Organized several academic conferences such as the AAAI Fall '04 Symposium on Dialogue Systems for Health Communication, the AAAI Fall '05 Symposium on Caring Machine: AI in Eldercare, and the AAAI Spring '06 Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare; Taught courses like IS2000 Principles of Information Science, IS4800/CS6350 Empirical Research Methods, and IS4300 Human-Computer Interaction.
Research Experience
Position: Professor at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University; Research projects: Relational Agents Group; Recent research projects include dialogue systems for health communication, AI in eldercare, argumentation for consumers of healthcare, etc.
Education
Ph.D.; specific details regarding the school, advisor, time, or field of study not provided.
Background
Interested in the development and study of Relational Agents, which are designed to build and maintain long-term, social-emotional relationships with people. Focuses particularly on applications within education, sales and marketing, and helping professions, with a recent emphasis on health education and behavior change in the healthcare domain.
Miscellany
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