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Deborah Richards

Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7363-1511
  • 793 Citations
  • 14 h-Index
19972020
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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 2020

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 › Sponsored clinical trial

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: Research

Intelligent Virtual Worlds for Inquiry Learning

Richards, D., Jacobson, M., Taylor, C., Sutherland, L., Kapur, M. & MQRES, M.

1/01/15 → 31/12/18

Project: Research

learning

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

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

Speech Act Theory as an evaluation tool for human–agent communication

Hanna, N. & Richards, D., 2019, In : Algorithms. 12, 4, p. 1-17 17 p., 79.

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

Open Access
File
Communication
Evaluation
Human Perception
Human
Speech

An analysis of interaction between users and open government data portals in data acquisition process

Wang, D., Richards, D. & Chen, C., 1 Jan 2018, Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems: 15th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2018, Proceedings. Yoshida, K. & Lee, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, Springer Nature, p. 184-200 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11016 LNAI).

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

Data Acquisition
Data acquisition
Data Quality
Interaction
RSS

An empathic virtual medical specialist: It's not what you say but how you say it

Richards, D. & Caldwell, P., 24 Apr 2018, Proceedings of the 2017 23rd International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2017. Goodman, L. & Addison, A. (eds.). Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Vol. 2018-January. p. 1-8 8 p.

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

Websites
Health
Pediatrics
Virtual Human
Communication