SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (entire CV here)

Bonnaire, J., Dumas, G., & Cassell, J. (2024). Bringing together multimodal and multilevel approaches to study the emergence of social bonds between children and improve social AI. In Frontiers in Neuroergonomics Vol. 5 (2024.[[PDF]

Abulimiti, A., Clavel, C. & Cassell, J. (2023). When to Generate Hedges in Peer Tutoring Interactions. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). Association for Computational Linguistics..[[PDF]

Abulimiti, A., Clavel, C. & Cassell, J. (2023). How About Kind of Generating Hedges using End-to-End Neural Models? In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 877-892. Association for Computational Linguistics..[[PDF]

Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., Rasenberg, M., Albert, S., Ameka, F.K., Birhane, A., Bolis, D., Cassell, J., Clift, R., Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Novaes, C.D., Enfield, N.J., Fusaroli, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Hutchins, E., Konvalinka, I., Milton, D, Rączaszek-Leonardi, J., Reddy, V., Rossano, F., Schlangen, D., Seibt, J., Stokoe, E., Suchman, L., Vesper, C., Wheatley, T. & Wiltschko, M. (2023) "Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences". In Cognitive Science 47 (2023) e13230.[[PDF]

Clavel C., Labeau M. & Cassell J. (2022). "Socio-conversational systems: Three challenges at the crossroads of fields. In Frontiers in Robotics and AI.[[PDF]

Raphalen, Y., Clavel, C. & Cassell, J. (2022). "You might think about slightly revising the title": identifying hedges in peer-tutoring interactions. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), (Volume 1: Long Papers).[[PDF]

Cassell, J. (2022). Socially Interactive Agents as Peers. In The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 2. Lugrin, Pelachaud, Traum (eds.). ACM Press, New York.[[PDF]

Sinha, T., Bai, Z., Cassell, J. (2021). A Novel Multimodal Approach for Studying the Dynamics of Curiosity in Group Learning. [ArXiv]

Cassell, J. (2020) The ties that bind: Social interaction in conversational agents. Réseaux 2020/2 (No 220-221) , p. 21-45. [[PDF] (French version available [here)

Pecune,F.,Murali,S., Tsai,V., Matsuyama,Y., & Cassell,J. (2019) A Model of Social Explanations for a Conversational Movie Recommendation System, In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, pp. 135-143. ACM, [PDF] best paper award

Madaio, M., Kamath, V., Yarzebinski, E., Zasacky, S., Tanoh, F., Hannon-Cropp, J., Cassell, J., Jasinska, K., & Ogan, A. (2019). 'You Give a Little of Yourself': Family Support for Children's Use of an IVR Literacy System. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (pp. 86-98).[PDF]] (Best paper award)

Jain, A., Pecune, F., Matsuyama, Y., & Cassell, J. (2018, November). A User Simulator Architecture for Socially-Aware Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 133-140). ACM.[[PDF]

Pecune, F., Chen, J., Matsuyama, Y., & Cassell, J. (2018). Field Trial Analysis of Socially Aware Robot Assistant. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS). [PDF]

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 (IWSDS). [PDF]

Paranjape, B., Bai, Z., Cassell, J. (2018). Predicting the temporal and social dynamics of curiosity in small group learning. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). [PDF]

Goel, P., Matsuyama, Y., Madaio, M., Cassell, J. (2018). I think it might help if we multiply, and not add. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS), pp.27-40. [PDF]

Zhao, Z., Madaio, M., Pecune, F., Matsuyama, Y., & Cassell, J. (2018). Socially-Conditioned Task Reasoning for a Virtual Tutoring Agent. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). [PDF]

Madaio, M., Peng, K., Ogan, A., & Cassell, J. (2017). A climate of support: a process-oriented analysis of the impact of rapport on peer tutoring. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). [PDF] Best paper award

Romero, O., Zhao,R., & Cassell, J.(2017). Cognitive-inspired conversational-strategy reasoner for socially-aware agents. In Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'17), Carles Sierra (Ed.). AAAI Press 3807-3813.[[PDF]

Martin, K. B., Hammal, Z., Ren, G., Cohn, J. F., Cassell, J., Ogihara, M., Britton, J. C., Gutierrez, A., Messinger, D. S. (2018). Objective measurement of head movement differences in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism Brain, Cognition and Behavior, 9, 14. [PDF]

