TOPICS :
- Architectures
- Authorable Virtual Peers
- Autism
- Computational Models of Behavior
- Computer Games
- Conversation
- Culture
- Dialect
- Direction-Giving
- Education
- Embodied Conversational Agents
- Evaluation
- Gender
- Gesture
- Implementation
- Leadership
- Literacy
- Machine Learning
- MOOCs
- Multimodal
- Narrative
- Natural Language Generation (NLG)
- Online Communities
- Peer-Tutoring
- Peers
- Rapport
- Social Skills
- Storytelling and Storylistening
- Survey Interviewing
- Trust
- Verbal and Nonverbal
- Virtual Peers
Socially interactive agents as peers
Cassell, J. (2022). Socially interactive agents as peers. In B. Lugrin, C. Pelachaud & D. Traum (Eds.), Handbook on socially interactive agents: 20 years of research on embodied conversational agents, intelligent virtual agents, and social robotics (vol. 2). ACM.
Artificial intelligence for a social world
Cassell, J. (2019). Artificial intelligence for a social world. Issues in Science and Technology, 35(4), 29-36.
Faster responses are better responses: Introducing incrementality into sociable virtual personal assistants
Tsai, V., Baumann, T., Pecune, F., & Cassell, J. (2019). Faster responses are better responses: Introducing incrementality into sociable virtual personal assistants. In 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology (pp. 111-118). Springer, Singapore.
Field Trial Analysis of Socially-Aware Robot Assistant
Pecune, F., Chen, J., Matsuyama, Y., & Cassell, J. (2018, July). Field Trial Analysis of Socially Aware Robot Assistant. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1241-1249). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
Faster Responses are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants
Tsai, V., Baumann, T., Pecune, F., & Cassell, J. (2018). Faster Responses are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology.
“I think it might help if we multiply, and not add” : Detecting Indirectness in Conversation
Pranav Goel, Yoichi Matsuyama, Michael Madaio and Justine Cassell, International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS 2018) (in press).
“I Think You Just Got Mixed Up”: Confident Peer Tutors Hedge to Support Partners’ Face Needs
Madaio, M., Cassell, J., & Ogan, A. (2017). “I think you just got mixed up”: confident peer tutors hedge to support partners’ face needs. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 4(12), 401-421.
Using Temporal Association Rule Mining to Predict Dyadic Rapport in Peer Tutoring
Madaio, M., Ogan, A., Cassell, J. (2017). Using Temporal Association Rule Mining to Predict Dyadic Rapport in Peer Tutoring. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2017. (in press).
Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent
Matsuyama, M., Bhardwaj, A., Zhao, R., Romero, O., Akoju, S., Cassell, J. (2016, September). Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent, 17th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Accessing Peer Social Interaction: Using Authorable Virtual Peer Technology as a Component of a Group Social Skills Intervention Program.
Tartaro, A., Cassell, J., Ratz, C., Lira, J., Nanclares-Nogues, V. (2015) “Accessing Peer Social Interaction: Using Authorable Virtual Peer Technology as a Component of a Group Social Skills Intervention Program.” ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), 6, 1, Article 2, 29 pages.
Towards a Computational Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents. In Bickmore, Sidner & Marsella (eds.)
Papangelis, A., Zhao, R., Cassell, J. (2014) “Towards a Computational Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents. In Bickmore, Sidner & Marsella (eds.)” Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8637, pp. 320-324.
Towards a Dyadic Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction
Zhao, R., Papangelis, A., Cassell, J. (2014), “Towards a Dyadic Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction. In Bickmore, Sidner & Marsella (eds.)” Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8637, pp. 514-527.
Modeling ethnicity into technology: Using virtual agents to understand sociolinguistic variation
Finkelstein, S., Yarzebinski, E., Vaughn, C., Cassell, J. (2013) “Modeling ethnicity into technology: Using virtual agents to understand sociolinguistic variation”. in Proceedings of NWAV 42,, Oct 17- 20, 2013, Pittsburgh, PA.
The effects of culturally-congruent educational technologies on student achievement
Finkelstein, S., Yarzebinski, E., Vaughn, C., Ogan, A., Cassell, J. (2013) “The effects of culturally-congruent educational technologies on student achievement”. in Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).,July 09-13 2013, Memphis, TN. (Conference Best Paper Award Winner)
Alex: A Virtual Peer that Identifies Student Dialect
Finkelstein, S., Ogan, A., Vaughn, C., & Cassell, J. (2013) “Alex: A Virtual Peer that Identifies Student Dialect”. in Proceedings of Workshop on Culturally-Aware Technology Enhanced Learning, Paphos, Cyprus.
Investigating the Influence of Virtual Peers as Dialect Models on Students’ Prosodic Inventory
Finkelstein, S., Scherer, S., Ogan, A., Morency, L.P., Cassell, J. (2012) “Investigating the Influence of Virtual Peers as Dialect Models on Students’ Prosodic Inventory”. in Proceedings of WOCCI (Workshop on Child-Computer Interfaces) at INTERSPEECH 2013, September 14-15, 2012, Portland, OR.
