Application

ASAQ in published research.

2026: 

  • Elena Bastianelli, Ivan Semenzi, Nicole D’Aurizio and Domenico Prattichizzo,"Cognitive Augmentation Through a Scripted-Agent Wearable Sensorimotor Interface: A Pilot Study, in IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 107575-107589, 2026, http://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3713055
  • Felix Moser, Rasita Vinay, and Tobias Kowatsch. 2026. STELLA: An Open-Source Platform for Auditable Voice-First Conversational Health Coaching Agents. Proc. of the 8th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 88, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3816046.3816293
  • Jonathan Ehret, Jonas Schüppen, Chinthusa Mohanathasan, Cosima A. Ermert, Janina Fels, and Sabine J. Schlittmeier. 2026. Objectifying Social Presence: Evaluating Multimodal Degraders in ECAs Using the Heard Text Recall Paradigm, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 2312-2325, , https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3636079
  • Konstantin W. Kühlem, Jonathan Ehret, Torsten W. Kuhlen and Andrea Bönsch. 2026. Fostering Engagement Through a Latency-Optimized LLM-Based Dialogue System for Multimodal ECA Responses, IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR), Osaka, Japan, 2026, pp. 85-97, https://doi.org/10.1109/AIxVR67263.2026.00019
  • Lisa Gottschalk, Alice Katharina Schirrmeister, Alon Fishman, Joana Cholin, and Stefan Kopp. 2026. The Role of Gestures in the Perception of Creative One-Word References Produced by Humans and Virtual Agents. In Proc. of the 26th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2026). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 8, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3806774.3827974
  • Lou Thual, Charlotte Menard, and Florian Pécune. 2026. Evaluating the Cognitive Impact of Interacting with an Embodied Conversational Agent for Sleep Disorders: A Comparison Between Clinical and General Populations. In Proc. of the 26th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2026). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 34, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3806774.3832788
  • Luca Marconi, Luca Longo, and Federico Cabitza. 2026. Assessing Interaction Quality in Human–AI Dialogue: An Integrative Review and Multi-Layer Framework for Conversational Agents. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction 8, no. 2: 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/make8020028
  • Michael Yin, Angela Chiang, Samuel Rhys Cox, and Robert Xiao. 2026. "It Felt a Bit Eerie": Exploring Humanlike Interactions During Collaborative Writing with an Artificial Agent. arXiv:2605.24729. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.24729
  • Mohammed Al Owayyed, Myrthe L. Tielman, and Willem-Paul Brinkman. 2026. Simulation-based training for child helpline counsellors: Impact of simulation, feedback, and reflection in a randomised controlled trial, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 217, 2027, 103923, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2026.103923
  • Mohammed Al Owayyed, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Kathleen W. Guan, Leos Keijsers, and Myrthe L. Tielman. 2026. Training Child Helpline Counselors with Value-Integrated Chat Simulations. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2026.2645437
  • Nathália Cauás, Laura Triglia, Leandro Honorato, Pablo Barros, Bruno J. T. Fernandes, and Alessandra Sciutti. 2026. Nova: A Novel Approach for Game Narration. In: Staffa, M., et al., Social Robotics + AI. ICSR+AI 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16133. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-2398-6_9
  • Nicolai Hejlesen Jørgensen, Sarmilan Tharmabalan, Ilhan Aslan, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, and Timothy Merritt. 2026. Guiding, Not Railroading: Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Agent System for Narrative Redirection in Role-playing Games. In Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '26). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1551–1601.https://doi.org/10.1145/3742413.3789218
  • Phillip Richter, Kira Sophie Loos, Josef El Dib, Mara Brandt, Heiko Wersing, and Anna-Lisa Vollmer. 2026. A Comparative Assessment of the Social Robots Blossom and Miroka using ASAQ and ASOR. In Companion Proc. of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 741–745. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794494
  • Sofía Álvarez-Arias, Marcos Maroto-Gómez, Sara Carrasco-Martínez, María Malfaz and Miguel Ángel Salichs. 2026. Learning to Act with Rainbow! Deep Reinforcement Learning for Biologically Inspired Autonomous Robots. Int J of Soc Robotics. 18, 103.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-026-01427-6
  • Tiffany Matej Hrkalovic, Bernd Dudzik, Chenxu Hao, and Martijn C. Willemsen. 2026. User Reliance on AI Support for Collaborative Partner Selection. In Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '26). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1951–1967. https://doi.org/10.1145/3742413.3789082
  • Walter van der Weegen, Thomas Timmers, Maud Jacobs, Katja Saris, and Sebastiaan A.W. van de Groes. 2026. Human interaction with a virtual assistant in preparation for in-hospital orthopedic consultation. A feasibility and acceptability study in older adults with osteoarthritis. PEC Innovation. Volume 8, 100446, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecinn.2025.100446.
  • Zhuo Chen and Ping Li. 2026. Awakening Local Knowledge: A Multi-agent System for Communicative Elicitation and Generative Translation in Community Micro-renewal. In: Stephanidis, C., Margetis, G., Ntoa, S., Antona, M., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2026 Posters. HCII 2026. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 3050. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-30826-9_40

