Training lay counselors with virtual agents to promote vaccination. - Prasanth Murali; Farnaz Nouraei; Mina Fallah; Aisling Kearns; Keith Rebello; Teresa O'Leary; Rebecca B. Perkins; Natalie Pierre Joseph; Julien Dedier; Michael K. Paasche-Orlow; Timothy W. Bickmore (IVA, 2022)

Thinking Outside the Box: Non-Designer Perspectives and Recommendations for Template-Based Graphic Design Tools. - Farnaz Nouraei; Alexa F. Siu; Ryan A. Rossi; Nedim Lipka (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2024)

Empathic Grounding: Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents. - Mehdi Arjmand; Farnaz Nouraei; Ian Steenstra; Timothy W. Bickmore (IVA, 2024)

Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session. - Mina Fallah; Farnaz Nouraei; Hye Sun Yun; Timothy W. Bickmore (IVA, 2024)

Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing. - Ian Steenstra; Farnaz Nouraei; Mehdi Arjmand; Timothy W. Bickmore (IVA, 2024)

Scaffolding Empathy: Training Counselors with Simulated Patients and Utterance-level Performance Visualizations. - Ian Steenstra; Farnaz Nouraei; Timothy W. Bickmore (CHI, 2025)

Virtual Agent-based Communication Skills Training to Facilitate Health Persuasion Among Peers. - Farnaz Nouraei; Keith Rebello; Mina Fallah; Prasanth Murali; Haley Matuszak; Valerie Jap; Andrea G. Parker; Michael K. Paasche-Orlow; Timothy W. Bickmore (Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2025)