— Publications

A selection from
two decades of work.

1,019 total citations · h-index 14 · i10-index 18. This page lists selected and recent work. The complete list lives on Google Scholar.

2026

  1. Rapid Judgment in the Age of AI: A Thin-Slice Study of Virtual Humans to Support Caregivers

    Mozgai, S., Rabovich, L., Nguyen, C., Seymore, K., Kietz, T., Rao, S., Angrisani, M.

    Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) — manuscript under review

  2. Rapid Personalized Doppelgänger Avatar Generation: Dyadic Evaluation of the TAC-Twin Virtual Human Pipeline

    Mozgai, S., Fast, K. K., Sookiassian, E., Leeds, A., Hartholt, A.

    Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET-AI)

  3. Public Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence and Conversational Technologies: Evidence from the Understanding America Study

    Angrisani, M., Rabinovich, L., Mozgai, S., Fast, N.

    American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)

2025

  1. Estuary: A Framework for Building Multimodal Low-Latency Real-Time Socially Interactive Agents

    Lin, S., Rizk, B., Jun, M., Artze, A., Sullivan, C., Mozgai, S., Fisher, S.

    ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

  2. Optimizing SIA Development: A Case Study in User-Centered Design for Estuary, a Multimodal Socially Interactive Agent Framework

    Lin, S., Jun, M., Rizk, B., Shieh, K., Fisher, S., Mozgai, S.

    ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  3. Expert Consensus Best Practices for the Safe, Ethical, and Effective Design and Implementation of AI Conversational Agent Technologies in Healthcare Settings

    Rizzo, A., Mozgai, S., Sigaras, A., Rubin, J. E., Jotwani, R.

    Journal of Medical Extended Reality, 2(1)

  4. Multi-Platform Intelligent Agents with the Virtual Human Toolkit

    Hartholt, A., Fast, E., Kim, K., Leeds, A., Sookiassian, E., Mozgai, S.

    ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

2024

  1. Accelerating Scoping Reviews: A Case Study in the User-Centered Design of an AI-Enabled Interdisciplinary Research Tool

    Mozgai, S., Kaurloto, C., Winn, J., Leeds, A., Beland, S., Sookiassian, A., Hartholt, A.

    ACM CHI Extended Abstracts

  2. Multidisciplinary Research & Development of Multi-Agents and Virtual Humans Leveraging Integrated Middleware Platforms

    Hartholt, A., Leeds, A., Fast, E., Sookiassian, E., Kim, K., Beland, B., Kulkarni, P., Mozgai, S.

    Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI), Vol. 69

  3. Settling the Score: Virtual Reality as a Tool to Enhance Trauma-Focused Therapy for PTSD

    Rizzo, A. S., Hartholt, A., Mozgai, S.

    Handbook of Media Psychology, pp. 187–213. Springer Nature · 12 citations

2023

  1. Persuasive Technology for Suicide Prevention: A Virtual Human mHealth Application

    Mozgai, S., Rizzo, A., Hartholt, A.

    18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (Best Technical Demonstration Award)

  2. Machine Learning for Semi-Automated Scoping Reviews

    Mozgai, S., Kaurloto, C., Winn, J., Leeds, A., Heylen, D., Hartholt, A., Scherer, S.

    Intelligent Systems with Applications

  3. Toward a Scoping Review of Social Intelligence in Virtual Humans

    Mozgai, S., Beland, S., Leeds, A., Winn, J., Kaurloto, C., Heylen, D., Hartholt, A.

    Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Agents (SIVA), IEEE FG

  4. Creating Virtual Worlds with the Virtual Human Toolkit and the Rapid Integration & Development Environment

    Hartholt, A., Mozgai, S.

    Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI), Vol. 69

2022

  1. Re-Architecting the Virtual Human Toolkit: Towards an Interoperable Platform for Embodied Conversational Agent Research and Development

    Hartholt, A., Fast, E., Kim, K., Leeds, A., Li, Z., Mozgai, S.

    ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) · 13 citations

  2. Demonstrating RIDE: ECA and Multiagent Capabilities

    Hartholt, A., Fast, E., Leeds, A., Kim, K., Gordon, A., McCullough, K., Ustun, V., Mozgai, S.

    AAMAS Demonstration Track

  3. Platforms and Tools for Socially Interactive Agent Research and Development

    Hartholt, A., Mozgai, S.

    The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents, Vol. 2. ACM

  4. Toward a Semi-Automated Scoping Review of Virtual Human Smiles

    Mozgai, S., Winn, J., Kaurloto, C., Leeds, A., Heylen, D., Hartholt, A.

    Workshop on Smiling and Laughter Across Contexts and the Life-Span, LREC

2021

  1. Building BRAVEMIND Vietnam: User-Centered Design for Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

    Mozgai, S., Leeds, A., Kwok, D., Fast, E., Rizzo, A. S., Hartholt, A.

    IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) · 9 citations

  2. From Combat to COVID-19 — Managing the Impact of Trauma Using Virtual Reality

    Rizzo, A. S., Hartholt, A., Mozgai, S.

    Journal of Technology in Human Services, 39(3) · 25 citations

  3. Rapid Prototyping for Simulation and Training with RIDE

    Hartholt, A., McCullough, K., Fast, E., Reilly, A., Leeds, A., Mozgai, S., Aris, T., Ustun, V., Gordon, A., McGroarty, C.

