6 978-3-031-56537-3},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-04-01},

urldate = {2024-06-18},

booktitle = {Handbook of Media Psychology},

pages = {187–213},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

keywords = {DTIC, MedVR, Simulation, VR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{holloway-attaway_playing_2023,

title = {Playing Story Creation Games with Large Language Models: Experiments with GPT-3.5},

author = {Timothy S. Wang and Andrew S. Gordon},

editor = {Lissa Holloway-Attaway and John T. Murray},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-47658-7_28},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-47658-7_28},

isbn = {978-3-031-47657-0 978-3-031-47658-7},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-01},

urldate = {2023-12-07},

booktitle = {Interactive Storytelling},

volume = {14384},

pages = {297–305},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {DTIC, Narrative, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{degen_design_2023,

title = {The Design of Transparency Communication for Human-Multirobot Teams},

author = {Ning Wang and David V. Pynadath and Nikolos Gurney},

editor = {Helmut Degen and Stavroula Ntoa},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-35894-4_23},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-35894-4_23},

isbn = {978-3-031-35893-7 978-3-031-35894-4},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-01},

urldate = {2023-08-24},

booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in HCI},

volume = {14051},

pages = {311–321},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {AI, DTIC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{kurosu_relationship_2023,

title = {The Relationship Between Pauses and Emphasis: Implications for Charismatic Speech Synthesis},

author = {Ning Wang and Abhilash Karpurapu and Aditya Jajodia and Chirag Merchant},

editor = {Masaaki Kurosu and Ayako Hashizume},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-35602-5_29},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-35602-5_29},

isbn = {978-3-031-35601-8 978-3-031-35602-5},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-01},

urldate = {2023-09-20},

booktitle = {Human-Computer Interaction},

volume = {14013},

pages = {407–418},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {AI, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{wang_can_2023,

title = {Can Virtual Agents Scale Up Mentoring?: Insights from College Students’ Experiences Using the CareerFair.ai Platform at an American Hispanic-Serving Institution},

author = {Yuko Okado and Benjamin D. Nye and Angelica Aguirre and William Swartout},

editor = {Ning Wang and Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez and Noboru Matsuda and Olga C. Santos and Vania Dimitrova},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-36272-9_16},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-36272-9_16},

isbn = {978-3-031-36271-2 978-3-031-36272-9},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-06-01},

urldate = {2023-08-23},

booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in Education},

volume = {13916},

pages = {189–201},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {DTIC, UARC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{wang_virtual_2023,

title = {Virtual Agent Approach for Teaching the Collaborative Problem Solving Skill of Negotiation},

author = {Emmanuel Johnson and Jonathan Gratch and Yolanda Gil},

editor = {Ning Wang and Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez and Vania Dimitrova and Noboru Matsuda and Olga C. Santos},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_82},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_82},

isbn = {978-3-031-36335-1 978-3-031-36336-8},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-06-01},

urldate = {2023-09-20},

booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky},

volume = {1831},

pages = {530–535},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Communications in Computer and Information Science},

keywords = {UARC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{hammer_rethinking_2023,

title = {Rethinking the Physical Symbol Systems Hypothesis},

author = {Paul S. Rosenbloom},

editor = {Patrick Hammer and Marjan Alirezaie and Claes Strannegård},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-33469-6_21},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-33469-6_21},

isbn = {978-3-031-33468-9 978-3-031-33469-6},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-05-01},

urldate = {2023-08-24},

booktitle = {Artificial General Intelligence},

volume = {13921},

pages = {207–216},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {CogArch, Cognitive Architecture},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gurney_comparing_2023,

title = {Comparing Psychometric and Behavioral Predictors of Compliance During Human-AI Interactions},

author = {Nikolos Gurney and David V. Pynadath and Ning Wang},

url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01854},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-30933-5_12},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-01},

urldate = {2023-08-15},

volume = {13832},

pages = {175–197},

abstract = {Optimization of human-AI teams hinges on the AI's ability to tailor its interaction to individual human teammates. A common hypothesis in adaptive AI research is that minor differences in people's predisposition to trust can significantly impact their likelihood of complying with recommendations from the AI. Predisposition to trust is often measured with self-report inventories that are administered before interactions. We benchmark a popular measure of this kind against behavioral predictors of compliance. We find that the inventory is a less effective predictor of compliance than the behavioral measures in datasets taken from three previous research projects. This suggests a general property that individual differences in initial behavior are more predictive than differences in self-reported trust attitudes. This result also shows a potential for easily accessible behavioral measures to provide an AI with more accurate models without the use of (often costly) survey instruments.},

