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Deborah Richards

Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7363-1511
  • 903 Citations
  • 14 h-Index
1997 …2023
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Personal profile

Biography

http://comp.mq.edu.au/~richards/

Research interests

Intelligent Virtual Agents

Virtual Reality for Education and Health

Virtual Worlds

Knowledge Acquisition

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Projects 2006 2023

Cybersecurity ethics training simulations for values-based decision-making

Richards, D., Ryan, M., Formosa, P., Hitchens, M., Dignum, V. & McEwan, M.

1/12/19 → 30/06/23

Project: Research

eADVICE - Advice while you wait: Empowering families, improving health, reducing waiting times

Caldwell, P. H. Y., Richards, D., Seton, C., Waters, K. A., Deshpande, A. V., Scott, K. M., Teixeira-Pinto, A., Howell, M., Griffin, L., Craig, J. C. & Howard, K.

6/11/18 → 30/08/20

Project: Other

Adaptive and Tailored Intelligent Virtual Agents for Human Behaviour Change, Therapy and Ethics Training

Richards, D.

1/01/18 → …

Project: Research

Designing a program based career information literacy learning system

Lin-Stephens, S., Richards, D. & Smith, S.

1/01/16 → 30/06/17

Project: Teaching

Validating the effectiveness of the Moodle Engagement Block (MEB) and piloting a student alert system to optimise retention

Richards, D.

1/01/15 → 31/12/15

Project: Research

Research Outputs 1997 2019

A comparison of human and machine-generated voice

Abdulrahman, A., Richards, D. & Bilgin, A. A., Nov 2019, Proceedings - VRST 2019: 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. Spencer, S. N. (ed.). New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2 p. 41

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › Research › peer-review

Belief-based agent explanations to encourage behaviour change

Abdulrahman, A., Richards, D., Ranjbartabar, H. & Mascarenhas, S., 1 Jul 2019, ACM IVA '19 Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 176-178 3 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › Research › peer-review

Students
Decision making
Engines

Connecting users, data and utilization: a demand-side analysis of open government data

Wang, D., Richards, D. & Chen, C., 1 Jan 2019, Information in Contemporary Society: 14th International Conference, iConference 2019, Proceedings. Taylor, N. G., Christian-Lamb, C., Martin, M. H. & Nardi, B. (eds.). Switzerland: Springer-VDI-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, p. 488-500 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11420 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › Research › peer-review

Transparency
Education
Demand
Government
Disclosure

First impressions count! The role of the human's emotional state on rapport established with an empathic versus neutral virtual therapist

Ranjbartabar, H., Richards, D., Bilgin, A. & Kutay, C., 14 Feb 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Intelligent virtual agents
Experiments

Modelling therapeutic alliance using a user-aware explainable embodied conversational agent to promote treatment adherence

Abdulrahman, A. & Richards, D., 1 Jul 2019, ACM IVA '19 Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 248-251 4 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › Research › peer-review

Health
Decision making
Engines

Prizes

Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Jean-Christophe Froissard (Team leader), Deborah Richards (Recipient) & Amara Atif (Recipient), 1 Nov 2017

Prize: Teaching award

learning
student