Publications

Conference Papers

• Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing
  Published in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2024), 2024
  Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Mehdi Arjmand, Timothy W Bickmore
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• Empathic Grounding: Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents
  Published in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2024), 2024
  Mehdi Arjmand, Farnaz Nouraei, Ian Steenstra, Timothy Bickmore
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• Keeping Users Engaged During Repeated Administration of the Same Questionnaire: Using Large Language Models to Reliably Diversify Questions
  Published in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2024), 2023
  Hye Sun Yun, Mehdi Arjmand, Phillip Sherlock, Michael K Paasche-Orlow, James W Griffith, Timothy Bickmore
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• Towards Automated Pain Assessment using Embodied Conversational Agents
  Published in Companion Publication of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '23 Companion), 2023
  Prasanth Murali, Mehdi Arjmand, Matias Volonte, Zixi Li, James Griffith, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Timothy Bickmore
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Pre-prints

• Teasel: a transformer-based speech-prefixed language model
  Published in Arxiv, 2021
  Mehdi Arjmand, Mohammad Javad Dousti, Hadi Moradi
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