note = {arXiv:2302.01854 [cs]},

keywords = {AI, DTIC, Social Simulation, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{brown_clinical_2023,

title = {Clinical virtual reality: The state of the science.},

author = {Albert Rizzo and Sebastian Koenig and Belinda Lange},

editor = {Gregory G. Brown and Bruce Crosson and Kathleen Y. Haaland and Tricia Z. King},

url = {http://content.apa.org/books/17303-023},

doi = {10.1037/0000308-023},

isbn = {978-1-4338-4001-2 978-1-4338-4002-9},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-08-24},

booktitle = {APA handbook of neuropsychology, Volume 2: Neuroscience and neuromethods (Vol. 2).},

pages = {473–491},

publisher = {American Psychological Association},

address = {Washington},

keywords = {MedVR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gurney_my_2023,

title = {My Actions Speak Louder Than Your Words: When User Behavior Predicts Their Beliefs about Agents' Attributes},

author = {Nikolos Gurney and David Pynadath and Ning Wang},

url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09011},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-35894-4_17},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-08-15},

volume = {14051},

pages = {232–248},

abstract = {An implicit expectation of asking users to rate agents, such as an AI decision-aid, is that they will use only relevant information – ask them about an agent's benevolence, and they should consider whether or not it was kind. Behavioral science, however, suggests that people sometimes use irrelevant information. We identify an instance of this phenomenon, where users who experience better outcomes in a human-agent interaction systematically rated the agent as having better abilities, being more benevolent, and exhibiting greater integrity in a post hoc assessment than users who experienced worse outcome – which were the result of their own behavior – with the same agent. Our analyses suggest the need for augmentation of models so that they account for such biased perceptions as well as mechanisms so that agents can detect and even actively work to correct this and similar biases of users.},

note = {arXiv:2301.09011 [cs]},

keywords = {DTIC, Social Simulation, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{lugrin_challenge_2022,

title = {Challenge Discussion on Socially Interactive Agents: Considerations on Social Interaction, Computational Architectures, Evaluation, and Ethics},

author = {Birgit Lugrin and Catherine Pelachaud and Elisabeth André and Ruth Aylett and Timothy Bickmore and Cynthia Breazeal and Joost Broekens and Kerstin Dautenhahn and Jonathan Gratch and Stefan Kopp and Jacqueline Nadel and Ana Paiva and Agnieszka Wykowska},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3563659.3563677},

isbn = {978-1-4503-9896-1},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-11-01},

urldate = {2023-03-31},

booktitle = {The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 2: Interactivity, Platforms, Application},

volume = {48},

pages = {561–626},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {New York, NY, USA},

edition = {1},

keywords = {UARC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{traum_socially_2022,

title = {Socially Interactive Agent Dialogue},

author = {David Traum},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3563659.3563663},

isbn = {978-1-4503-9896-1},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-11-01},

urldate = {2023-03-31},

booktitle = {The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 2: Interactivity, Platforms, Application},

volume = {48},

pages = {45–76},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {New York, NY, USA},

edition = {1},

keywords = {Natural Language, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{hartholt_platforms_2022,

title = {Platforms and Tools for SIA Research and Development},

author = {Arno Hartholt and Sharon Mozgai},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3563659.3563668},

isbn = {978-1-4503-9896-1},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-11-01},

urldate = {2023-03-31},

booktitle = {The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 2: Interactivity, Platforms, Application},

volume = {48},

pages = {261–304},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {New York, NY, USA},

edition = {1},

keywords = {UARC, VHTL, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{johnson_impact_2022,

title = {The Impact of Personalized Feedback on Negotiation Training},

author = {Emmanuel Johnson and Jonathan Gratch},

url = {https://adlnet.gov/assets/uploads/Vol%209_CompetencyBasedScenarioDesignBook_Complete_Final_021722v2.pdf#page=93},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-02-01},

urldate = {2022-02-01},

booktitle = {Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems},

volume = {Volume 9},

pages = {92–104},

publisher = {US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command–Soldier Center},

series = {Competency, Based Scenario Design},

abstract = {Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have made great strides in teaching cognitive skills, including math (Koedinger et al., 1997; Koedinger & Corbett, 2005; Koedinger & Corbett, 2006), reading (Mills-Tettey, et al., 2009; Wijekumar et al., 2005;) and computer literacy (Guo, 2015; Olney et al., 2017;). Recent research has begun to extend these techniques to interpersonal skills such as public speaking (Chollet et al., 2014), medical interviews (Pataki, 2012; Stevens, 2006), collaborative problem solving (Graesser et al., 2018) and negotiation (Gratch et al., 2016; Kim et al., 2009). An extensive body of research has documented the benefits of ITSs for cognitive skill development, but relative to this, research on ITSs for interpersonal skills is still in its infancy. This chapter highlights our efforts in adapting ITS techniques to teaching negotiation.},

