| 2025 | CHI | Scaffolding Empathy: Training Counselors with Simulated Patients and Utterance-level Performance Visualizations. | Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2025 | IVA | Using Virtual Agents and LLMs to Generate Tailored Health Education Pamphlets. | Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2024 | CHI | Thinking Outside the Box: Non-Designer Perspectives and Recommendations for Template-Based Graphic Design Tools. | Farnaz Nouraei, Alexa F. Siu, Ryan A. Rossi, Nedim Lipka |
| 2024 | IVA | Empathic Grounding: Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents. | Mehdi Arjmand, Farnaz Nouraei, Ian Steenstra, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2024 | IVA | Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session. | Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei, Hye Sun Yun, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2024 | IVA | Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing. | Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Mehdi Arjmand, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2022 | IVA | Training lay counselors with virtual agents to promote vaccination. | Prasanth Murali, Farnaz Nouraei, Mina Fallah, Aisling Kearns, Keith Rebello, Teresa O'Leary, Rebecca B. Perkins, Natalie Pierre Joseph, Julien Dedier, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Timothy W. Bickmore |