Madaio, M., Cassell, J., & Ogan, A. (2017). I think you just got mixed up: confident peer tutors hedge to support partners' face needs. In International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (Volume 12, Issue 4, pp 401-421). Springer International Publishing. [PDF]

Sinha, T., Bai, Z., Cassell, J. (2017). A New Theoretical Framework for Curiosity for Learning in Social Contexts. In proceedings of 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2017). Lavoué, Drachsler, Verbert, Broisin, Pérez-Sanagustin (Eds). Springer, Cham. pp. 254-269 [PDF]

Sinha, T., Bai, Z., Cassell, J. (2017). Curious Minds Wonder Alike: Studying Multimodal Behavioral Dynamics to Design Social Scaffolding of Curiosity. In Proceedings of 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2017). Lavoué, Drachsler, Verbert, Broisin, Pérez-Sanagustin (Eds). Springer, Cham. pp. 270-285 [PDF]

Hongliang, Y., Liangke, G., Madaio, M., Ogan, M., Cassell, J., Morency, L.P. (2017). Temporally Selective Attention Model for Social and Affective State Recognition in Multimedia Content. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGMM Multimedia Conference (ACM SIGMM 2017). [PDF]

Romero, O., Zhao, R., Cassell, J. (2017). Cognitive-Inspired Conversational-Strategy Reasoner for Socially-Aware Agents. In Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017). [PDF]

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 (EDM 2017). (2017). [PDF]

Madaio, M. A., Cassell, J., & Ogan, A. (2017). The Impact of Peer Tutors' Use of Indirect Feedback and Instructions (best student paper nominee). In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), June 18-22 2017, Philadelphia, PA [PDF]

4. Tartaro, A. & Cassell, J. (2016) Developing Reciprocity With Technology and Storytelling: The Design of an Authorable Virtual Peer for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. in S. Douglas (editor). Children's Play, Pretense and Story: Studies in Culture, Context and ASD. Routledge Press, pp. 72-95. [PDF]

Madaio, M. A., Ogan, A., & Cassell, J. (2016). The Effect of Friendship and Tutoring Roles on Reciprocal Peer Tutoring Strategies. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS '16). A. Micarelli, J. Stamper, K. Panourgia (Eds.). Springer Verlag, London UK: pp. 423-429. [PDF]

Matsuyama, M., Bhardwaj, A., Zhao, R., Romero, O., Akoju, S., Cassell, J. (2016). A Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent. In Proceedings of the 17th annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Sep 13-15 2016, Los Angeles, CA. [PDF]

Zhao, R., Sinha, T., Black, A., & Cassell, J. (2016). Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior.In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '16). D. Traum, W. Swartout, P. Khooshabeh, S. Kopp, S. Scherer, A. Leuski (Eds.) Springer-Verlag, Los Angeles, CA: pp. 218-233. [PDF] Best Student Paper.

Zhao, R., Sinha, T., Black, A., & Cassell, J. (2016). Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Sep 13-15 2016, Los Angeles, CA. [PDF]

Sinha, T., Zhao, R., & Cassell, J. (2015). Exploring Socio-Cognitive Effects of Conversational Strategy Congruence in Peer Tutoring. In Proceedings of 2015 Workshop on Modeling Interpersonal Synchrony, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal. [PDF]

Sinha, T. & Cassell, J. (2015). We Click, We Align, We Learn: Impact of Influence and Convergence Processes on Student Learning and Rapport Building. In Proceedings of 2015 Workshop on Modeling Interpersonal Synchrony, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). ACM. [PDF]

Sinha, T. & Cassell J. (2015), Connecting the Dots: Predicting Student Grade Sequences from Bursty MOOC Interactions over Time In Proceedings of 2nd ACM conference on Learning@Scale. Mar 14-18 2015, New York, NY. [PDF]

Sinha, T. & Cassell, J. (2015) "Fine-grained Analyses of Interpersonal Processes and Their Effect on Learning." in Conati et al. (Eds.) In Proceedings of Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (AIED 2015), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 9112 pp. 781-785. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

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. [PDF

Yu, Z., Scherer, S., Devault, D., Gratch, J., Stratou, G., Morency, L. and Cassell, J. (2013) Multimodal Prediction of Psychological Disorder: Learning Verbal and Nonverbal Commonality in Adjacency Pairs. In Proceedings of the 17th Workshop Series on the semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Dec 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [PDF]