keywords = {ARL, DoD, Social Simulation, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{paun_learning_2022,

title = {Learning from Multi-Annotated Corpora},

author = {Silviu Paun and Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio},

editor = {Silviu Paun and Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03763-4_6},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-03763-4_6},

isbn = {978-3-031-03763-4},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2023-03-31},

booktitle = {Statistical Methods for Annotation Analysis},

pages = {147–165},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies},

keywords = {Natural Language, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{paun_probabilistic_2022,

title = {Probabilistic Models of Agreement},

author = {Silviu Paun and Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio},

editor = {Silviu Paun and Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03763-4_4},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-03763-4_4},

isbn = {978-3-031-03763-4},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2023-03-31},

booktitle = {Statistical Methods for Annotation Analysis},

pages = {79–101},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies},

keywords = {Natural Language, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{paun_using_2022,

title = {Using Agreement Measures for CL Annotation Tasks},

author = {Silviu Paun and Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio},

editor = {Silviu Paun and Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03763-4_3},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-03763-4_3},

isbn = {978-3-031-03763-4},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2023-03-31},

booktitle = {Statistical Methods for Annotation Analysis},

pages = {47–78},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies},

abstract = {We will now review the use of intercoder agreement measures in CL since Carletta’s original paper in the light of the discussion in the previous sections. We begin with a summary of Krippendorff’s recommendations about measuring reliability (Krippendorff, 2004a, Chapter 11), then discuss how coefficients of agreement have been used in CL to measure the reliability of annotation, focusing in particular on the types of annotation where there has been some debate concerning the most appropriate measures of agreement.},

keywords = {Natural Language, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{paun_probabilistic_2022-1,

title = {Probabilistic Models of Annotation},

author = {Silviu Paun and Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio},

editor = {Silviu Paun and Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03763-4_5},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-03763-4_5},

isbn = {978-3-031-03763-4},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2023-03-31},

booktitle = {Statistical Methods for Annotation Analysis},

pages = {105–145},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

series = {Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies},

keywords = {Natural Language, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{zhou_pysigma_2022,

title = {PySigma: Towards Enhanced Grand Unification for the Sigma Cognitive Architecture},

author = {Jincheng Zhou and Volkan Ustun},

editor = {Ben Goertzel and Matthew Iklé and Alexey Potapov},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-93758-4_36},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-93758-4_36},

isbn = {978-3-030-93757-7 978-3-030-93758-4},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-09-21},

booktitle = {Artificial General Intelligence},

volume = {13154},

pages = {355–366},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

keywords = {CogArch, Cognitive Architecture, DTIC, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{baarslag_self-sufficient_2022,

title = {Self-sufficient, Self-directed, and Interdependent Negotiation Systems: A Roadmap Toward Autonomous Negotiation Agents},

author = {Tim Baarslag and Michael Kaisers and Enrico H. Gerding and Catholijn M. Jonker and Jonathan Gratch},

editor = {Emin Karagözoğlu and Kyle B. Hyndman},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-76666-5_18},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-76666-5_18},

isbn = {978-3-030-76665-8 978-3-030-76666-5},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-09-27},

booktitle = {Bargaining},

pages = {387–406},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

keywords = {Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gurney_route_2022,

title = {Route Optimization in Service of a Search and Rescue Artificial Social Intelligence Agent},

author = {Yunzhe Wang and Nikolos Gurney and Jincheng Zhou and David V. Pynadath and Volkan Ustun},

editor = {Nikolos Gurney and Gita Sukthankar},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-21671-8_14},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-21671-8_14},

isbn = {978-3-031-21670-1 978-3-031-21671-8},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2023-02-10},

booktitle = {Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Machine Teams},

volume = {13775},

pages = {220–228},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {Cognitive Architecture, Social Simulation, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gurney_operationalizing_2022,

title = {Operationalizing Theories of Theory of Mind: A Survey},

author = {Nikolos Gurney and Stacy Marsella and Volkan Ustun and David V. Pynadath},

editor = {Nikolos Gurney and Gita Sukthankar},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-21671-8_1},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-21671-8_1},

isbn = {978-3-031-21670-1 978-3-031-21671-8},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2023-02-10},

booktitle = {Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Machine Teams},