Oh Dear Stacy! Social Interaction, Elaboration, and Learning with Teachable Agents
Ogan, A., Finkelstein, S., Mayfield, E., Matsuda, N., Cassell, J. (2012) “Oh Dear Stacy! Social Interaction, Elaboration, and Learning with Teachable Agents” in Proceedings of CHI 2012, May 5-10, 2010, Austin, TX. [PDF]
Rudeness and rapport: Insults and learning gains in peer tutoring
Finkelstein, S., Ogan, A., Walker, E., Muller, R., Cassell, J. (2012) “Rudeness and rapport: Insults and learning gains in peer tutoring” in Proceedings of ntelligent Tutoring Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Brick by Brick: Iterating Interventions to Bridge the Achievement Gap with Virtual Peers
Rader, E., Echelbarger, M. Cassell, J. (2011) “Brick by Brick: Iterating Interventions to Bridge the Achievement Gap with Virtual Peers” in Proceedings of the CHI’11 Conference, May 9-12, Vancouver, BC
The Role of Embodiment and Perspective in Direction-Giving Systems
Hasegawa, D., Cassell, J., Araki, K. (2010) “The Role of Embodiment and Perspective in Direction-Giving Systems” in Proceedings of AAAI Fall Workshop on Dialog with Robots. Nov 11-13, Arlington, VA
Modeling Culturally Authentic Style Shifting with Virtual Peers
Cassell, J., Geraghty, K., Gonzalez, B., Borland, J. (2009) “Modeling Culturally Authentic Style Shifting with Virtual Peers” in Proceedings of ICMI-MLMI. Nov. 2-6, Cambridge, MA [PDF]
Playing with Virtual Peers: Bootstrapping Contingent Discourse in Children with Autism
Tartaro, A. & Cassell, J. (2008). “Playing with Virtual Peers: Bootstrapping Contingent Discourse in Children with Autism” Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), June 24-28, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human
Cassell, Justine (2007) “Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human”. In J. Riskin (ed.) Genesis Redux : Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence . Chicago: University of Chicago Press., pp 346-374.
Ethnic Identity and Engagement in Embodied Conversational Agents
Iacobelli, F. & Cassell, J. (2007). “Ethnic Identity and Engagement in Embodied Conversational Agents” Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Sept. 17-19, Paris, France.
Trading Spaces: How Humans and Humanoids use Speech and Gesture to Give Directions
Cassell, Justine, Kopp, Stefan, Tepper, Paul, Ferriman, Kim & Striegnitz, K . (2007) “Trading Spaces: How Humans and Humanoids use Speech and Gesture to Give Directions.” In T. Nishida (ed.) Conversational Informatics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 133-160
Is it Self-Administration if the Computer Gives you Encouraging Looks?
Cassell, Justine & Miller, Peter (2007) “Is it Self-Administration if the Computer Gives you Encouraging Looks?” In F.G. Conrad & M.F. Schober (Eds.), Envisioning the Survey Interview of the Future. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 161-178.
Intersubjectivity in Human-Agent Interaction
Cassell, J., Tartaro, A. (2008) Intersubjectivity in Human-Agent Interaction. Interaction Studies 8 (3): 391-410
Towards Integrated Microplanning of Language and Iconic Gesture for Multimodal Output
Kopp, Stefan, Tepper, Paul and Cassell, Justine. (2004). “Towards Integrated Microplanning of Language and Iconic Gesture for Multimodal Output.”Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2004. Oct. 14-15, Penn State University, State College, PA.
Authorable Virtual Peers for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Tartaro, A., & Cassell, J. (2006). “Authorable Virtual Peers for Autism Spectrum Disorders.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Language-Enabled Educational Technology at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI06), August 28-31, Riva del Garda, Italy.
Using Virtual Peer Technology as an Intervention for Children with Autism
Tartaro, A., & Cassell, J. (2006). “Using Virtual Peer Technology as an Intervention for Children with Autism”. Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., pp. 231-262
Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational Agents
Bickmore, T., Cassell, J. (2005) “Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational Agents” In J. van Kuppevelt, L. Dybkjaer, & N. Bernsen (eds.), Advances in Natural, Multimodal Dialogue Systems. New York: Kluwer Academic.
Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational Agents
Bickmore, T., Cassell, J. (2004) “Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational Agents”In J. van Kuppevelt, L. Dybkjaer, and N. Bernsen (eds.), Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction with Multimodal Dialogue Systems. New York: Kluwer Academic.
Sam Goes to School: Story Listening Systems in the Classroom
Kehoe, C., Cassell, J., Goldman, S., Dai, J., Gouldstone, I., MacLeod, S., O’Day, T., Pandolfo, A., Ryokai, K., Wang, A. (2004) “Sam Goes to School: Story Listening Systems in the Classroom”International Conference for the Learning Sciences.
Content in Context: Generating Language and Iconic Gesture without a Gestionary
Tepper, P., Kopp, S., Cassell, J. (2004) “Content in Context: Generating Language and Iconic Gesture without a Gestionary”Proceedings of the Workshop on Balanced Perception and Action in ECAs at AAMAS ’04.
Virtual Peers as Partners in Storytelling and Literacy Learning
Ryokai, K., Vaucelle, C., Cassell, J. (2003) “Virtual Peers as Partners in Storytelling and Literacy Learning”Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 19(2): 195-208
Negotiated Collusion: Modeling Social Language and its Relationship Effects in Intelligent Agents
Cassell, J., Bickmore, T. (2003) “Negotiated Collusion: Modeling Social Language and its Relationship Effects in Intelligent Agents”User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 13(1-2): 89-132
Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding
Nakano, Y., Reinstein, G., Stocky, T., Cassell, J. (2003) “Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding”Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. July 7-12, Sapporo, Japan.