The Agents United Platform was developed within the Council of Coaches project (Sep. 2017-2020). Research that has been published as part of that project or that has been conducted with the platform since is listed below.
2021
- Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, and Catherine Pelachaud (2021). "Evaluation of Multi-Party Virtual Agents", in Joint Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Games-Human Interaction (GHItaly21) and 1st Workshop on Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality (MIXR21), CEUR Vol-2934.
- Gerwin Huizing, Randy Klaassen, and Dirk Heylen (2021). "Designing Effective Dialogue Content for a Virtual Coaching Team Using the Interaction Process Analysis and Interpersonal Circumplex Models", in International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2021) (pp. 19-32). Springer, Cham.
- Mark Snaith, Nicholas Conway, Tessa Beinema, Dominic De Franco, Alison Pease, Reshmashree Kantharaju, Mathilde Janier, Gerwin Huizing, Catherine Pelachaud, and Harm op den Akker (2021). "A Multimodal Corpus of Simulated Consultations Between a Patient and Multiple Healthcare Professionals", in Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 1-16.
- Tessa Beinema, Harm op den Akker, Lex van Velsen, and Hermie Hermens (2021). "Tailoring Coaching Strategies to Users' Motivation in a Multi-Agent Health Coaching Application", in Computers in Human Behavior, 121, 106797.
2020
- Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Caroline Langlet, Mukesh Barange, Chloé Clavel, and Catherine Pelachaud (2020). "Multimodal Analysis of Cohesion in Multi-party Interactions", in Proceedings of LREC 2020.
- Silke ter Stal, Lean Leonie Kramer, Monique Tabak, Harm op den Akker, and Hermie Hermens (2020). "Design Features of Embodied Conversational Agents in eHealth: a Literature Review", in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 138, 102409.
- Marian Z. M. Hurmuz, Stephanie M. Jansen-Kosterink, Harm op den Akker, and Hermie J. Hermens (2020), "User Experience and Potential Health Effects of a Conversational Agent-Based Electronic Health Intervention: Protocol for an Observational Cohort Study", in JMIR Research Protocols, 9(4), e16641.
- Silke ter Stal, Monique Tabak, Harm op den Akker, Tessa Beinema, and Hermie Hermens (2020). "Who Do You Prefer? The Effect of Age, Gender and Role on Users' First Impressions of Embodied Conversational Agents in eHealth", in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 36(9), pages 881-892.
2019
- Kuthethur Sneha Jagannath Das, Tessa Beinema, Harm op den Akker, and Hermie Hermens (2019). "Generation of Multi-Party Dialogues among Embodied Conversational Agents to Promote Active Living and Healthy Diet for Subjects Suffering from Type 2 Diabetes", in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE 2019), pages 297-304.
- Jan Wohlfahrt-Laymann, Hermie Hermens, Claudia Villalonga, Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten, and Oresti Banos (2019). "MobileCogniTracker: A Mobile Experience Sampling Tool for Tracking Cognitive Behaviour", in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 10, pp. 2143-2160.
- Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Alison Pease, Dennis Reidsma, Catherine Pelachaud, Mark Snaith, Merijn Bruijnes, Randy Klaassen, Tessa Beinema, Gerwin Huizing, Donatella Simonetti, Dirk Heylen, and Harm op den Akker (2019). "Integrating Argumentation with Social Conversation between Multiple Virtual Coaches", in Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '19), pages 203-205.
- Fajrian Yunus, Chloé Clavel, and Catherine Pelachaud (2019)."Gesture Class Prediction by Recurrent Neural Network and Attention Mechanism", in Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '19), pages 233-235.
2018
- Kostas Konsolakis, Hermie Hermens, Claudia Villalonga, Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten, and Oresti Banos, "Human Behaviour Analysis through Smartphones", in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAml 2018), December 2018.
- Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Dominic De Franco, Alison Pease, and Catherine Pelachaud (2018). "Is Two Better than One?: Effects of Multiple Agents on User Persuasion", in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '18).
- Reshmashree B. Kantharaju, Fabien Ringeval, and Laurent Besacier (2018). "Automatic Recognition of Affective Laughter in Spontaneous Dyadic Interactions from Audiovisual Signals", in Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '18), pages 220-228.
- Mark Snaith, Dominic De Franco, Tessa Beinema, Harm op den Akker, and Alison Pease (2018). "A Dialogue Game for Multi-Party Goal-Setting in Health Coaching", in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 305: Computational Models of Argument, and in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2018).
- Tessa Beinema, Harm op den Akker, and Hermie Hermens (2018). "Creating an Artificial Coaching Engine for Multi-Domain Conversational Coaches in eHealth Applications", in Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Intelligent Conversation Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications. Published as CEUR-WS vol-2338.
- Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju, and Catherine Pelachaud (2018). "Towards Developing a Model to Handle Multiparty Conversations for Healthcare Agents", in Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Intelligent Conversation Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications. Published as CEUR-WS vol-2338.
- Gerwin Huizing, Randy Klaassen, and Dirk Heylen (2018). "Designing and Developing Lifelike, Engaging Lifestyle Coaching Agents and Scenarios for Multiparty Coaching Interaction", in Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Intelligent Conversation Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications. Published as CEUR-WS vol-2338.
- Brian Ravenet, Catherine Pelachaud, Chloé Clavel, and Stacy Marsella (2018). "Automating the Production of Communicative Gestures in Embodied Characters", in Frontiers in Psychology, 8, page 1144.
- Oresti Banos, Hermie Hermens, Christopher Nugent, and Hector Pomares (2018). "Smart Sensing Technologies for Personalised e-Coaching", in Sensors, 18(6), page 1751.
- Dominic De Franco, Alison Pease, and Mark Snaith (2018). "Measuring Persuasiveness in Behaviour Change Support Systems", in Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Behaviour Change Support Systems co-located with the 13th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2018). Published as CEUR-WS vol-2102.
- Jan Wohlfarht-Laymann, Hermie Hermens, Claudia Villalonga, Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten, and Oresti Banos (2018). "Enabling Remote Assesment of Cognitive Behaviour through Mobile Experience Sampling", in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Internatioal Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops).
- Harm op den Akker, Rieks op den Akker, Tessa Beinema, Oresti Banos, Dirk Heylen, Björn Bedsted, Alison Pease, Catherine Pelachaud, Vicente Traver Salcedo, Sofoklis Kyriazakos, and Hermie Hermens (2018). "Council of Coaches - A Novel Holistic Behavior Change Coaching Approach", in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE 2018), pages 219-226.