volume = {13775},

pages = {3–20},

publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},

address = {Cham},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {Cognitive Architecture, Social Simulation, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gratch_emotionally_2021,

title = {Emotionally resonant media},

author = {Jonathan Gratch and Gale M. Lucas},

url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429465758/chapters/10.4324/9780429465758-18},

doi = {10.4324/9780429465758-18},

isbn = {978-0-429-46575-8},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-10-01},

urldate = {2022-09-28},

booktitle = {Routledge International Handbook of Emotions and Media},

pages = {285–302},

publisher = {Routledge},

address = {London},

edition = {2},

keywords = {Emotions},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gratch_rapport_2021,

title = {Rapport Between Humans and Socially Interactive Agents},

author = {Jonathan Gratch and Gale Lucas},

editor = {Birgit Lugrin and Catherine Pelachaud and David Traum},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477322.3477335},

doi = {10.1145/3477322.3477335},

isbn = {978-1-4503-8720-0},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-09-01},

urldate = {2022-09-28},

booktitle = {The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents},

pages = {433–462},

publisher = {ACM},

address = {New York, NY, USA},

edition = {1},

keywords = {Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{nye_metrics_2021,

title = {Metrics for Engagement in Games and Simulations for Learning},

author = {Benjamin D. Nye and Mark G. Core and Aviroop Ghosal and Peter B. Walker},

url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429282201-5/metrics-engagement-games-simulations-learning-benjamin-nye-mark-core-aviroop-ghosal-peter-walker},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Using Cognitive and Affective Metrics in Educational Simulations and Games},

publisher = {Routledge},

abstract = {Games and simulations can be more engaging than other educational tools (e.g., textbooks, videos, problem sets), and this engagement can lead to improved short- and long-term learning. However, engagement in game-based learning is not automatic, and instead requires iterative design. In this work, we explore and compare metrics from research on learning sciences and from game design, considering different time scales of human action, ranging from biological engagement (e.g., eye gaze) up to lasting social ties (e.g., community building). Certain game-design approaches used for commercial games may be useful for game-based learning, such as establishing bottom-line metrics aligned to why the game was built or analyzing engagement in terms of facets or archetypes rather than on a unidirectional scale. Further research is required to study the interaction between engagement at different time scales, particularly for cases where higher long-term engagement is indicated by lower short-term engagement (e.g., skipping easy content).},

note = {Num Pages: 24},

keywords = {Learning Sciences, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gordon_narrative_2021,

title = {Narrative Text Generation from Abductive Interpretations Using Axiom-Specific Templates},

author = {Andrew S. Gordon and Timothy S. Wang},

editor = {Alex Mitchell and Mirjam Vosmeer},

url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_7},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_7},

isbn = {978-3-030-92299-3 978-3-030-92300-6},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2022-09-22},

booktitle = {Interactive Storytelling},

volume = {13138},

pages = {71–79},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

keywords = {DTIC, Narrative, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{dharo_towards_2021,

title = {Towards Personalization of Spoken Dialogue System Communication Strategies},

author = {Carla Gordon and Kallirroi Georgila and Volodymyr Yanov and David Traum},

editor = {Luis Fernando D'Haro and Zoraida Callejas and Satoshi Nakamura},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_11},

doi = {10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_11},

isbn = {9789811583940 9789811583957},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-04-15},

booktitle = {Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade},

volume = {704},

pages = {145--160},

publisher = {Springer Singapore},

address = {Singapore},

abstract = {This study examines the effects of 3 conversational traits – Register, Explicitness, and Misunderstandings – on user satisfaction and the perception of specific subjective features for Virtual Home Assistant spoken dialogue systems. Eight different system profiles were created, each representing a different combination of these 3 traits. We then utilized a novel Wizard of Oz data collection tool and recruited participants who interacted with the 8 different system profiles, and then rated the systems on 7 subjective features. Surprisingly, we found that systems which made errors were preferred overall, with the statistical analysis revealing error-prone systems were rated higher than systems which made no errors for all 7 of the subjective features rated. There were also some interesting interaction effects between the 3 conversational traits, such as implicit confirmations being preferred for systems employing a “conversational” Register, while explicit confirmations were preferred for systems employing a “formal” Register, even though there was no overall main effect for Explicitness. This experimental framework offers a fine-grained approach to the evaluation of user satisfaction which looks towards the personalization of communication strategies for spoken dialogue systems.},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},

keywords = {Dialogue, Natural Language, UARC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gervits_classification-based_2021,

title = {A Classification-Based Approach to Automating Human-Robot Dialogue},

author = {Felix Gervits and Anton Leuski and Claire Bonial and Carla Gordon and David Traum},

