| 2026 | HCI | Build-A-Being Yourself: A Web-Based System for Authoring Embodied Conversational Agents in Healthcare Research. | Christopher You, Rashi Ghosh, Andrew Maxim, Xuening Peng, Danish Nisar Ahmed Tamboli, Zhanhong Huang, Ryan Canales, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Benjamin Lok |
| 2025 | HAI | The Impact of Health Literacy in a Virtual Agent Intervention Addressing Barriers to Cancer Clinical Trial Participation. | Rashi Ghosh, Christopher You, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Benjamin Lok |
| 2025 | ICALT | Exploring the Design of Learner Control in Pedagogical Conversational Agents and Its Effect on Student Learning. | Xuening Peng, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok |
| 2025 | IVA | Exploring the Influence of Multiple Virtual Agents for Addressing Barriers to Cancer Clinical Trial Participation. | Rashi Ghosh, Christopher You, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Benjamin Lok |
| 2025 | IVA | Voice and Choice: Voice Equivalence and Representational Choice in Virtual Health Assistants for Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Black American Adults. | Andrew Maxim, Eric Cooks, Janice L. Krieger, Benjamin Lok |
| 2025 | IVA | Vocal Modulation and Engagement Effects in Virtual Health Assistant-Guided Gratitude Journaling Among Young Adults. | Andrew Maxim, Courtny Franco, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Benjamin Lok |
| 2024 | HAI | Effects of Gender Synchrony in User-Agent Interactions: Integrating the Designer as a Product Cue in Virtual Human Design for Mental Health Support. | Pedro Guillermo Feijo Garca, Chase Wrenn, Sterling Kalogeras, Chandler Payne, Benjamin Lok, Olufisayo Omojokun |
| 2024 | HCI | Evaluating the Effect of Adapting Virtual Humans Based on Individual Differences in Users. | Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Krishna Vaddiparti, Pavlo D. Antonenko, Benjamin Lok |
| 2024 | VR | Real-Time Virtual Human for Promoting Clinical Trial Education and Recruitment. | Rashi Ghosh, Andrew Maxim, Christopher You, Benjamin Lok |
| 2023 | IVA | The Impact of Virtual Human Vocal Personality on Establishing Rapport: A Study on Promoting Mental Wellness Through Extroversion and Vocalics. | Andrew Maxim, Mohan Zalake, Benjamin Lok |
| 2022 | ISMAR | Strafing Gain: Redirecting Users One Diagonal Step at a Time. | Christopher You, Brett Benda, Evan Suma Rosenberg, Eric D. Ragan, Benjamin Lok, Jerald Thomas |
| 2022 | IVA | Can we talk about bruno?: exploring virtual human counselors' spoken accents and their impact on users' conversations. | Pedro Guillermo Feijo Garca, Mohan Zalake, Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok |
| 2022 | IVA | A virtual human interaction using scaffolded ping-pong feedback for healthcare learners to practice empathy skills. | Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Anokhi Bafna, Devon Peterkin, Jenelle Richards, Megan L. Rogers, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok |
| 2022 | IVA | How does a virtual human earn your trust?: guidelines to improve willingness to self-disclose to intelligent virtual agents. | Christopher You, Rashi Ghosh, Andrew Maxim, Jacob Stuart, Eric Cooks, Benjamin Lok |
| 2022 | VR | The Effect of Virtual Humans Making Verbal Communication Mistakes on Learners' Perspectives of their Credibility, Reliability, and Trustworthiness. | Jacob Stuart, Karen Aul, Michael D. Bumbach, Anita Stephen, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok |
| 2021 | HCI | Towards an Effective Web-Based Virtual Health Intervention: The Impact of Media Platform, Visual Framing, and Race on Social Presence and Transportation Ratings. | Fatemeh Tavassoli, Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Franois Modave, Janice L. Krieger, Benjamin Lok, Juan E. Gilbert |