Yu, Z., Gerritsen, D., Ogan, A., Black, A., & Cassell, J. (2013) Automatic Prediction of Friendship via Multi-model Dyadic Features. In Proceedings of the 14th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Aug 22-24 2013, Metz, France. [PDF]

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. [PDF] (best paper)

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. [PDF]

Finkelstein, S., Yarzebinski, E., Vaughn, C., & Cassell, J. (2013) "Modeling ethnicity in/with technology: Using virtual agents to understand sociolinguistic variation." in Proceedings of NWAV 42,, Oct 17- 20, 2013, Pittsburgh, PA. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

Wang, W., Finkelstein, S., Ogan, A., Black, A., & Cassell, J. (2012) "Love Ya Jerkface!": using sparse log-linear models to build positive (and impolite) relationships with teens. In Proceedings of the 13th annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2012), July 5-6, Seoul, Korea. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

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]

Rader, E., Echelbarger, M. Cassell, J. (2011) Brick by Brick: Iterating Interventions to Bridge the Achievement Gap with Virtual Peers. n Proceedings of the CHI'11 Conference, May 9-12, Vancouver, BC [PDF]

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 [PDF]

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]

Cassell, J. (2009) Culture as Social Practice: Being Enculturated in Human-Computer Interaction in C. Stephanidis (Ed.) Proceedings of HCII, (published as Universal Access in HCI, Part III. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag), pp. 303-313. [PDF]

Koller, A., Striegnitz, K., Byron, D., Cassell, J., Dale, R., Dalzel-Job, S., Oberlander, J., Moore, J. (2009) Validating the Web-Based Evaluation of NLG Systems. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Aug 2-7, Singapore. [PDF]

Striegnitz, K., Tepper, P., Lovett, A. & Cassell, J. (2008) Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions. In K.R. Coventry, T. Tenbrink & J. Bateman (Eds.), Spatial Language and Dialogue (Explorations in Language and Space).  Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF]

Baker, R., Gill, A. & Cassell, J. (2008). "Reactive Redundancy and Listener Comprehension in Direction-Giving" Proceedings of SIGDIAL, June 19-20, Columbus, Ohio. [PDF]

Jenkins, Henry & Cassell, Justine (2008) "From Quake Grrls to Desperate Housewives: A Decade of Gender and Computer Games." Y. Kafai, C. Heeter, J. Denner, & J. Sun (eds.) Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

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. [PDF]

Cassell, Justine & Cramer, Meg (2007) "Hi Tech or High Risk? Moral Panics about Girls Online" In T. MacPherson (Ed.) Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected: The MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 53-75 [PDF]

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 [PDF]

Cassell, J., Tartaro, A. (2007) Intersubjectivity in Human-Agent Interaction. Interaction Studies 8 (3): 391-410 . [PDF]

Iacobelli, F. & Cassell, J. (2007). Ethnic Identity and Engagement in Embodied Conversational Agents” Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Sept. 17-19, Paris, France. [PDF]

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. [PDF:MS] [PDF: PUB]

Cassell, J., Gill, A. & Tepper, P. (2007) Coordination in Conversation and Rapport. Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied Natural Language, Association for Computational Linguistics . June 24-29, Prague, CZ. [PDF]

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 [PDF]

Cassell, Justine, Huffaker, David, Tversky, Dona & Ferriman, Kim (2006) "The Language of Online Leadership: Gender and Youth Engagement on the Internet ". Developmental Psychology 42 (3):436-449. [PDF]

Tartaro, A., & Cassell, J. (2006). Authorable Virtual Peers for Autism Spectrum Disorders. In 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. [ PDF ]

Striegnitz, Kristina, Tepper, Paul, Lovett, Andrew, & Cassell, Justine (2005) Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions. In Proceedings of Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue (5th Workshop on Language and Space). October 23-25, 2005; Delmenhorst, Germany [PDF]

Cassell, Justine, Huffaker, David & Tversky, Dona (2005) "How to Win a World Election: Emergent leadership in an international online community" Proceedings of Communities and Technologies 2005. June 13-16, Milan, Italy. The Hague: Kluwer Academic Press [PDF]

Cassell, J., Tversky, D. (2005) "The Language of Online Intercultural Community Formation in Junior Summit '98" Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication(2). [PDF] [online journal]

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. [Abstract] [PDF]

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. [PDF]

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.[Abstract] [PDF]