editor = {Erik Marchi and Sabato Marco Siniscalchi and Sandro Cumani and Valerio Mario Salerno and Haizhou Li},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9323-9_10},

doi = {10.1007/978-981-15-9323-9_10},

isbn = {978-981-15-9323-9},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2022-09-23},

booktitle = {Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction: 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems},

pages = {115–127},

publisher = {Springer},

address = {Singapore},

series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},

abstract = {We present a dialogue system based on statistical classification which was used to automate human-robot dialogue in a collaborative navigation domain. The classifier was trained on a small corpus of multi-floor Wizard-of-Oz dialogue including two wizards: one standing in for dialogue capabilities and another for navigation. Below, we describe the implementation details of the classifier and show how it was used to automate the dialogue wizard. We evaluate our system on several sets of source data from the corpus and find that response accuracy is generally high, even with very limited training data. Another contribution of this work is the novel demonstration of a dialogue manager that uses the classifier to engage in multi-floor dialogue with two different human roles. Overall, this approach is useful for enabling spoken dialogue systems to produce robust and accurate responses to natural language input, and for robots that need to interact with humans in a team setting.},

keywords = {Dialogue, DTIC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{dharo_masheli_2021,

title = {Masheli: A Choctaw-English Bilingual Chatbot},

author = {Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum},

editor = {Luis Fernando D'Haro and Zoraida Callejas and Satoshi Nakamura},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_4},

doi = {10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_4},

isbn = {9789811583940 9789811583957},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-04-15},

booktitle = {Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade},

volume = {704},

pages = {41--50},

publisher = {Springer Singapore},

address = {Singapore},

abstract = {We present the implementation of an autonomous Choctaw-English bilingual chatbot. Choctaw is an American indigenous language. The intended use of the chatbot is for Choctaw language learners to practice. The system’s backend is NPCEditor, a response selection program that is trained on linked questions and answers. The chatbot’s answers are stories and conversational utterances in both languages. We experiment with the ability of NPCEditor to appropriately respond to language mixed utterances, and describe a pilot study with Choctaw-English speakers.},

note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},

keywords = {Natural Language, UARC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{barnes_human-agent_2021,

title = {Human-agent bidirectional transparency},

author = {Michael J. Barnes and Ning Wang and David V. Pynadath and Jessie Y. C. Chen},

url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/B9780128194720000101},

doi = {10.1016/B978-0-12-819472-0.00010-1},

isbn = {978-0-12-819472-0},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2022-10-24},

booktitle = {Trust in Human-Robot Interaction},

pages = {209–232},

publisher = {Elsevier},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{brixey_masheli_2020,

title = {Masheli: A Choctaw-English bilingual chatbot},

author = {Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_4},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-10-01},

booktitle = {Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade},

pages = {41–50},

publisher = {Springer},

address = {Switzerland},

abstract = {We present the implementation of an autonomous Choctaw-English bilingual chatbot. Choctaw is an American indigenous language. The intended use of the chatbot is for Choctaw language learners to pratice conversational skills. The system’s backend is NPCEditor, a response selection program that is trained on linked questions and answers. The chatbot’s answers are stories and conversational utterances in both languages. We experiment with the ability of NPCEditor to appropriately respond to language mixed utterances, and describe a pilot study with Choctaw-English speakers.},

keywords = {ARO-Coop, Natural Language, UARC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{gordon_towards_2020,

title = {Towards Personalization of Spoken Dialogue System Communication Strategies},

author = {Carla Gordon and Kallirroi Georgila and Volodymyr Yanov and David Traum},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_11},

isbn = {978-981-15-8394-0 978-981-15-8395-7},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-09-01},

booktitle = {Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade},

volume = {704},

pages = {145–160},

publisher = {Springer Singapore},

address = {Singapore},

abstract = {This study examines the effects of 3 conversational traits – Register, Explicitness, and Misunderstandings – on user satisfaction and the perception of specific subjective features for Virtual Home Assistant spoken dialogue systems. Eight different system profiles were created, each representing a different combination of these 3 traits. We then utilized a novel Wizard of Oz data collection tool and recruited participants who interacted with the 8 different system profiles, and then rated the systems on 7 subjective features. Surprisingly, we found that systems which made errors were preferred overall, with the statistical analysis revealing error-prone systems were rated higher than systems which made no errors for all 7 of the subjective features rated. There were also some interesting interaction effects between the 3 conversational traits, such as implicit confirmations being preferred for systems employing a “conversational” Register, while explicit confirmations were preferred for systems employing a “formal” Register, even though there was no overall main effect for Explicitness. This experimental framework offers a fine-grained approach to the evaluation of user satisfaction which looks towards the personalization of communication strategies for spoken dialogue systems.},

