Demonstration of an Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults. - Candace L. Sidner; Timothy W. Bickmore; Charles Rich; Barbara Barry; Lazlo Ring; Morteza Behrooz; Mohammad Shayganfar (SIGDIAL Conference, 2013)

Robotic and Virtual Companions for Isolated Older Adults. - Candace L. Sidner; Charles Rich; Mohammad Shayganfar; Morteza Behrooz; Timothy W. Bickmore; Lazlo Ring; Zessie Zhang (AAAI Fall Symposia, 2014)

Crowdsourcing the construction of a 3D object recognition database for robotic grasping. - David Kent 001; Morteza Behrooz; Sonia Chernova (ICRA, 2014)

On the Sociability of a Game-Playing Agent: A Software Framework and Empirical Study. - Morteza Behrooz; Charles Rich; Candace L. Sidner (IVA, 2014)

The Learning of Zelda: Data-Driven Level Generation for Action Role Playing Games. - Adam Summerville; Morteza Behrooz; Michael Mateas; Arnav Jhala (FDG, 2015)

Remember That Time? Telling Interesting Stories from Past Interactions. - Morteza Behrooz; Reid Swanson; Arnav Jhala (ICIDS, 2015)

Construction of a 3D object recognition and manipulation database from grasp demonstrations. - David Kent 001; Morteza Behrooz; Sonia Chernova (Auton. Robots, 2016)

What Does That ?-Block Do? Learning Latent Causal Affordances From Mario Play Traces. - Adam Summerville; Morteza Behrooz; Michael Mateas; Arnav Jhala (AAAI Workshops, 2017)

Modeling social interestingness in conversational stories. - Morteza Behrooz; Arnav Jhala (ACSW, 2017)

CADI - A Conversational Assistive Design Interface for Discovering Pong Variants. - Afshin Mobramaein; Morteza Behrooz; Jim Whitehead (AIIDE, 2018)

Cognitive and Experiential Interestingness in Abstract Visual Narrative. - Morteza Behrooz; Afshin Mobramaein; Arnav Jhala; Jim Whitehead (CogSci, 2018)

Story Quality as a Matter of Perception: Using Word Embeddings to Estimate Cognitive Interest. - Morteza Behrooz; Justus Robertson; Arnav Jhala (AIIDE, 2019)

Investigating the Use of Word Embeddings to Estimate Cognitive Interest in Stories. - Morteza Behrooz; Justus Robertson; Arnav Jhala (CogSci, 2019)

Augmenting Music Listening Experiences on Voice Assistants. - Morteza Behrooz; Sarah Mennicken; Jennifer Thom; Rohit Kumar; Henriette Cramer (ISMIR, 2019)

Curating Interest in Open Story Generation. - Morteza Behrooz (2019)

BlenderBot 3: a deployed conversational agent that continually learns to responsibly engage. - Kurt Shuster 001; Jing Xu; Mojtaba Komeili; Da Ju; Eric Michael Smith; Stephen Roller; Megan Ung; Moya Chen; Kushal Arora; Joshua Lane; Morteza Behrooz; William Ngan; et al. (CoRR, 2022)

Improving Open Language Models by Learning from Organic Interactions. - Jing Xu; Da Ju; Joshua Lane; Mojtaba Komeili; Eric Michael Smith; Megan Ung; Morteza Behrooz; William Ngan; Rashel Moritz; Sainbayar Sukhbaatar; Y-Lan Boureau; Jason Weston; et al. (CoRR, 2023)

The HCI Aspects of Public Deployment of Research Chatbots: A User Study, Design Recommendations, and Open Challenges. - Morteza Behrooz; William Ngan; Joshua Lane; Giuliano Morse; Benjamin Babcock; Kurt Shuster 001; Mojtaba Komeili; Moya Chen; Melanie Kambadur; Y-Lan Boureau; Jason Weston (CoRR, 2023)

Holding the Line: A Study of Writers' Attitudes on Co-creativity with AI. - Morteza Behrooz; Yuandong Tian; William Ngan; Yael Yungster; Justin Wong; David Zax (CoRR, 2024)

Towards Using Voice for Hedonic Shopping Motivations. - Morteza Behrooz; Preetham Kolari; Fred Zaw; Lindsay Kenzig; Arnav Jhala (CoRR, 2025)

Seamless Interaction: Dyadic Audiovisual Motion Modeling and Large-Scale Dataset. - Vasu Agrawal; Akinniyi Akinyemi; Kathryn Alvero; Morteza Behrooz; Julia Buffalini; Fabio Maria Carlucci; Joy Chen; Junming Chen; Zhang Chen; Shiyang Cheng; Praveen Chowdary; Joe Chuang; et al. (CoRR, 2025)