Virtual agents as supporting media for scientific presentations

Autor: Dhaval Parmar, Ha Trinh, Everlyne Kimani, Timothy Bickmore, Prasanth Murali, Ameneh Shamekhi

Publikováno v: Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. 15:131-146

The quality of scientific oral presentations is often poor, owing to a number of factors, including public speaking anxiety. We present DynamicDuo, a system that uses an automated, life-sized, animated agent to help inexperienced scientists deliver t

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-020-00350-y

A Sociotechnical Study of a Community-based Rewards Program

Autor: Andrea G. Parker, Ameneh Shamekhi, Farnaz Irannejad Bisafar, Aditya Ponnada

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 1:1-21

Individual empowerment is defined as an increased sense of confidence and control over one's life. Empowerment is critical in low-income communities, and can be facilitated through the development of social, financial and human capital. We present a

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3134690

Health Counseling by Robots: Modalities for Breastfeeding Promotion

Autor: Ameneh Shamekhi, Prasanth Murali, Teresa K. O'Leary, Timothy Bickmore

Publikováno v: RO-MAN

Conversational humanoid robots are being increasingly used for health education and counseling. Prior research provides mixed indications regarding the best modalities to use for these systems, including user inputs spanning completely constrained mu

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ro-man46459.2019.8956342

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Autor: Laura, Rice, JongHun, Sung, Kathleen, Keane, Elizabeth, Peterson, Jacob, Sosnoff, Gary, Farkas, Ann, Swartz, Scott, Strath, Ashraf, Gorgey, Arthur, Berg, David, Gater, Trevor, Dyson-Hudson, Gerard, Malanga, Chris, Cherian, Monica, Michalec, Steven, Kirshblum, Carrie, Miller, Kristin, Garlanger, Sam, Kortes, Alyssa, Schnorenberg, Brooke, Slavens, Kenneth, Lee, Kelsey, Potter-Baker, Frederick, Frost, Ela, Plow, Ryan, Solinsky, Catherine, Wilson, Carrie Ann, Henry, Alexander, Lombard, Matthew, Maher, Joseph, Weir, Sana, Saeed, Christopher, Cirnigliaro, Adam, Specht, Erica, Garbarini, Jonathan, Augustine, Gail, Forrest, William, Bauman, Jill, Wecht, Jasmine, Hearn, Imaduddin S, Razvi, Seema, Sikka, Librada, Callender, Monica, Bennett, Keston, Robertson, Simon, Driver, Cristina, Kline-Quiroz, Jayne, Donovan, Amanda, Botticello, Dannae, Arnold, Nancy, Latham, Bethlyn, Houlihan, Timothy, Bickmore, Ha, Trinh, Ameneh, Shamekhi, Teresa, Ellis, Sherri L, LaVela, Elizabeth, Burkhart, Ibuola, Kale, Charles, Bombardier, Ellen, Snoxell, Steven, Knezevic, EunKyoung, Hong, Pierre, Asselin, Stephen, Kornfeld, Peter, Gorman, Ann, Spungen, Camilo, Castillo, Christine, Cleveland, Joelle, Gabet, Amanda, Harrington, Patricia, Arenth, David, Dolbow, Stephen, Luther, Dezon, Finch, Lina, Bouayad, Marcel, Kopp, Ralf, Watzlawick, Peter, Martus, Vieri, Failli, Felix, Finkenstaedt, Yuying, Chen, Michael, DeVivo, Ulrich, Dirnagl, Jan, Schwab, James, LiMonta, Tiffany, Santiago, Yu-Kuang, Wu, Noam, Harel, Kimberley, Monden, Zina, Trost, Nguyen, Nguyen, Leslie, Morse, Adriel, Boals, Lisa, Wenzel, Stephanie, Silveira, Rosemary, Hughes, Margaret, Nosek, Tracey, LeDoux, Heather, Taylor, Lauren, Diaz, Susan, Robinson-Whelen, Eric, Garshick, Kendra, Betz, James, Krause, Yue, Cao, Chao, Li, Beverly, Hon, Cria-May, Khong, Ben, Dirlikov, Kazuko, Shem, Susan, Charlifue, Shawn, Song, Stephen, Burns

Publikováno v: The journal of spinal cord medicine. 41(5)

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30132748

Face Value? Exploring the Effects of Embodiment for a Group Facilitation Agent

Autor: Q. Vera Liao, Dakuo Wang, Thomas Erickson, Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Ameneh Shamekhi

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

We are interested in increasing the ability of groups to collaborate efficiently by leveraging new advances in AI and Conversational Agent (CA) technology. Given the longstanding debate on the necessity of embodiment for CAs, bringing them to groups

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173965