keywords = {ARO-Coop, Dialogue, Natural Language, UARC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{mozgai_development_2020,

title = {Development and Initial Feasibility Testing of the Virtual Research Navigator (VRN): A Public-Facing Agent-Based Educational System for Clinical Research Participation},

author = {Sharon Mozgai and Arno Hartholt and Dayo Akinyemi and Katarina Kubicek and Albert (Skip) Rizzo and Michele Kipke},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-50729-9_43},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-50729-9_43},

isbn = {978-3-030-50728-2 978-3-030-50729-9},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-07-01},

booktitle = {HCI International 2020 - Posters},

volume = {1225},

pages = {304–307},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham, Switzerland},

abstract = {The overall goal of VRN is to develop a novel technology solution at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to overcome barriers that prevent the recruitment of diverse patient populations to clinical trials by providing both caregivers and children with an interactive educational experience. This system consists of 1) an intelligent agent called Zippy that users interact with by keyboard or voice input, 2) a series of videos covering topics including Privacy, Consent and Benefits, and 3) a UI that guides users through all available content. Pre- and post-questionnaires assessed willingness to participate in clinical research and found participants either increased or maintained their level of willingness to participate in research studies. Additionally, qualitative analysis of interview data revealed participants rated the overall interaction favorably and believed Zippy to be more fun, less judgmental and less threatening than interacting with a human. Future iterations are in-progress based on the user-feedback},

keywords = {MedVR, VHTL, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{talbot_storyboarding_2020,

title = {Storyboarding the Virtuality: Methods and Best Practices to Depict Scenes and Interactive Stories in Virtual and Mixed Reality},

author = {Thomas Brett Talbot and Katherine Elizabeth Thiry and Michael Jenkins},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-51828-8_17},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-51828-8_17},

isbn = {978-3-030-51827-1 978-3-030-51828-8},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-07-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology},

volume = {1217},

pages = {129–135},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham, Switzerland},

abstract = {Storyboarding is a cinematic prototyping technique to visualize settings, event sequences, dialogues & character depictions. Interactive VR/MR experiences benefit from storyboarding as part of the creation process, yet free movement & immersive 3D introduce challenges. Techniques to visualize 3D settings are explored with methods to conduct traditional storyboarding while requiring multiple viewpoints within a single timestep are elaborated. This is possible w/ perspective scene views. Even with 3D prototyping tools, it is important to maintain practices which optimize VR storyboarding and maintain spatial efficiency, allow storyboards to be hand drawn and be intuitive to read. A powerful solution is to bind several perspectives together to represent a specific time while reverting to a traditional single viewpoint when not necessary, therefore balancing three dimensionality, spatial efficiency & ease of creation.},

keywords = {MedVR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{lucas_reporting_2019,

title = {Reporting Mental Health Symptoms: Breaking Down Barriers to Care with Virtual Human Interviewers},

author = {Gale M. Lucas and Albert Rizzo and Jonathan Gratch and Stefan Scherer and Giota Stratou and Jill Boberg and Louis-Philippe Morency},

url = {https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=N724DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=The+Impact+of+Virtual+and+Augmented+Reality+on+Individuals+and+Society&ots=ZMD1P9T-K5&sig=Qqh7iHZ4Xq2iRyYecrECHwNNE38#v=onepage&q=The%20Impact%20of%20Virtual%20and%20Augmented%20Reality%20on%20Individuals%20and%20Society&f=false},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-09-01},

booktitle = {The Impact of Virtual and Augmented Reality on Individuals and Society},

pages = {256–264},

publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},

abstract = {A common barrier to healthcare for psychiatric conditions is the stigma associated with these disorders. Perceived stigma prevents many from reporting their symptoms. Stigma is a particularly pervasive problem among military service members, preventing them from reporting symptoms of combat-related conditions like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, research shows (increased reporting by service members when anonymous assessments are used. For example, service members report more symptoms of PTSD when they anonymously answer the Post-Deployment Health Assessment (PDHA) symptom checklist compared to the official PDHA, which is identifiable and linked to their military records. To investigate the factors that influence reporting of psychological symptoms by service members, we used a transformative technology: automated virtual humans that interview people about their symptoms. Such virtual human interviewers allow simultaneous use of two techniques for eliciting disclosure that would otherwise be incompatible; they afford anonymity while also building rapport. We examined whether virtual human interviewers could increase disclosure of mental health symptoms among active-duty service members that just returned from a year-long deployment in Afghanistan. Service members reported more symptoms during a conversation with a virtual human interviewer than on the official PDHA. They also reported more to a virtual human interviewer than on an anonymized PDHA. A second, larger sample of active-duty and former service members found a similar effect that approached statistical significance. Because respondents in both studies shared more with virtual human interviewers than an anonymized PDHA—even though both conditions control for stigma and ramifications for service members’ military records—virtual human interviewers that build rapport may provide a superior option to encourage reporting.},

