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Timothy Bickmore is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on General Health Professions, Applied Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's body of work includes topics such as Digital Mental Health Interventions, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, AI in Service Interactions, Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Medication Adherence and Compliance, Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Recent publications by Timothy Bickmore include:

  • Improving the health of young African American women in the preconception period using health information technology: a randomised controlled trial (2020) - The Lancet Digital Health
  • The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology Trial: Pilot Trial of a Mobile Health App for Atrial Fibrillation (2020) - JMIR Cardio
  • Designing empathic virtual agents: manipulating animation, voice, rendering, and empathy to create persuasive agents (2022) - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Utility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories among vulnerable patient populations: A randomized controlled trial (2021) - Patient Education and Counseling
  • Effects of Counseling by Peer Human Advisors vs Computers to Increase Walking in Underserved Populations (2020) - JAMA Internal Medicine

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
  • Clevanne Julce
  • Everlyne Kimani
  • Stefán Ólafsson
  • Prasanth Murali

Timothy Bickmore has published extensively in several venues with the highest number of publications appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), followed by JMIR Cardio, Journal of Medical Internet Research, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Best Publications

  • BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit

    Justine Cassell;Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson;Timothy Bickmore

  • Establishing and maintaining long-term human-computer relationships

    Timothy W. Bickmore;Rosalind W. Picard

  • 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

  • Method and apparatus for embodied conversational characters with multimodal input/output in an interface device

    Scott A. Prevost;Timothy W. Bickmore;Joseph W. Sullivan;Elizabeth Churchill

  • Establishing the computer-patient working alliance in automated health behavior change interventions.

    Timothy Bickmore;Amanda Gruber;Rosalind Picard

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

    Justine Cassell;Tim Bickmore;Lee Campbell;Hannes Vilhjálmsson

  • Digestor: device-independent access to the World Wide Web

    Timothy W. Bickmore;Bill N. Schilit

  • Social Dialongue with Embodied Conversational Agents

    Timothy Bickmore;Justine Cassell

  • 'It's just like you talk to a friend' relational agents for older adults

    Timothy W. Bickmore;Lisa Caruso;Kerri Clough-Gorr;Tim Heeren

  • External manifestations of trustworthiness in the interface

    Justine Cassell;Timothy Bickmore

  • Relational agents : effecting change through human-computer relationships

    Timothy W Bickmore

  • Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents

    Timothy W. Bickmore;Laura M. Pfeifer;Brian W. Jack

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

    Justine Cassell;Timothy Bickmore

  • A basic agent

    Steven Vere;Timothy Bickmore

  • Health dialog systems for patients and consumers

    Timothy Bickmore;Toni Giorgino

  • MAINTAINING ENGAGEMENT IN LONG-TERM INTERVENTIONS WITH RELATIONAL AGENTS

    Timothy Bickmore;Daniel Schulman;Langxuan Yin

  • Non-Verbal Cues for Discourse Structure

    Justine Cassell;Yukiko Nakano;Timothy W. Bickmore;Candace L. Sidner

  • Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant

    Timothy W Bickmore;Ha Trinh;Stefan Olafsson;Teresa K O'Leary

  • Automatic document re-authoring method and system therefor

    Timothy W Bickmore;Andreas Girgensohn;William N Schilit;Joseph W Sullivan

  • Maintaining reality: Relational agents for antipsychotic medication adherence

    Timothy W. Bickmore;Kathryn Puskar;Elizabeth A. Schlenk;Laura M. Pfeifer

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
Michael K. Paasche-Orlow Boston University
Justine Cassell
Justine Cassell Carnegie Mellon University
Candace L. Sidner
Candace L. Sidner Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Elizabeth F. Churchill
Elizabeth F. Churchill Google (United States)
Michael Winter
Michael Winter Boston University
Andreas Girgensohn
Andreas Girgensohn FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Charles Rich
Charles Rich Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lynn Wilcox
Lynn Wilcox FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Stephen S. Intille
Stephen S. Intille Northeastern University

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