| 2021 | IVA | Effects of Virtual Humans' Gender and Spoken Accent on Users' Perceptions of Expertise in Mental Wellness Conversations. | Pedro Guillermo Feijo Garca, Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok, Felix G. Hamza-Lup |
| 2021 | IVA | Towards Understanding How Virtual Human's Verbal Persuasion Strategies Influence User Intentions To Perform Health Behavior. | Mohan Zalake, Krishna Vaddiparti, Pavlo D. Antonenko, Benjamin Lok |
| 2021 | UIST | Romadoro: Leveraging Nudge Techniques to Encourage Break-Taking. | Katarina Jurczyk, Christopher You, Mahsan Nourani, Manas Gupta, Lisa Anthony, Benjamin Lok |
| 2021 | VRST | Investigating the Effects of Virtual Patients' Nonsensical Responses on Users' Facial Expressions in Mental Health Training Scenarios. | Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Heng Yao, Anokhi Bafna, Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Jenelle Richards, Lauren B. Lloveras, Kathleen Feeney, Stephanie Morris, Erica D. Musser, Benjamin Lok, Igor Galynker |
| 2020 | IVA | Toward Automated Evaluation of Empathetic Responses in Virtual Human Interaction Systems for Mental Health Scenarios. | Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok |
| 2020 | VR | Applying Stress Management Techniques in Augmented Reality: Stress Induction and Reduction in Healthcare Providers During Virtual Triage Simulation. | Jacob Stuart, Ileri Akinnola, Frank Guido-Sanz, Mindi Anderson, Desiree Diaz, Greg Welch, Benjamin Lok |
| 2020 | VR | Investigating Trainees' Nonverbal Behaviors in Virtual Patients Communication in Virtual Reality. | Heng Yao, Meryl Alappattu, Michael E. Robinson, Benjamin Lok |
| 2019 | IVA | Internet-based Tailored Virtual Human Health Intervention to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening: Design Guidelines from Two User Studies. | Mohan Zalake, Fatemeh Tavassoli, Lauren Griffin, Janice L. Krieger, Benjamin Lok |
| 2019 | LAK | Predicting Student Success in Communication Skills Learning Scenarios with Virtual Humans. | Stephanie Carnell, Benjamin Lok, Melva T. James, Jonathan K. Su |
| 2019 | VRST | Impact of Gamified Interaction with Virtual Nature on Sustained Attention and Self-Reported Restoration - A Pilot Study. | Oankar Patil, Heng Yao, Benjamin Lok |
| 2018 | CHI | Staying Alive With Virtual Humans. | Sarah Morrison-Smith, Heng Yao, Isaac Wang, Benjamin Lok, Jaime Ruiz |
| 2018 | IVA | The Effects of Author Identity on Dialogue for Virtual Human Communication Skills Training. | Stephanie Carnell, Benjamin Lok |
| 2018 | IVA | Non-Responsive Virtual Humans for Self-Report Assessments. | Mohan Zalake, Benjamin Lok |
| 2018 | IVA | Assessing the Impact of Virtual Human's Appearance on Users' Trust Levels. | Mohan Zalake, Julia Woodward, Amanpreet Kapoor, Benjamin Lok |
| 2017 | VR | Repeat after me: Using mixed reality humans to influence best communication practices. | Andrew Cordar, Adam Wendling, Casey White, Samsun Lampotang, Benjamin Lok |
| 2016 | ICALT | Self-Assessment Through Interactive In-Action Reflections to Improve Interpersonal Skills Training. | Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Andrea Kleinsmith, Gail Childs, Roberta Pileggi, Benjamin Lok |
| 2015 | IVA | Adapting Virtual Patient Interviews for Interviewing Skills Training of Novice Healthcare Students. | Stephanie Carnell, Shivashankar Halan, Michael Crary, Aarthi Madhavan, Benjamin Lok |
| 2015 | IVA | Virtual Role-Models: Using Virtual Humans to Train Best Communication Practices for Healthcare Teams. | Andrew Cordar, Andrew C. Robb, Adam Wendling, Samsun Lampotang, Casey White, Benjamin Lok |