keywords = {MedVR, UARC, Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{bouchard_applications_2019,

title = {Applications of Virtual Reality in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience–An Introduction},

author = {Stéphane Bouchard and Albert “Skip” Rizzo},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4939-9482-3_1},

doi = {10.1007/978-1-4939-9482-3_1},

isbn = {978-1-4939-9480-9 978-1-4939-9482-3},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-08-01},

booktitle = {Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions},

pages = {1–13},

publisher = {Springer New York},

address = {New York, NY},

abstract = {Simulation technology has a long history of adding value in aviation, military training, automotive/aircraft design, and surgical planning. In clinical psychology, Norcross et al. (2013) surveyed 70 therapy experts regarding interventions they predicted to increase in the next decade and virtual reality (VR) was ranked 4th out of 45 options, with other computer-supported methods occupying 4 out of the top 5 positions. The increased popularity of VR in the news, social media, conferences, and from innovative start-ups may give the impression that VR is something new. However, it is important to look back in time and recognize that as early as the 1960’s, Heilig proposed a multisensory immersive experienced called the Sensorama, and Sutherland and Sproull had created a stereoscopic head mounted display (HMD) (Berryman 2012; Srivastava et al. 2014). The term VR was coined more than 30 years ago by Jaron Lanier and commercial games were distributed to the public as early as 1989 by Mattel (in the US, and by PAX in Japan) for its PowerGlove™ and Nintendo’s failed Virtual Boy™ was released in 1995. Clinical VR applications were proposed as early as the mid 1990’s by Lamson, Pugnetti, Rothbaum, Riva, Rizzo, Weiss, and Wiederhold (named in alphabetical order), among others. Moreover, several scientific journals, conferences, and handbooks dedicated to the subject have been reporting scientific findings for decades.},

keywords = {MedVR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{parsons_review_2019,

title = {A Review of Virtual Classroom Environments for Neuropsychological Assessment},

author = {Thomas D. Parsons and Albert “Skip” Rizzo},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4939-9482-3_11},

doi = {10.1007/978-1-4939-9482-3_11},

isbn = {978-1-4939-9480-9 978-1-4939-9482-3},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-08-01},

booktitle = {Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions},

pages = {247–265},

publisher = {Springer New York},

address = {New York, NY},

abstract = {Differential diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychological disorders require assessments that can differentiate overlapping symptoms. Previous research has most often relied on paper-and-pencil as well as computerized psychometric tests of cognitive functions. Although these approaches provide highly systematic control and delivery of performance challenges, they have also been criticized as limited in the area of ecological validity. A possible answer to the problems of ecological validity in assessment of cognitive functioning in neurological populations is to immerse the participant in a virtual environment. This chapter reviews the potential of various virtual classroom environments that have been developed for neuropsychological assessment.},

keywords = {MedVR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{talbot_virtual_2019-1,

title = {Virtual Human Standardized Patients for Clinical Training},

author = {Thomas Talbot and Albert “Skip” Rizzo},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4939-9482-3_17},

doi = {10.1007/978-1-4939-9482-3_17},

isbn = {978-1-4939-9480-9 978-1-4939-9482-3},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-08-01},

booktitle = {Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions},

pages = {387–405},

publisher = {Springer New York},

address = {New York, NY},

abstract = {Since Dr. Howard Barrows (1964) introduced the human standardized patient in 1963, there have been attempts to game a computer-based simulacrum of a patient encounter; the first being a heart attack simulation using the online PLATO system (Bitzer M, Nursing Research 15:144–150, 1966). With the now ubiquitous use of computers in medicine, interest and effort have expended in the area of Virtual Patients (VPs). There are excellent summaries in the literature (Talbot TB, International Journal of Gaming and Computer Mediated Simulations 4:1–19, 2012) that explain the different types of virtual patients along with their best case applications, strengths and limitations.},

keywords = {MedVR, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{lee_assessment_2019,

title = {An Assessment Framework for DialPort},

author = {Kyusong Lee and Tiancheng Zhao and Stefan Ultes and Lina Rojas-Barahona and Eli Pincus and David Traum and Maxine Eskenazi},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-92108-2_10},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-92108-2_10},

