Dissertation:
Bickmore,
T. (2003) "Relational Agents: Effecting Change through
Human-Computer Relationships" PhD Thesis, Media Arts & Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Journal Articles:
- Bickmore, T., Pfeifer, L., and Paasche-Orlow, M. (2009) Using Computer Agents to Explain Medical Documents to Patients with Low Health Literacy Patient Education and Counseling 75(3), 315-320.
- Bickmore, T., Mauer, D., and Brown, T. (2009) Context Awareness in a Handheld Exercise Agent Pervasive and Mobile Computing special issue on Pervasive Health and Wellness, Vol 5, 226-235.
- Bickmore, T., Pfeifer, L. and Yin, L. (2008) "The Role of Gesture in Document Explanation by Embodied Conversational Agents", International Journal of Semantic Computing, Vol. 2, No. 1, 47–70 .
- Bickmore, T. and Giorgino, T. (2006)
“Health Dialog Systems for Patients and Consumers” Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 39(5): 556-571.
- Bickmore, T., Caruso, L., Clough-Gorr, K.,
and Heeren, T. (2005) “’It’s just like you talk to
a friend’ – Relational Agents for Older Adults” Interacting with Computers, 17(6): 711-735.
- Bickmore, T., Gruber, A., and Picard, R. (2005) "Establishing the Computer-Patient Working Alliance in
Automated Health Behavior Change Interventions" Patient Education
and Counseling, 59(1): 21-30.
- Bickmore, T. and Picard, R. (2005)
"Establishing and Maintaining Long-Term Human-Computer
Relationships" ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction
(ToCHI), 59(1): 21-30.
- Bickmore, T. (2004) "Unspoken Rules of
Spoken Interaction" Communications of the ACM, 47(4): 38-44.
- Cassell, J. and Bickmore, T. (2003)
"Negotiated Collusion: Modeling Social Language and
its Relationship Effects in Intelligent Agents" User Modeling
and User-Adaptive Interaction 13(1): 89-132.
- Cassell, J. and Bickmore, T. (2001) “External
Manifestations of Trustworthiness in the Interface”, Communications of
the ACM 43(12).
- Cassell,
J., Bickmore, T., Vilhjalmsson, H., Yan, H. (2001) "More Than Just a
Pretty Face: Conversational Protocols and the Affordances of
Embodiment." Knowledge-Based Systems 14, 45-64.
Book Chapters:
- Bickmore, T. (in press) "Relational Agents for Chronic Disease Self Management" in B. Hayes and W. Aspray (eds.), The Informatics of Diabetes.
- Tim Bickmore, Justine
Cassell (in press) "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.
- Justine
Cassell, Timothy Bickmore, Lee Campbell, Hannes Vilhjálmsson and Hao Yan.
"Conversation as a System Framework: Designing Embodied
Conversational Agents." Embodied Conversational Agents,
Justine Cassell, Scott Prevost, Elizabeth Churchill, Joe Sullivan
(editors). MIT Press, 1999.
- Justine
Cassell, Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Kenny Chang, Timothy Bickmore, Lee Campbell,
and Hao Yan. "Requirements for an Architecture for Embodied
Conversational Characters." Computer Animation and Simulation '99
(Eurographics Series). Vienna, Austria: Springer Verlag. 1999.
Conference Papers:
- Bickmore, T., Pfeifer, L., and Jack, B. (2009) Taking the Time to Care: Empowering Low Health Literacy Hospital Patients with Virtual Nurse Agents Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Boston, MA.
- Bickmore, T., Schulman, D., Sidner, C. (2009) Issues in Designing Agents for Long Term Behavior Change CHI'09 Workshop on Engagement by Design.
- Bickmore, T. and Pfeifer, L., Schulman, D., Perera, S., Senanayake, C. and Nazmi, I. (2008) "Public Displays of Affect: Deploying Relational Agents in Public Spaces" CHI'08 Extended Abstracts.
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Bickmore, T. and Pfeifer, L. (2008) "Relational Agents for Antipsychotic Medication Adherence" CHI'08 workshop on Technology in Mental Health.
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Schulman, D., Sharma, M., and Bickmore, T. (2008) "The Identification of Users by Relational Agents" Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) '08.
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Bickmore, T., Mauer, D., Crespo, F., Brown, T. (2008) "Negotiating Task Interruptions with Virtual Agents for Health Behavior Change" Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) '08.
- Bickmore, T., Pfeifer, L., and Paasche-Orlow, M. (2007) “Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents” Intelligent Virtual Agents '07, Paris.
- Bickmore, T., Mauer, D., and Brown, T. (2007) “Context Awareness in Mobile Relational Agents” Intelligent Virtual Agents '07, Paris.
- Bickmore, T., Mauer, D., Crespo, F., and Brown, T. (2007) “Persuasion, Task Interruption and Health Regimen Adherence” Persuasive Technology '07, Stanford, CA.