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. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J (2004) "Towards a Model of Technology and Literacy Development: Story Listening Systems" Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 25 (1): 75-105. [Abstract] [PDF]

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. [Abstract] [PDF]

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. [Abstract] [PDF]

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 [Abstract] [PDF]

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 [Abstract] [PDF]

Jonathan Gratch, Jeff Rickel, Elisabeth Andre, Norman Badler, Justine Cassell, Eric Petajan (2002) "Creating Interactive Virtual Humans: Some Assembly Required" IEEE Intelligent Systems 17(4): 54-63 [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J. (2002). "Genderizing HCI." In J. Jacko and A. Sears (eds.), The Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 402-411. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J. (2002). "We Have these Rules Inside": The Effects of Exercising Voice in a Children's Online Forum. In S. Calvert, R. Cocking and A. Jordan (eds.), Children in the Digital Age. New York: Praeger Press, pp. 123-144. [Abstract] [PDF]

O’Sullivan, C. Cassell, J. Vilhjálmsson, H. Dobbyn, S. Peters, C. Leeson, W. Giang, T. and Dingliana, J.(2002) "Crowd and Group Simulation with Levels of Detail for Geometry, Motion and Conversational Behaviour" Proceedings of Eurographics Ireland 2002. Mar 25-26, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 15-20. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Stocky, T., Bickmore, T., Gao, Y., Nakano, Y., Ryokai, K., Tversky, D., Vaucelle, C., Vilhjálmsson, H. (2002). "MACK: Media lab Autonomous Conversational Kiosk." Proceedings of Imagina02. February 12-15, Monte Carlo. [Abstract] [PDF]

Stocky, T. and Cassell, J.(2002). "Shared Reality: Spatial Intelligence in Intuitive User Interfaces" Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces. Jan 13-16, San Francisco, CA, pp. 224-225. [Abstract] [PDF]

Ryokai, K., Vaucelle, C., Cassell, J.(2002). "Literacy Learning by Storytelling with a Virtual Peer". Proceedings of Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. January 7-11, Boulder, CO, pp. 352-360. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J. (2001) "Embodied Conversational Agents: Representation and Intelligence in User Interface" AI Magazine, Winter 2001, 22(3): 67-83. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Nakano, Y., Bickmore, T., Sidner, C., Rich, C. (2001). "Non-Verbal Cues for Discourse Structure." Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, pp. 106-115. July 17-19, Toulouse, France. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Vilhjálmsson, H., Bickmore, T.(2001) "BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit." Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '01, pp. 477-486. August 12-17, Los Angeles, CA.[Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Nakano, Y., Bickmore, T., Sidner, C., and Rich, C. (2001) "Annotating and Generating Posture from Discourse Structure in Embodied Conversational Agents." Workshop on Representating, Annotating, and Evaluating Non-Verbal and Verbal Communicative Acts to Achieve Contextual Embodied Agents, Autonomous Agents 2001 Conference, Montreal, Quebec. [PDF]

Cassell, J. and Ryokai, K. (2001). "Making Space for Voice: Technologies to Support Children's Fantasy and Storytelling." Personal Technologies 5(3): 203-224. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Vilhjálmsson, H., Yan, H. (2001). "More Than Just a Pretty Face: Conversational Protocols and the Affordances of Embodiment." Knowledge-Based Systems 14: 55-64. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T. (2001) "A Relational Agent: A Model and Implementation of Building User Trust." Proceedings of the CHI'01 Conference, pp. 396-403. March 31-April 5, Seattle, Washington. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J. and Bickmore, T. (2000) "External Manifestations of Trustworthiness in the Interface." Communications of the ACM 43(12):50-56. [Abstract] [PDF]

