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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions to human-computer interaction and advocacy for empowerment and voice through technology.
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Justine Cassell is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence. Additional areas of study include Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work covers diverse topics such as:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition

Justine Cassell has multiple publications in prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cognitive Science
  • Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Réseaux

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Justine Cassell include:

  • "Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences," 2023, Cognitive Science
  • "You might think about slightly revising the title": Identifying Hedges in Peer-tutoring Interactions," 2022, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  • "Socio-conversational systems: Three challenges at the crossroads of fields," 2022, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • "" Tisser des liens "," 2020, Réseaux
  • "Bringing together multimodal and multilevel approaches to study the emergence of social bonds between children and improve social AI," 2024, Frontiers in Neuroergonomics

Collaborative research is a significant part of their work. Frequent coauthors are:

  • Chloé Clavel
  • Matthieu Labeau
  • Alafate Abulimiti
  • Mark Dingemanse
  • Andreas Liesenfeld

Justine Cassell has received recognition including being named an ACM Fellow in 2016 for contributions to human-computer interaction and advocacy for empowerment and voice through technology. They were also elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit

    Justine Cassell;Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson;Timothy Bickmore

  • Embodied conversational agents

    Justine Cassell

  • From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: gender and computer games

    Justine Cassell;Henry Jenkins

  • Animated conversation: rule-based generation of facial expression, gesture & spoken intonation for multiple conversational agents

    Justine Cassell;Catherine Pelachaud;Norman Badler;Mark Steedman

  • Embodiment in conversational interfaces: Rea

    J. Cassell;T. Bickmore;M. Billinghurst;L. Campbell

  • Relational agents: a model and implementation of building user trust

    Timothy Bickmore;Justine Cassell

  • Embodied conversational interface agents

    Justine Cassell

  • The power of a nod and a glance: Envelope vs. emotional feedback in animated conversational agents

    Justine Cassell;Kristinn R. Thorisson

  • Creating interactive virtual humans: some assembly required

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

  • Speech-gesture mismatches: Evidence for one underlying representation of linguistic and nonlinguistic information

    Justine Cassell;David McNeill;Karl-Erik McCullough

  • Chess for girls? Feminism and computer games

    Justine Cassell;Henry Jenkins

  • Human conversation as a system framework: designing embodied conversational agents

    Justine Cassell;Tim Bickmore;Lee Campbell;Hannes Vilhjálmsson

  • Social Dialongue with Embodied Conversational Agents

    Timothy Bickmore;Justine Cassell

  • Making Space for Voice: Technologies to Support Children’s Fantasy and Storytelling

    J. Cassell;K. Ryokai

  • External manifestations of trustworthiness in the interface

    Justine Cassell;Timothy Bickmore

  • Virtual peers as partners in storytelling and literacy learning

    Kimiko Ryokai;Cati Vaucelle;Justine Cassell

  • Embodied Conversational Agents: Representation and Intelligence in User Interfaces

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  • Nudge nudge wink wink: elements of face-to-face conversation for embodied conversational agents

    Justine Cassell

  • The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges

    Hannes Vilhjálmsson;Nathan Cantelmo;Justine Cassell;Nicolas E. Chafai

  • Communicative Effects of Speech-Mismatched Gestures

    David McNeill;Justine Cassell;Karl-Erik McCullough

  • Negotiated Collusion: Modeling Social Language and its Relationship Effects in Intelligent Agents

    Justine Cassell;Timothy Bickmore

  • Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding

    Yukiko Nakano;Gabe Reinstein;Tom Stocky;Justine Cassell

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy Bickmore
Timothy Bickmore Northeastern University
Matthew Stone
Matthew Stone Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Catherine Pelachaud
Catherine Pelachaud Sorbonne University
Norman I. Badler
Norman I. Badler University of Pennsylvania
Louis-Philippe Morency
Louis-Philippe Morency Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Steedman
Mark Steedman University of Edinburgh
Johanna D. Moore
Johanna D. Moore University of Edinburgh
Robert Dale
Robert Dale Macquarie University
Jon Oberlander
Jon Oberlander University of Edinburgh
Stefan Kopp
Stefan Kopp Bielefeld University

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