- Bickmore, T. (2007) “What Would Jiminy Cricket Do? Lessons From the First Social Wearable” HCI International '07, Beijing, China.
- Bickmore, T. and Schulman, D. (2007) “Practical Approaches to Comforting Users with Relational Agents” ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), San Jose, CA.
- Bickmore, T. and Sidner, C. L. (2006) “Towards Plan-based Health Behavior Change Counseling Systems” AAAI Spring Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare, Stanford, CA.
- Bickmore, T. and Schulman, D.
(2006) “The Comforting Presence of Relational Agents.”
Proceedings of CHI 2006.
- Bickmore, T. and Mauer, D. (2006)
“Modalities for Building Relationships with Handheld Computer Agents.”
Proceedings of CHI 2006.
- Bickmore, T., Caruso, L. and Clough-Gorr, K.
(2005) "Acceptance and Usability of a Relational Agent Interface by
Urban Older Adults." Proceedings of CHI 2005 Conference.
- Bickmore, T. and Picard, R. (2004).
"Towards Caring Machines." Proceedings of CHI 2004 Conference.
- Bickmore, T. and Picard, R. (2003).
"Subtle Expressivity by Relational Agents." Proceedings of the
CHI 2003 Workshop on Subtle Expressivity for Characters and Robots. April
7th, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
- Bickmore, T. (2002). "When
Etiquette Really Matters: Relational Agents and Behavior Change."
Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Etiquette for Human-Computer
Work, November 15-17, Falmouth, MA.
- Timothy Bickmore and Justine Cassell,
"Phone vs. Face-to-Face with Virtual Persons." International
CLASS Workshop on Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in
Multimodal Dialogue Systems, (to appear).
- Bickmore, T. (2002)
"Social Dialogue is Serious Business." CHI 2002 Workshop on
Socially Adept Technologies.
- Bickmore, T. (2002) "Towards the Design
of Multimodal Interfaces for Handheld Conversational Characters." CHI
2002 Conference.
- Justine Cassell, Yukiko Nakano, Timothy
Bickmore, Candace Sidner, Charles Rich. "Non-verbal cues for
discourse structure." Association for Computational Linguistics
Joint EACL - ACL Conference, 2001.
- Justine Cassell, Hannes Vilhjálmsson
and Timothy Bickmore. "BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation
Toolkit." SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference.
- Justine Cassell, Yukiko Nakano, Timothy
Bickmore, Candace Sidner, and Charles Rich. "Annotating and
Generating Posture from Discourse Structure in Embodied Conversational
Agents." Workshop on Representing, Annotating, and Evaluating
Non-Verbal and Verbal Communicative Acts to Achieve Contextual
Embodied Agents, Autonomous Agents 2001 Conference, Montreal, Quebec. May
29th, 2001.
- Timothy Bickmore and Justine Cassell.
"Relational Agents: A Model and Implementation of Building User
Trust". CHI 2001 Conference Proceedings.
- Timothy Bickmore and Justine Cassell.
"How about this weather? Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational
Agents." to appear in Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on
Socially Intelligent Agents, 2000.
- Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Vilhjálmsson, H.,
and Yan, H. "More Than Just a Pretty Face: Affordances of
Embodiment" in Proceedings of 2000 International Conference on
Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000.
- Cassell, J., Ananny, M., Basu, A., Bickmore,
T., Chong, P., Mellis, D., Ryokai, K., Smith, J., Vilhjálmsson, H., Yan,
H. "Shared Reality: Physical Collaboration with a Virtual Peer."
CHI 2000 Conference Proceedings, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2000.
- Timothy Bickmore and Justine Cassell.
"Small Talk and Conversational Storytelling In Embodied Interface
Agents," Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Narrative
Intelligence, 1999.
- Justine Cassell, Timothy Bickmore, Mark
Billinghurst, Lee Campbell, Kenny Chang, Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Hao Yan,
"Embodiment in Conversational Interfaces: Rea", in Proceedings
of CHI99, 1999.
- Justine Cassell, Timothy Bickmore, Mark
Billinghurst, Lee Campbell, Kenny Chang, Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Hao Yan,
"An Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters",
in Proceedings of the First Workshop on Embodied Conversational
Characters, 1998.
- Scott Prevost, Timothy Bickmore and
Justine Cassell. "Interactional Competency for Conversational
Characters." AAAI Workshop on Representations for Multi-Modal
Human-Computer Interaction, 1998.
- Timothy Bickmore, Linda Cook, Elizabeth
Churchill, and Joseph Sullivan. "Animated Autonomous Personal
Representatives." Proceedings of the Second International
Conference on Autonomous Agents (Minneapolis, MN), 1998, pp 8-15.
- Sara Bly, Linda Cook, Timothy Bickmore,
Elizabeth Churchill, and Josepth W Sullivan. "The Rise of Personal
Web Pages at Work." CHI 98 Summary, ACM Press, 1998, pp.
313-314.
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