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Timothy Bickmore

Northeastern University
Verified email at ccs.neu.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Health dialog systems for patients and consumers

T Bickmore, T Giorgino - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2006 - Elsevier
There is a growing need for automated systems that can interview patients and consumers
about their health and provide health education and behavior change interventions using …

Establishing and maintaining long-term human-computer relationships

TW Bickmore, RW Picard - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
This research investigates the meaning of “human-computer relationship” and presents
techniques for constructing, maintaining, and evaluating such relationships, based on research …

Beat: the behavior expression animation toolkit

J Cassell, HH Vilhjálmsson, T Bickmore - Proceedings of the 28th annual …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
… The tagger identifies objects which contrast with other nearby objects (eg, "I don’t know if
this is a good thing or a bad thing."). Such objects (even if they occur within a THEME) are …

Embodiment in conversational interfaces: Rea

J Cassell, T Bickmore, M Billinghurst… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - dl.acm.org
… Permission to make digital or hard topics ofall or part of this work t’o~ personal or classroom
use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed I\lr profit or …

Relational agents: a model and implementation of building user trust

T Bickmore, J Cassell - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
Building trust with users is crucial in a wide range of applications, such as financial transactions,
and some minimal degree of trust is required in all applications to even initiate and …

Establishing the computer–patient working alliance in automated health behavior change interventions

T Bickmore, A Gruber, R Picard - Patient education and counseling, 2005 - Elsevier
… Now that I don’t have anyone checking, I find it harder to get motivated. (RELATIONAL) …
time, so it wasn’t very realistic. As a result I didn’t feel obligated, I didn’t feel like I had to impress …

Human conversation as a system framework: Designing embodied conversational agents

J Cassell, T Bickmore, L Campbell… - Embodied …, 2000 - books.google.com
… That is, we might conceive of an Action Scheduler that doesn't allow missynchronized behaviors
to be generated, or that works with other kinds of timing and synchronization constraints. …

[HTML][HTML] External manifestations of trustworthiness in the interface

J Cassell, T Bickmore - Communications of the ACM, 2000 - dl.acm.org
… But we don’t feel these signals of trustworthiness can be used to trick users out of their credit
card numbers with any more success than a stranger on the street would have. Rather, they …

'It's just like you talk to a friend'relational agents for older adults

TW Bickmore, L Caruso, K Clough-Gorr… - Interacting with …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… this study (Bickmore, 2005… t(9)Z0.50, pZ0.63). There were no significant differences between
the two groups on this measure either before (t(18)Z0.658, pZ0.52) or after the intervention (t

Social dialongue with embodied conversational agents

T Bickmore, J Cassell - Advances in natural multimodal dialogue systems, 2005 - Springer
… on a user’s trust of an ECA [Bickmore and Cassell, 2001], by investigating whether these …
is provided here; details of its implementation can be found in Cassell and Bickmore [2003]. …