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  • 2014 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to the fields of affective computing, virtual human research and autonomous systems.

Overview

Jonathan Gratch is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on psychology, computer science, and social sciences. Within these broad areas, Gratch's work delves deeply into artificial intelligence, social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, and safety research.

The main topics addressed in Gratch's publications include multi-agent systems and negotiation, topic modeling, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, conflict management and negotiation, ethics and social impacts of AI, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction, and action observation and synchronization.

Gratch has contributed to several notable recent papers, including:

  • The rise of affectivism (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • The avatar will see you now: Support from a virtual human provides socio-emotional benefits (2022, Computers in Human Behavior)
  • The power to harm: AI assistants pave the way to unethical behavior (2022, Current Opinion in Psychology)
  • Comparing mind perception in strategic exchanges: human-agent negotiation, dictator and ultimatum games (2021, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces)
  • Algorithmic management diminishes status: An unintended consequence of using machines to perform social roles (2023, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gratch include Gale Lucas, Kushal Chawla, Johnathan Mell, Jonathan May, and Catherine Pélachaud. This network reflects a sustained engagement in collaborative research efforts.

Gratch's publications often appear in venues with a focus on computing and human behavior, including arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

In recognition of their contributions, Gratch was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2014, cited for their work in affective computing, virtual human research, and autonomous systems.

Best Publications

  • A domain-independent framework for modeling emotion

    Jonathan Gratch;Stacy Marsella

  • It's only a computer

    Gale M. Lucas;Jonathan Gratch;Aisha King;Louis-Philippe Morency

  • AVEC 2016: Depression, Mood, and Emotion Recognition Workshop and Challenge

    Michel Valstar;Jonathan Gratch;Björn Schuller;Fabien Ringeval

  • SimSensei kiosk: a virtual human interviewer for healthcare decision support

    David DeVault;Ron Artstein;Grace Benn;Teresa Dey

  • EMA: A process model of appraisal dynamics

    Stacy C. Marsella;Jonathan Gratch

  • Creating interactive virtual humans: some assembly required

    J. Gratch;J. Rickel;E. Andre;J. Cassell

  • Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents

    Jonathan Gratch;Ning Wang;Jillian Gerten;Edward Fast

  • The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing

    Rafael A. Calvo;Sidney D'Mello;Jonathan Gratch;Arvid Kappas

  • The Distress Analysis Interview Corpus of human and computer interviews

    Jonathan Gratch;Ron Artstein;Gale Lucas;Giota stratou

  • It doesn't matter what you are! Explaining social effects of agents and avatars

    Astrid M. von der Pütten;Nicole C. Krämer;Jonathan Gratch;Sin-Hwa Kang

  • AVEC 2017: Real-life Depression, and Affect Recognition Workshop and Challenge

    Fabien Ringeval;Björn Schuller;Michel Valstar;Jonathan Gratch

  • Tears and fears: modeling emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents

    Jonathan Gratch;Stacy Marsella

  • Toward virtual humans

    William Swartout;Jonathan Gratch;Randall W. Hill;Eduard Hovy

  • Toward the holodeck: integrating graphics, sound, character and story

    R. Hill;J. Gratch;W. L. Johnson;C. Kyriakakis

  • Virtual rapport

    Jonathan Gratch;Anna Okhmatovskaia;Francois Lamothe;Stacy Marsella

  • Reporting Mental Health Symptoms: Breaking Down Barriers to Care with Virtual Human Interviewers

    Gale M. Lucas;Albert A. Rizzo;Jonathan Gratch;Stefan Scherer

  • Toward a new generation of virtual humans for interactive experiences

    J. Rickel;S. Marsella;J. Gratch;R. Hill

  • Reading people’s minds from emotion expressions in interdependent decision making.

    Celso M. de Melo;Peter J. Carnevale;Stephen J. Read;Jonathan Gratch

  • When the going gets tough: Grit predicts costly perseverance

    Gale M. Lucas;Jonathan Gratch;Lin Cheng;Stacy Marsella

  • All Together Now

    Arno Hartholt;David Traum;Stacy C. Marsella;Ari Shapiro

  • Computational Models of Emotion

    Stacy C. Marsella;Jonathan Gratch;Paola Petta

Frequent Co-Authors

Stacy Marsella
Stacy Marsella Northeastern University
Louis-Philippe Morency
Louis-Philippe Morency Carnegie Mellon University
David Traum
David Traum University of Southern California
Peter J. Carnevale
Peter J. Carnevale University of Southern California
Albert Rizzo
Albert Rizzo University of Southern California
William R. Swartout
William R. Swartout University of Southern California
Björn Schuller
Björn Schuller Imperial College London
Nicole C. Krämer
Nicole C. Krämer University of Duisburg-Essen
Michel Valstar
Michel Valstar University of Nottingham

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