isbn = {978-3-319-92107-5 978-3-319-92108-2},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-06-01},

urldate = {2019-10-28},

booktitle = {Advanced Social Interaction with Agents},

volume = {510},

pages = {79–85},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

abstract = {Collecting a large amount of real human-computer interaction data in various domains is a cornerstone in the development of better data-driven spoken dialog systems. The DialPort project is creating a portal to collect a constant stream of real user conversational data on a variety of topics. In order to keep real users attracted to DialPort, it is crucial to develop a robust evaluation framework to monitor and maintain high performance. Different from earlier spoken dialog systems, DialPort has a heterogeneous set of spoken dialog systems gathered under one outward-looking agent. In order to access this new structure, we have identified some unique challenges that DialPort will encounter so that it can appeal to real users and have created a novel evaluation scheme that quantitatively assesses their performance in these situations. We look at assessment from the point of view of the system developer as well as that of the end user.},

keywords = {Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{johnson_intelligent_2019,

title = {Intelligent Tutoring System for Negotiation Skills Training},

author = {Emmanuel Johnson and Gale Lucas and Peter Kim and Jonathan Gratch},

url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-23207-8_23},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-23207-8_23},

isbn = {978-3-030-23206-1 978-3-030-23207-8},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-06-01},

booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in Education},

volume = {11626},

pages = {122–127},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham, Switzerland},

abstract = {Intelligent tutoring systems have proven very effective at teaching hard skills such as math and science, but less research has examined how to teach “soft” skills such as negotiation. In this paper, we introduce an effective approach to teaching negotiation tactics. Prior work showed that students can improve through practice with intelligent negotiation agents. We extend this work by proposing general methods of assessment and feedback that could be applied to a variety of such agents. We evaluate these techniques through a human subject study. Our study demonstrates that personalized feedback improves students’ use of several foundational tactics.},

keywords = {Virtual Humans},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{koenig_virtual_2019,

title = {Virtual reality and rehabilitation.},

author = {Sebastian T. Koenig and Denise Krch and Belinda S. Lange and Albert Rizzo},

url = {http://content.apa.org/books/16122-032},

isbn = {978-1-4338-2985-7 978-1-4338-2984-0},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-04-01},

booktitle = {Handbook of rehabilitation psychology (3rd ed.).},

pages = {521–539},

publisher = {American Psychological Association},

address = {Washington, DC},

abstract = {Virtual reality (VR) technology has seen a recent surge in market adoption for video games, movies, broadcasting of live events, and industries such as real estate and health care. This chapter focuses on evidence and technology released within the past 5 years to avoid discussing outdated or discontinued VR systems. It provides a pragmatic overview of VR technology, including its strengths and limitations, recent research and system development, and future perspectives. The widespread appeal of VR in society, untethered hardware, and integration of VR accessories, tracking devices, and psychophysiological monitoring are among the topics that have pushed VR into the spotlight, even in nontraditional VR markets such as rehabilitation psychology. The chapter provides an updated view of VR as a natural fit for clinical use, highlighting key features that can positively impact rehabilitation outcomes and address social and vocational aspects of cognitive rehabilitation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)},

keywords = {MedVR},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}

@incollection{talbot_virtual_2019,

title = {Virtual Standardized Patients for Interactive Conversational Training: A Grand Experiment and New Approach},

author = {Thomas B. Talbot and Albert Skip Rizzo},

url = {http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-7461-3},

doi = {10.4018/978-1-5225-7461-3},

isbn = {978-1-5225-7461-3 978-1-5225-7462-0},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Exploring the Cognitive, Social, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Gaming and Simulations:},

publisher = {IGI Global},

address = {Hershey, PA},

series = {Advances in Game-Based Learning},

abstract = {The USC Standard Patient is a virtual human-based conversational agent serving in the role of a simulated medical patient, also known as a virtual standardized patient (VSP). This research identified deficiencies of extant VSP systems, defined a robust set of requirements, and successfully achieved nearly all of them. Markedly impressive advancements were made in virtual human technology, techniques to apply natural language processing, automated assessment artificial intelligence, and pedagogical design. The effort succeeded with performance parameters of high conversational performance, accurate assessment, and strongly demonstrated user training effect. Although working well within its confined are of expertise, the ability for computers to create authentic mixed initiative conversations remains elusive. This effort leaves behind many lessons for interactive serious games, clinical virtual humans, and conversational virtual human training applications.},

keywords = {MedVR, UARC},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {incollection}

}