| 2015 | IVA | Exploring the Effects of Healthcare Students Creating Virtual Patients for Empathy Training. | Shivashankar Halan, Isaac Sia, Michael Crary, Benjamin Lok |
| 2014 | ICALT | Virtual Agent Constructionism: Experiences from Health Professions Students Creating Virtual Conversational Agent Representations of Patients. | Shivashankar Halan, Benjamin Lok, Isaac Sia, Michael Crary |
| 2014 | ICALT | Towards a Reflective Practicum of Embodied Conversational Agent Experiences. | Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Andrea Kleinsmith, Teresa Johnson, Rebecca Lyons, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok |
| 2014 | IVA | Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal Communication Skills in Medical Students. | Andrew Cordar, Michael Borish, Adriana Foster, Benjamin Lok |
| 2014 | IVA | Exploring Gender Biases with Virtual Patients for High Stakes Interpersonal Skills Training. | Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Regis Kopper, Andrea Kleinsmith, Juan Cendan, Glen Finney, Benjamin Lok |
| 2014 | IVA | A Qualitative Evaluation of Behavior during Conflict with an Authoritative Virtual Human. | Andrew C. Robb, Casey White, Andrew Cordar, Adam Wendling, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Benjamin Lok |
| 2014 | VR | Social presence in mixed agency interactions. | Andrew C. Robb, Benjamin Lok |
| 2013 | VR | Message from the General Chairs. | Benjamin Lok, Greg Welch |
| 2012 | CHI | Constructionism of virtual humans to improve perceptions of conversational partners. | Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Michael Crary, Benjamin Lok |
| 2012 | ISMAR | Hybrid virtual-physical entities. | Joon Hao Chuah, Benjamin Lok |
| 2012 | IVA | Virtual Human Personality Masks: A Human Computation Approach to Modeling Verbal Personalities in Virtual Humans. | Vaishnavi Krishnan, Adriana Foster, Regis Kopper, Benjamin Lok |
| 2012 | VR | Increasing agent physicality to raise social presence and elicit realistic behavior. | Joon Hao Chuah, Andrew C. Robb, Casey White, Adam Wendling, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Regis Kopper, Benjamin Lok |
| 2011 | VR | Message from the program chairs. | Michitaka Hirose, Benjamin Lok, Aditi Majumder, Dieter Schmalstieg |
| 2011 | VR | An initial exploration of conversational errors as a novel method for evaluating virtual human experiences. | Richard Skarbez, Aaron Kotranza, Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Benjamin Lok, Mary C. Whitton |
| 2010 | IVA | High Score! - Motivation Strategies for User Participation in Virtual Human Development. | Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok |
| 2010 | IVA | The Impact of a Mixed Reality Display Configuration on User Behavior with a Virtual Human. | Kyle Johnsen, Diane Beck, Benjamin Lok |
| 2010 | IVA | Using Virtual Humans to Bootstrap the Creation of Other Virtual Humans. | Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok |
| 2010 | VR | Show some respect! The impact of technological factors on the treatment of virtual humans in conversational training systems. | Kyle Johnsen, Brent Rossen, Diane Beck, Benjamin Lok, D. Scott Lind |
| 2009 | ISMAR | Integrating conversational virtual humans and mannequin patient simulators to present mixed reality clinical training experiences. | Yongho Hwang, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Nikolaus Gravenstein, Isaac Luria, Benjamin Lok |
| 2009 | ISMAR | Real-time in-situ visual feedback of task performance in mixed environments for learning joint psychomotor-cognitive tasks. | Aaron Kotranza, D. Scott Lind, Carla M. Pugh, Benjamin Lok |
