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ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Galvez Trigo, M. J., Porcheron, M., Egede, J., Fischer, J. E., Hazzard, A., Greenhalgh, C., Bodiaj, E., & Valstar, M. (2021, July). ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies. Presented at CUI 2021 : Third Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Bilbao (online), Spain

We present ALTCAI, a Wizard of Oz Embodied Conversational Agent that has been developed to explore the use of interactive agents as an effective and engaging tool for delivering health and well-being advice to expectant and nursing mothers in Nigeria... Read More about ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies.

Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egede, J. O., Jaiswal, S., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Price, D., Elliot, N., Nixon, N., Krishnan, D. B., Morriss, R., Liddle, P., Greenhalgh, C., & Valstar, M. (2021, September). Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety. Presented at 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’21), Virtual Event, Kyoto, Japan

Virtual human technologies are now being widely explored as therapy tools for mental health disorders including depression and anxiety. These technologies leverage the ability of the virtual agents to engage in naturalistic social interactions with a... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety.

Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egede, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Hazzard, A., Porcheron, M., Bodiaj, E., Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., & Valstar, M. (2021, September). Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study. Presented at 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’21), Virtual Event, Kyoto, Japan

Access to healthcare advice is crucial to promote healthy societies. Many factors shape how access might be constrained, such as economic status, education or, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, remote consultations with health practitioners. Our wo... Read More about Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study.

Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Sundnes Løvlie, A., Ryding, K., Rajkowska, P., Bodiaj, E., Paris Darzentas, D., Cameron, H., Spence, J., Egede, J., & Spanjevic, B. (2022, April). Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum. Presented at CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA

Museums are interested in designing emotional visitor experiences to complement traditional interpretations. HCI is interested in the relationship between Affective Computing and Affective Interaction. We describe Sensitive Pictures, an emotional vis... Read More about Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum.

Identifying Variation in the Newborn Life Support Procedure: An Automated Method
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, A., Remenyte-Prescott, R., Egede, J., Valstar, M., & Sharkey, D. (2023, September). Identifying Variation in the Newborn Life Support Procedure: An Automated Method. Presented at 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2023), Southampton, UK

This research is conducted for developing an automated method to recognize variations in the Newborn Life Support (NLS) procedure. Compliance with the NLS standard guideline is essential to prevent any adverse consequences for the newborn. Video reco... Read More about Identifying Variation in the Newborn Life Support Procedure: An Automated Method.

An Automated Performance Evaluation of the Newborn Life Support Procedure
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, A., Egede, J., Remenyte-Prescott, R., Valstar, M., & Sharkey, D. (2024, January). An Automated Performance Evaluation of the Newborn Life Support Procedure. Presented at 2024 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), Albuquerque, NM, USA

This research is conducted to develop an automated action recognition method to evaluate the performance of the Newborn Life Support (NLS) procedure. It will be useful to find deviations in the procedure, such as missing steps and incorrect actions,... Read More about An Automated Performance Evaluation of the Newborn Life Support Procedure.