Multimodal Dialogue State Tracking By QA Approach with Data Augmentation. - Xiangyang Mou; Brandyn Sigouin; Ian Steenstra; Hui Su (CoRR, 2020)

Improving Multiparty Interactions with a Robot Using Large Language Models. - Prasanth Murali; Ian Steenstra; Hye Sun Yun; Ameneh Shamekhi; Timothy W. Bickmore (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2023)

Changing Parent Attitudes Towards HPV Vaccination by Including Adolescents in Multiparty Counseling using Virtual Agents. - Ian Steenstra; Prasanth Murali; Rebecca B. Perkins; Natalie Pierre Joseph; Michael K. Paasche-Orlow; Timothy W. Bickmore (IVA, 2023)

Engaging and Entertaining Adolescents in Health Education Using LLM-Generated Fantasy Narrative Games and Virtual Agents. - Ian Steenstra; Prasanth Murali; Rebecca B. Perkins; Natalie Joseph; Michael K. Paasche-Orlow; Timothy W. Bickmore (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)

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)

A Risk Taxonomy for Evaluating AI-Powered Psychotherapy Agents. - Ian Steenstra; Timothy W. Bickmore (CoRR, 2025)