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Open collaborative writing with Manubot
Open collaborative writing with Manubot
Daniel S. Himmelstein, Vincent Rubinetti, David R. Slochower, Dongbo Hu, Venkat S. Malladi, Casey S. Greene, Anthony Gitter
PLOS Computational Biology  ·  04 Dec 2020  ·  doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007128
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2024

Exploring the Potential of Virtual Agents in Atrial Fibrillation Management: Insights from a Randomized Trial
Exploring the Potential of Virtual Agents in Atrial Fibrillation Management: Insights from a Randomized Trial
Mina Fallah, Timothy Bickmore, Stefan Olafsson, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Andrew Joseph Mrkva, Jared W. Magnani
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  16 Sep 2024  ·  doi:10.1145/3652988.3673955

2023

Conversational Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Virtual Agents
Conversational Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Virtual Agents
Emily E. Hurstak, Stefan Olafsson, Teresa K. O’Leary, Howard J. Cabral, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Timothy Bickmore
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  19 Sep 2023  ·  doi:10.1145/3570945.3607314
Accomodating User Expressivity while Maintaining Safety for a Virtual Alcohol Misuse Counselor
Accomodating User Expressivity while Maintaining Safety for a Virtual Alcohol Misuse Counselor
Stefan Olafsson, Paola Pedrelli, Byron C. Wallace, Timothy Bickmore
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  19 Sep 2023  ·  doi:10.1145/3570945.3607361

2022

We Never Stop Behaving: The Challenge of Specifying andIntegrating Continuous Behavior
We Never Stop Behaving: The Challenge of Specifying andIntegrating Continuous Behavior
Workshop on Architectures and Standards for IVAs at the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Starting a conversation with strangers in Virtual Reykjavik: Explicit announcement of presence
Starting a conversation with strangers in Virtual Reykjavik: Explicit announcement of presence
Proceedings from the 3rd European Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Dublin, September 17-18, 2015  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Learning Icelandic language and culture in Virtual Reykjavik: starting to talk
Learning Icelandic language and culture in Virtual Reykjavik: starting to talk
CALL communities and culture--short papers from EUROCALL  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Increasing engagement with virtual agents using automatic camera motion
Increasing engagement with virtual agents using automatic camera motion
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
That s a Rap: Increasing Engagement with Rap Music Performance by Virtual Agents
That’s a Rap: Increasing Engagement with Rap Music Performance by Virtual Agents
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Virtual Counselor for Patients in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use
Virtual Counselor for Patients in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use
GREATS18 at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Looking the part: The effect of attire and setting on perceptions of a virtual health counselor
Looking the part: The effect of attire and setting on perceptions of a virtual health counselor
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on intelligent virtual agents  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Can the Use of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant for Medical Information Result in Patient Harm
Can the Use of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant for Medical Information Result in Patient Harm?
JCOM  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Towards a Computational Framework for Automating Substance Use Counseling with Virtual Agents.
Towards a Computational Framework for Automating Substance Use Counseling with Virtual Agents.
AAMAS  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Navigating the Combinatorics of Virtual Agent Design Space to Maximize Persuasion
Navigating the Combinatorics of Virtual Agent Design Space to Maximize Persuasion
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Motivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents
Motivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents
Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents
Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents
Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
More like a person than reading text in a machine : Characterizing User Choice of Embodied Agents vs. Conventional GUIs on Smartphones
‘More like a person than reading text in a machine’: Characterizing User Choice of Embodied Agents vs. Conventional GUIs on Smartphones
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Diversity Informatics: Reducing Racial and Gender Bias with Virtual Agents.
Diversity Informatics: Reducing Racial and Gender Bias with Virtual Agents.
21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Black Men s Experiences With Health care: Individuals Accounts of Challenges, Suggestions for Change, and the Potential Utility of Virtual Agent Technology to Assist Black Men With Health Management
Black Men’s Experiences With Health care: Individuals’ Accounts of Challenges, Suggestions for Change, and the Potential Utility of Virtual Agent Technology to Assist Black Men With Health Management
Qualitative Health Research  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
A Hybrid Structured-Neural Dialog System for Automated Counseling
A Hybrid Structured-Neural Dialog System for Automated Counseling
[no publisher info]  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Techno-spiritual Engagement: Mechanisms for Improving Uptake of mHealth Apps Designed for Church Members
Techno-spiritual Engagement: Mechanisms for Improving Uptake of mHealth Apps Designed for Church Members
[no publisher info]  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Designing empathic virtual agents: manipulating animation, voice, rendering, and empathy to create persuasive agents
Designing empathic virtual agents: manipulating animation, voice, rendering, and empathy to create persuasive agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Design and rationale of the Mobile health intervention for rural atrial fibrillation
Design and rationale of the Mobile health intervention for rural atrial fibrillation
American Heart Journal  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]
Community Dynamics in Technospiritual Interventions: Lessons Learned from a Church-based mHealth Pilot
Community Dynamics in Technospiritual Interventions: Lessons Learned from a Church-based mHealth Pilot
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems  ·  24 Aug 2022  ·  [no id info]

2021

Mitigating Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: Exploratory Mixed Methods Experiment
Mitigating Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: Exploratory Mixed Methods Experiment
Timothy W Bickmore, Stefán Ólafsson, Teresa K O’Leary
Journal of Medical Internet Research  ·  09 Nov 2021  ·  doi:10.2196/30704
Mitigating Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: Exploratory Mixed Methods Experiment Preprint
Mitigating Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: Exploratory Mixed Methods Experiment (Preprint)
Timothy W Bickmore, Stefán Ólafsson, Teresa K O’Leary
JMIR Publications Inc.  ·  26 May 2021  ·  doi:10.2196/preprints.30704

2020

Open collaborative writing with Manubot
Open collaborative writing with Manubot
Daniel S. Himmelstein, Vincent Rubinetti, David R. Slochower, Dongbo Hu, Venkat S. Malladi, Casey S. Greene, Anthony Gitter
PLOS Computational Biology  ·  04 Dec 2020  ·  doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007128
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Constructing knowledge graphs and their biomedical applications
Constructing knowledge graphs and their biomedical applications
David N. Nicholson, Casey S. Greene
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal  ·  01 Jan 2020  ·  doi:10.1016/j.csbj.2020.05.017

2018

Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant
Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant
Timothy W Bickmore, Ha Trinh, Stefan Olafsson, Teresa K O’Leary, Reza Asadi, Nathaniel M Rickles, Ricardo Cruz
Journal of Medical Internet Research  ·  04 Sep 2018  ·  doi:10.2196/11510
Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Preprint
Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant (Preprint)
Timothy W. Bickmore, Ha Trinh, Stefan Olafsson, Teresa K O’Leary, Reza Asadi, Nathaniel M Rickles, Ricardo Cruz
JMIR Publications Inc.  ·  09 Jul 2018  ·  doi:10.2196/preprints.11510
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Daniel S Himmelstein, Ariel Rodriguez Romero, Jacob G Levernier, Thomas Anthony Munro, Stephen Reid McLaughlin, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Casey S Greene
eLife  ·  01 Mar 2018  ·  doi:10.7554/eLife.32822
Safety First: Conversational Agents for Health Care
Safety First: Conversational Agents for Health Care
Timothy Bickmore, Ha Trinh, Reza Asadi, Stefan Olafsson
Human–Computer Interaction Series  ·  01 Jan 2018  ·  doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95579-7_3