Bickmore, T. and Cassell, J. (2000) "'How about this weather?' Social Dialog with Embodied Conversational Agents." Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on "Narrative Intelligence", pp. 4-8. November 3-5, Cape Cod, MA. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J., and Stone, M. (2000) "Coordination and Context-Dependence in the Generation of Embodied Conversation." Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference, pp. 171-178. June 12-16, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J. (2000). "Nudge Nudge Wink Wink: Elements of Face-to-Face Conversation for Embodied Conversational Agents", in Cassell, J. et al. (eds.), Embodied Conversational Agents, pp. 1-27. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Campbell, L., Vilhjálmsson, H., and Yan, H. (2000). "Human Conversation as a System Framework: Designing Embodied Conversational Agents", in Cassell, J. et al. (eds.), Embodied Conversational Agents, pp. 29-63. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J. (2000). "More than Just Another Pretty Face: Embodied Conversational Interface Agents." Communications of the ACM 43(4): 70-78.[Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Ananny, M., Basu, A., Bickmore, T., Chong, P., Mellis, D., Ryokai, K., Vilhjálmsson, H., Smith, J., Yan, H. (2000) "Shared Reality: Physical Collaboration with a Virtual Peer." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 259-260. April 4-9, Amsterdam, NL. [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., and Ryokai, K. (2000). "Story Spaces: Interfaces for Children's Voices." Proceedings of the ACM SIGGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 243-244. April 4-9, Amsterdam, NL. [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Vilhjálmsson, H., Yan, H. (2000). "More than Just a Pretty Face: Affordances of Embodiment" Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp. 52-59. January 4-9, New Orleans, LA. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Smith, J., Bickmore, T., Ryokai, K., Chong, P. (1999). "CrossTalk". SIGGRAPH 99 catalog on Electronic art and animation.  Los Angeles, CA.

Cassell, J. (1999). "Embodied Conversation: Integrating Face and Gesture into Automatic Spoken Dialogue Systems." In Luperfoy (ed.), Spoken Dialogue Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Vilhjálmsson, H., Chang, K., Bickmore, T., Campbell, L. and Yan, H. (1999). "Requirements for an Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters." in Thalmann, D. and Thalmann, N. (eds.), Computer Animation and Simulation '99 (Eurographics Series), pp. 109-120. Vienna, Austria: Springer Verlag. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J. and Smith, J. (1999). "The Victorian Laptop: Narrative Engagement through Place and Time." Proceedings of the AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence, pp. 72-77. November 5-7, North Falmouth, MA. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J. and Stone, M. (1999). "Living Hand to Mouth: Psychological Theories about Speech and Gesture in Interactive Dialogue Systems." Proceedings of the AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems, pp. 34-42. November 5-7, North Falmouth, MA. [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., McNeill, D. and McCullough, K.E. (1999). "Speech-Gesture Mismatches: Evidence for One Underlying Representation of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Information." Pragmatics and Cognition 7(1): 1-33. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J. and Thórisson, K.R. (1999). "The Power of a Nod and a Glance: Envelope vs. Emotional Feedback in Animated Conversational Agents." Applied Artificial Intelligence 13: 519-538. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Torres, O. and Prevost, S. (1999). "Turn Taking vs. Discourse Structure: How Best to Model Multimodal Conversation." In Wilks, Y. (ed.), Machine Conversations, pp. 143-154. The Hague: Kluwer. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Billinghurst, M., Campbell, L., Chang, K., Vilhjálmsson, H. and Yan, H. (1999). "Embodiment in Conversational Interfaces: Rea." Proceedings of the CHI'99 Conference, pp. 520-527. Pittsburgh, PA.  [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J. and Vilhjálmsson, H. (1999). "Fully Embodied Conversational Avatars: Making Communicative Behaviors Autonomous." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2(1): 45-64. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Bickmore, T., and Cassell, J. (1999). "Small Talk and Conversational Storytelling in Embodied Interface Agents." Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on "Narrative Intelligence," pp. 87-92. November 5-7, Cape Cod, MA. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Ryokai, K., and Cassell, J. (1999). "StoryMat: A Playspace for Collaborative Storytelling." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) '99, pp. 272-273. May 15-20, Pittsburgh, PA. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Ryokai, K. and Cassell, J. (1999). "Computer Support for Children's Collaborative Fantasy Play and Storytelling." Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning '99, pp. 510-517. December 12-15, Palo Alto, CA. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Bickmore, T., Billinghurst, M., Campbell, L., Chang, K., Vilhjálmsson, H., and Yan, H. (1998). "An Architecture for Embodied Conversational Characters." Proceedings of the First Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters, October 12-15, Tahoe City, California. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Vilhjálmsson, H. and Cassell, J. (1998). "BodyChat: Autonomous Communicative Behaviors in Avatars." Proceedings of ACM Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 9-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Awarded best paper.] [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Bers, M. U. and Cassell, J. (1998). "Interactive Storytelling Systems for Children: Using Technology to Explore Language and Identity." Journal of Interactive Learning Research 9(2) 183-215. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Bers, M.U., Ackermann, E., Cassell, J., et al. (1998). "Interactive StoryTelling Environments: Coping with Cardiac Illness at Boston Children's Hospital." Proceedings of CHI '98, pp. 603-610. April 18-23, Los Angeles, CA. [PDF]