2025: 

  • Annika Rittmann, Susanne Schmidt, and Frank Steinicke. 2025. The Impact of the Race of Intelligent Virtual Agents on the Trust in AI-Based Recommendations. In Proc. of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 25, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3717511.3747083
  • I-Chen Lo and Pei-Luen Patrick Rau. 2025. D-Twins: Your Digital Twin Designed for Real-Time Boredom Intervention. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 321, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714163
  • Dimitry Mindlin, Meisam Booshehri, and Philipp Cimiano. 2026. Towards Co-Constructed Explanations: A Multi-Agent Reasoning-Based Conversational System for Adaptive Explanations. In Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 148–157. https://doi.org/10.1145/3765766.3765768
  • Hendric Voss and Stefan Kopp. 2025. ImaGGen: Zero-Shot Generation of Co-Speech Semantic Gestures Grounded in Language and Image Input, arXiv:2510.17617, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.17617
  • Markus Schmidbauer, Johanna Pirker, Elisabeth Mayer, and Thomas Odaker. 2025. Social Presence in Virtual Reality: A Comparative Study of AI NPCs and Human Instructors. In Proceedings of the 2025 18th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games (MIG '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 17, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3769047.3769051
  • Martin Dierikx, Nele Albers, Bouke L. Scheltinga, and Willem-Paul Brinkman, WP. (2024). Collaboratively Setting Daily Step Goals with a Virtual Coach: Using Reinforcement Learning to Personalize Initial Proposals. In: Baghaei, N., Ali, R., Win, K., Oyibo, K. (eds) Persuasive Technology. PERSUASIVE 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58226-4_9
  • Mohammed Al Owayyed, Adarsh Denga, and Willem-Paul Brinkman. 2025. Controlled Yet Natural: A Hybrid BDI-LLM Conversational Agent for Child Helpline Training. In Proc. of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 17, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3717511.3747075
  • Nandkumar Chandran and Peternel Luka. Enhancing supermarket robot interaction: an equitable multi-level LLM conversational interface for handling diverse customer intents. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 12. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2025.1576348
  • Ojas Shirekar, Wim Pouw, Chenxu Hao, Vrushank Phadnis, Thabo Beeler, and Chirag Raman. 2025. Multimodal Quantitative Measures for Multiparty Behavior Evaluation. In Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 249–264. https://doi.org/10.1145/3716553.3750752
  • Travis Dow, Pratishtha Pratishtha, Lorans Alabood, Vikram K. Jaswal, and Diwakar Krishnamurthy. 2025. AR-Based Embodied Avatar Assistance for Nonspeaking Autistic People? Design and Feasibility Study. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 423–440. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735807

2024:

  • Amal Abdulrahman, Katherine Hopman, and Deborah Richards. 2024. Do Not Freak Me Out! The Impact of Lip Movement and Appearance on Knowledge Gain and Confidence. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 8, no. 3: 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti8030022<
  • Anatoly A. Dolgikh and Alexei V. Samsonovich. 2024. A Socially Acceptable Conversational Agent Based on Cognitive Modeling and Machine Learning. In: Samsonovich, A.V., Liu, T. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2023. BICA 2023. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1130. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50381-8_31
  • Charlotte Menard, Julien Coelho, Etienne De Sevin, Yannick Levavasseur, Pierre Philip, and Florian Pecune. 2024. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the acceptability of an Embodied Conversational Agent for insomnia screening. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 38, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3652988.3673940

2023:

  • Fabien Boucaud, Catherine Pelachaud, and Indira Thouvenin. 2023. "It patted my arm": Investigating Social Touch from a Virtual Agent. In Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 72–80. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623809.3623853
  • Jonathan Ehret, Andrea Bönsch, Patrick Nossol, Cosima A. Ermert, Chinthusa Mohanathasan, Sabine J. Schlittmeier, Janina Fels, and Torsten W. Kuhlen. 2023. Who's next? Integrating Non-Verbal Turn-Taking Cues for Embodied Conversational Agents. In Proc. of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 27, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570945.3607312
  • Özge Nilay Yalçın. 2023. How (not) to Evaluate Computational Empathy: Testing the Assumptions of the Evaluation Methods in a Use-Case," in 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-7, https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ACIIW59127.2023.10388150.

  • Katarzyna Pasternak, Christopher Duarte, Julio Ojalvo, Christine Lisetti, and Ubbo Visser. (2024). 3D Multimodal Socially Interactive Robot with ChatGPT Active Listening. In: Buche, C., Rossi, A., Simões, M., Visser, U. (eds) RoboCup 2023: Robot World Cup XXVI. RoboCup 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55015-7_4

     

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