    I/ITSEC (Best Paper Award)

  4. User-Centered Design Model for Mobile Health (mHealth) Applications: A Military Case Study in Rapid Assessment Process (RAP)

    Mozgai, S., Femminella, B., Hartholt, A., Rizzo, A. S.

    ACM CHI Extended Abstracts

  5. Introducing VHMason: A Visual, Integrated, Multimodal Virtual Human Authoring Tool

    Hartholt, A., Fast, E., Leeds, A., Mozgai, S.

    ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

2020

  1. The Effects of Experience on Deception in Human-Agent Negotiation

    Mell, J., Lucas, G., Mozgai, S., Gratch, J.

    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 68 · 38 citations

  2. Iterative Participatory Design for VRET Domain Transfer: From Combat Exposure to Military Sexual Trauma

    Mozgai, S., Hartholt, A., Leeds, A., Rizzo, A. S.

    ACM CHI Extended Abstracts · 25 citations

  3. An Adaptive Agent-Based Interface for Personalized Health Interventions

    Mozgai, S., Hartholt, A., Rizzo, A. S.

    ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Companion · 12 citations

  4. Multi-Platform Expansion of the Virtual Human Toolkit: Ubiquitous Conversational Agents

    Hartholt, A., Fast, E., Reilly, A., Whitcup, W., Liewer, M., Mozgai, S.

    International Journal of Semantic Computing, 14(03) · 15 citations

  5. The Passive Sensing Agent: A Multimodal Adaptive mHealth Application

    Mozgai, S., Hartholt, A., Rizzo, A.

    IEEE PerCom Workshops

  6. Development and Initial Feasibility Testing of the Virtual Research Navigator (VRN)

    Mozgai, S., Hartholt, A., Akinyemi, D., Kubicek, K., Kipke, M.

    HCI International (HCII)

2019

  1. Systematic Representative Design and Clinical Virtual Reality

    Mozgai, S., Hartholt, A., Rizzo, A.

    Psychological Inquiry, 30(4)

  2. Ubiquitous Virtual Humans: A Multi-Platform Framework for Embodied AI Agents in XR

    Hartholt, A., Fast, E., Reilly, A., Whitcup, W., Liewer, M., Mozgai, S.

    IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) · 28 citations

  3. Virtual Humans in Augmented Reality: A First Step Towards Real-World Embedded Virtual Roleplayers

    Hartholt, A., Mozgai, S., Fast, E., Liewer, M., Reilly, A., Whitcup, W., Rizzo, A.

    International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) · 35 citations

  4. Emotion Regulation in the Prisoner's Dilemma: Effects of Reappraisal on Behavioral and Cardiovascular Measures of Challenge and Threat

    Chu, V. C., Lucas, G. M., Lei, S., Mozgai, S., Khooshabeh, P., Gratch, J.

    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13 · 14 citations

  5. Virtual Job Interviewing Practice for High-Anxiety Populations

    Hartholt, A., Mozgai, S., Thompson, R., Rizzo, A.

    ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) · 21 citations

2018

  1. NADiA: Neural Network Driven Virtual Human Conversation Agents

    Wu, J., Ghosh, S., Chollet, M., Ly, S., Mozgai, S., Scherer, S.

    ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) · 37 citations

  2. What Type of Happiness Are You Looking For? A Closer Look at Detecting Mental Health from Language

    Arseniev-Koehler, A., Mozgai, S., Scherer, S.

    CLPsych Workshop, ACL · 34 citations

  3. Towards a Repeated Negotiating Agent that Treats People Individually: Cooperation, Social Value Orientation, & Machiavellianism

    Mell, J., Lucas, G., Mozgai, S., Boberg, J., Artstein, R., Gratch, J.

    ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) · 12 citations

2017

  1. AVEC 2017: Real-Life Depression and Affect Recognition Workshop and Challenge

    Ringeval, F., Schuller, B., Valstar, M., Gratch, J., Cowie, R., Scherer, S., Mozgai, S., Pantic, M.

    Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC), ACM Multimedia · 490 citations

  2. To Tell the Truth: Virtual Agents and Morning Morality

    Mozgai, S., Lucas, G., Gratch, J.

    International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Springer · 15 citations

  3. The Relationship Between Task-Induced Stress, Vocal Changes, and Physiological State During a Dyadic Team Task

    Neubauer, C., Chollet, M., Mozgai, S., Dennison, M., Khooshabeh, P., Scherer, S.

    ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) · 18 citations

  4. Manual and Automatic Measures Confirm: Intranasal Oxytocin Increases Facial Expressivity

    Neubauer, C., Mozgai, S., Chuang, B., Woolley, J., Scherer, S.

    Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)

2013

  1. Transitions Asia: Managing Across Cultures

    Chua, R. Y. J., Mozgai, S., Lau, D.

    Harvard Business School Teaching Note 414-045

2012

  1. Telephone-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Pain Management Among Older Military Veterans: A Randomized Trial

    Carmody, T. P., Duncan, C. L., Huggins, J., Solkowitz, S. N., Lee, S. K., Reyes, N., Mozgai, S., Simon, J. A.

    Psychological Services · 64 citations