Cassell, J. and Jenkins, H. (1998). From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Introduction]

Cassell, J. (1998). "Storytelling as the Nexus of Change in the Relationship between Gender and Technology." In Cassell, J. and Jenkins, H. (eds.), From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, pp. 298-326. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J. and Jenkins, H. (1998). "Chess for Girls? Feminism and Computer Games." In J. Cassell and H. Jenkins (eds.), From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, pp. 2-45. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [postscript] [PDF]

Pelachaud, C ., Cassell, J., Badler, N., Steedman, M., Prevost, S., and Stone, M. (1998). "Synthesizing Cooperative Conversation." In H. Bunt and R.-J. Beun (eds.), Multimodal Human-Computer Communication: Systems, Techniques and Experiments. Springer Verlag.

Cassell, J. (1998) "A Framework For Gesture Generation And Interpretation." In Cipolla, R. and Pentland, A. (eds.), Computer Vision in Human-Machine Interaction, pp. 191-215. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Abstract] [html] [postscript] [PDF]

Glos, J., and Cassell, J. (1997). "Rosebud: Technological Toys for Storytelling." Proceedings of CHI'97, pp. 359-360. March 22-27, Atlanta, GA. [html]

Glos, J., and Cassell, J. (1997). "Rosebud: A Place for Interaction between Memory, Story, and Self." Proceedings of Cognitive Technologies '97, pp. 88-97. August 25-28, Aizu, Japan.

Hiyakumoto, L., Prevost, S., and Cassell, J. (1997). "Semantic and Discourse Information Information for Text-to-Speech Intonation." ACL Workshop on Concept-to-Speech Generation, July 11, Madrid, Spain.

Negroponte, N., Resnick, M., and Cassell, J. (1997). "Creating a Learning Revolution." In Learning Without Frontiers (UNESCO) Technology and Learning Portfolio. Reprinted in Teaching, Learning and Technology Planning Guide CD-ROM published by Apple Computer. [html]

Torres, O., Cassell, J. & Prevost, S. (1997). "Modeling Gaze Behavior as a Function of Discourse Structure." First International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversations. Bellagio, Italy. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J. (1996) "Feminist Approaches to Software Design: Building Interactive Story Systems for Girls." Small Computers in the Arts Network '96. November, Philadelphia, PA.

Cassell, J. (1996) "What You Need to Know about Natural Gesture." Keynote Address, Second International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Killngton, VT, October 1996.

Cassell, J. and S. Prevost. (1996) "Distribution of Semantic Features Across Speech and Gesture by Humans and Computers." Proceedings of the Workshop on the Integration of Gesture in Language and Speech. October 7-8, Wilmington, DE. [Abstract] [html] [postscript] [PDF]

Thórisson, K.R. & J. Cassell (1996) "Why Put an Agent in a Human Body: The Importance of Communicative Feedback in Human-Humanoid Dialogue." (abstract) Lifelike Computer Characters '96. Snowbird, Utah, October 8-11, 1996, pp. 44-45. [Abstract] [postscript] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Pelachaud, C., Badler, N., Steedman, M., Achorn, B., Becket, T., Douville, B., Prevost, S., Stone, M. (1994) "Animated Converstaion: Rule-Based Generation of Facial Expression, Gesture and Spoken Intonation for Multiple Conversational Agents." Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '94, pp. 413-420. (ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics). [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J., Stone, M., Douville, B., Prevost, S., Achorn, B., Steedman, M., Badler, N., Pelachaud, C. (1994) "Modeling the Interaction between Speech and Gesture." in Ashwin Ram and Kurt Eiselt (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 153-158. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cassell, J. (1994) "The Role of Beliefs about Gender Stereotypes in the Acquisition of Gendered Words." Noga.

Cassell, J., Michael, E. & Short, R. (1994) "The Social and Linguistic Category of Gender." Workshop entitled "Gender as a Social Category: Origins, Development, and Consequences." International Society of Social and Behavioral Development annual meeting. Amsterdam, July.

Cassell, J. and McNeill, D. (1991). "Non-Verbal Imagery and the Poetics of Prose." Poetics Today, Vol. 12(3): 375-404.

Cassell, J., and McNeill, D. (1990). "Gesture and Ground." Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 57-68.

 
 
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