| 2009 | IVA | Automated Generation of Emotive Virtual Humans. | Joon Hao Chuah, Brent Rossen, Benjamin Lok |
| 2009 | IVA | Human-Centered Distributed Conversational Modeling: Efficient Modeling of Robust Virtual Human Conversations. | Brent Rossen, D. Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok |
| 2009 | VR | Virtual Humans That Touch Back: Enhancing Nonverbal Communication with Virtual Humans through Bidirectional Touch. | Aaron Kotranza, Benjamin Lok, Carla M. Pugh, D. Scott Lind |
| 2009 | VR | Virtual Experiences for Social Perspective-Taking. | Andrew Raij, Aaron Kotranza, D. Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok |
| 2008 | ISMAR | Collocated AAR: Augmenting After Action Review with Mixed Reality. | John Quarles, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Ira Fischler, Paul A. Fishwick, Benjamin Lok |
| 2008 | IVA | Audio Analysis of Human/Virtual-Human Interaction. | Harold Rodriguez, Diane Beck, David Lind, Benjamin Lok |
| 2008 | IVA | Virtual Humans Elicit Skin-Tone Bias Consistent with Real-World Skin-Tone Biases. | Brent Rossen, Kyle Johnsen, Adeline Deladisma, D. Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok |
| 2008 | VR | An Evaluation of Immersive Displays for Virtual Human Experiences. | Kyle Johnsen, Benjamin Lok |
| 2008 | VR | Virtual Human + Tangible Interface = Mixed Reality Human An Initial Exploration with a Virtual Breast Exam Patient. | Aaron Kotranza, Benjamin Lok |
| 2008 | VR | A Mixed Reality Approach for Merging Abstract and Concrete Knowledge. | John Quarles, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Ira Fischler, Paul A. Fishwick, Benjamin Lok |
| 2008 | VR | IPSViz: An After-Action Review Tool for Human-Virtual Human Experiences. | Andrew Raij, Benjamin Lok |
| 2007 | CHI | The validity of a virtual human experience for interpersonal skills education. | Kyle Johnsen, Andrew Raij, Amy O. Stevens, D. Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok |
| 2007 | VR | Student Panel: Building the Future of and a Career in VR. | Benjamin Lok, Nicholas F. Polys, Kyle Johnsen, Sharif Razzaque, Catherine A. Zanbaka |
| 2006 | VR | Interpersonal Scenarios: Virtual \approx Real? | Andrew Raij, Kyle Johnsen, Robert F. Dickerson, Benjamin Lok, Marc S. Cohen, Thomas Bernard, Christopher E. Oxendine, Peggy Wagner, D. Scott Lind |
| 2006 | VRST | Mixed reality: are two hands better than one? | Aaron Kotranza, John Quarles, Benjamin Lok |
| 2005 | ISMAR | A Pipeline for Rapidly Incorporating Real Objects into a Mixed Environment. | Xiyong Wang, Aaron Kotranza, John Quarles, Benjamin Lok, B. Danette Allen |
| 2005 | VR | Experiences in Using Immersive Virtual Characters to Educate Medical Communication Skills. | Kyle Johnsen, Robert F. Dickerson, Andrew Raij, Benjamin Lok, Jonathan Jackson, Min C. Shin, Jonathan Hernandez, Amy O. Stevens, D. Scott Lind |
| 2004 | VR | Effects of Travel Technique on Cognition in Virtual Environments. | Catherine A. Zanbaka, Benjamin Lok, Sabarish V. Babu, Dan Xiao, Amy Catherine Ulinski, Larry F. Hodges |
| 2004 | VR | Colorplate: Effects of Travel Technique on Cognition in Virtual Environments. | Catherine A. Zanbaka, Benjamin Lok, Sabarish V. Babu, Dan Xiao, Amy Catherine Ulinski, Larry F. Hodges |
| 2003 | VR | Effects of Handling Real Objects and Avatar Fidelity On Cognitive Task Performance in Virtual Environments. | Benjamin Lok, Samir Naik, Mary C. Whitton, Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |
| 2002 | SIGGRAPH | Physiological reaction and presence in stressful virtual environments. | Michael Meehan, Mary C. Whitton, Sharif Razzaque, Paul Zimmons, Brent Insko, Greg Coombe, Benjamin Lok, Thorsten Scheuermann, Samir Naik, Jason Jerald, Mark J. Harris, Angus Antley, Frederick P. Brooks Jr. |