Staying Alive With Virtual Humans. - Sarah Morrison-Smith; Heng Yao 002; Isaac Wang; Benjamin Lok; Jaime Ruiz (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2018)

Making Virtual Reality Social: Getting Virtual Humans into Your Virtual Environment. - Andrew Cordar; Heng Yao 002; Fatemeh Tavassoli; Jeffrey Wood; Benjamin Lok (VR Developer Gems, 2019)

Impact of Gamified Interaction with Virtual Nature on Sustained Attention and Self-Reported Restoration - A Pilot Study. - Oankar Patil; Heng Yao 002; Benjamin Lok (VRST, 2019)

Toward Automated Evaluation of Empathetic Responses in Virtual Human Interaction Systems for Mental Health Scenarios. - Heng Yao 002; Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira; Adriana Foster; Igor Galynker; Benjamin Lok (IVA, 2020)

Investigating Trainees' Nonverbal Behaviors in Virtual Patients Communication in Virtual Reality. - Heng Yao 002; Meryl Alappattu; Michael E. Robinson; Benjamin Lok (VR Workshops, 2020)

Investigating the Effects of Virtual Patients' Nonsensical Responses on Users' Facial Expressions in Mental Health Training Scenarios. - Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira; Heng Yao 002; Anokhi Bafna; Sarah Bloch-Elkouby; Jenelle Richards; Lauren B. Lloveras; Kathleen Feeney; Stephanie Morris; Erica D. Musser; Benjamin Lok; Igor Galynker (VRST, 2021)

Can we talk about bruno?: exploring virtual human counselors' spoken accents and their impact on users' conversations. - Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García; Mohan Zalake; Heng Yao 002; Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira; Benjamin Lok (IVA, 2022)

A virtual human interaction using scaffolded ping-pong feedback for healthcare learners to practice empathy skills. - Heng Yao 002; Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira; Anokhi Bafna; Devon Peterkin; Jenelle Richards; Megan L. Rogers; Adriana Foster; Igor Galynker; Benjamin Lok (IVA, 2022)

Enhancing Virtual Human Interactions by Designing a Real-Time Dialog Filter for Mitigating Nonsensical Responses. - Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira; Heng Yao 002; Sarah Bloch-Elkouby; Olivia Lawrence; Giuseppe Sarli; Megan L. Rogers; Rohith Venkatakrishnan; Roshan Venkatakrishnan; Igor Galynker; Benjamin Lok (SVR, 2024)

Enhancing Empathic Communication in Healthcare Education Through Virtual Conversations: Leveraging Large Language Models for Real-Time Feedback. - Heng Yao 002; Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira; Margeaux Johnson; Roberta Pileggi; Amy Blue; Michael D. Bumbach; Rene Love; Benjamin Lok (SVR, 2024)

Effects of Nonsensical Responses in Virtual Human Simulations on Clinicians' Empathic Communication and Emotional Responses. - Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira; Heng Yao 002; Sarah Bloch-Elkouby; Megan L. Rogers; Olivia Lawrence; Devon Peterkin; Sifan Zheng; Kathleen Feeney; Erica D. Musser; Igor Galynker; Benjamin Lok (J. Braz. Comput. Soc., 2024)

Exploring the Effects of User-Agent and User-Designer Similarity in Virtual Human Design to Promote Mental Health Intentions for College Students. - Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García; Chase Wrenn; Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira; Rashi Ghosh; Jacob Stuart; Heng Yao 002; Benjamin Lok (ACM Trans. Appl. Percept., 2025)