| 2026 | CHI | Designing for Adolescent Voice in Health Decisions: Embodied Conversational Agents for HPV Vaccination. | Ian Steenstra, Neha Patkar, Rebecca B. Perkins, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2025 | CHI | Scaffolding Empathy: Training Counselors with Simulated Patients and Utterance-level Performance Visualizations. | Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2025 | IVA | A Risk Ontology for Evaluating AI-Powered Psychotherapy Virtual Agents. | Ian Steenstra, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2024 | CHI | 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 |
| 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 | Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing. | Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Mehdi Arjmand, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2023 | CHI | Improving Multiparty Interactions with a Robot Using Large Language Models. | Prasanth Murali, Ian Steenstra, Hye Sun Yun, Ameneh Shamekhi, Timothy W. Bickmore |
| 2023 | IVA | 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 |