Benjamin Lok

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2001-2024
Publications (10 Years): 44

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IVA

Frontiers Virtual Real.

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.

ICALT

Publications

Christopher You, Tabitha C. Peck, Jacob Stuart, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok
What my bias meant for my embodiment: an investigation on virtual embodiment in desktop-based virtual reality. Frontiers Virtual Real. 5 (2024)
Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Chase Wrenn, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Rashi Ghosh, Jacob Stuart, Heng Yao, Benjamin Lok
Exploring the Effects of User-Agent and User-Designer Similarity in Virtual Human Design to Promote Mental Health Intentions for College Students. CoRR (2024)
Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Krishna Vaddiparti, Pavlo D. Antonenko, Benjamin Lok
Evaluating the Effect of Adapting Virtual Humans Based on Individual Differences in Users. HCI (26) (2024)
Rashi Ghosh, Andrew Maxim, Christopher You, Benjamin Lok
Real-Time Virtual Human for Promoting Clinical Trial Education and Recruitment. VR Workshops (2024)
Jacob Stuart, Anita Stephen, Karen Aul, Michael D. Bumbach, Shari Huffman, Brooke Russo, Benjamin Lok
Using augmented reality filters to display time-based visual cues. Frontiers Virtual Real. 4 (2023)
Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Chase Wrenn, Jacob Stuart, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok
Participatory Design of Virtual Humans for Mental Health Support Among North American Computer Science Students: Voice, Appearance, and the Similarity-attraction Effect. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 20 (3) (2023)
Andrew Maxim, Mohan Zalake, Benjamin Lok
The Impact of Virtual Human Vocal Personality on Establishing Rapport: A Study on Promoting Mental Wellness Through Extroversion and Vocalics. IVA (2023)
Rashi Ghosh, Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Jacob Stuart, Chase Wrenn, Benjamin Lok
Evaluating face gender cues in virtual humans within and beyond the gender binary. Frontiers Virtual Real. 4 (2023)
Jacob Stuart, Karen Aul, Michael D. Bumbach, Anita Stephen, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok
The Effect of Virtual Humans Making Verbal Communication Mistakes on Learners' Perspectives of their Credibility, Reliability, and Trustworthiness. VR (2022)
Stephanie Carnell, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Anna Miles, Benjamin Lok
Informing and Evaluating Educational Applications With the Kirkpatrick Model in Virtual Environments: Using a Virtual Human Scenario to Measure Communication Skills Behavior Change. Frontiers Virtual Real. 3 (2022)
Christopher You, Rashi Ghosh, Andrew Maxim, Jacob Stuart, Eric Cooks, Benjamin Lok
How does a virtual human earn your trust?: guidelines to improve willingness to self-disclose to intelligent virtual agents. IVA (2022)
Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Mohan Zalake, Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok
Can we talk about bruno?: exploring virtual human counselors' spoken accents and their impact on users' conversations. IVA (2022)
Jacob Stuart, Karen Aul, Anita Stephen, Michael D. Bumbach, Benjamin Lok
The Effect of Virtual Human Rendering Style on User Perceptions of Visual Cues. Frontiers Virtual Real. 3 (2022)
Christopher You, Brett Benda, Evan Suma Rosenberg, Eric D. Ragan, Benjamin Lok, Jerald Thomas
Strafing Gain: Redirecting Users One Diagonal Step at a Time. ISMAR (2022)
Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Anokhi Bafna, Devon Peterkin, Jenelle Richards, Megan L. Rogers, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok
A virtual human interaction using scaffolded ping-pong feedback for healthcare learners to practice empathy skills. IVA (2022)
Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Heng Yao, Anokhi Bafna, Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Jenelle Richards, Lauren B. Lloveras, Kathleen Feeney, Stephanie Morris, Erica D. Musser, Benjamin Lok, Igor Galynker
Investigating the Effects of Virtual Patients' Nonsensical Responses on Users' Facial Expressions in Mental Health Training Scenarios. VRST (2021)
Katarina Jurczyk, Christopher You, Mahsan Nourani, Manas Gupta, Lisa Anthony, Benjamin Lok
Romadoro: Leveraging Nudge Techniques to Encourage Break-Taking. UIST (Adjunct Volume) (2021)
Fatemeh Tavassoli, Diane M. Howell, Erik W. Black, Benjamin Lok, Juan E. Gilbert
JAYLA (Junior Agent to typifY Levels of Autism): A Virtual Training Platform to Teach Severity Levels of Autism. Frontiers Virtual Real. 2 (2021)
Mohan Zalake, Fatemeh Tavassoli, Kyle Duke, Thomas J. George, François Modave, Jordan Neil, Janice L. Krieger, Benjamin Lok
Internet-based tailored virtual human health intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening: design guidelines from two user studies. J. Multimodal User Interfaces 15 (2) (2021)
Mohan Zalake, Krishna Vaddiparti, Pavlo D. Antonenko, Benjamin Lok
Towards Understanding How Virtual Human's Verbal Persuasion Strategies Influence User Intentions To Perform Health Behavior. IVA (2021)
Fatemeh Tavassoli, Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, François Modave, Janice L. Krieger, Benjamin Lok, Juan E. Gilbert
Towards an Effective Web-Based Virtual Health Intervention: The Impact of Media Platform, Visual Framing, and Race on Social Presence and Transportation Ratings. HCI (17) (2021)
Melissa J. Vilaro, Danyell S. Wilson-Howard, Mohan Zalake, Fatemeh Tavassoli, Benjamin Lok, François Modave, Thomas J. George, Folakemi Odedina, Peter J. Carek, Janice L. Krieger
Key changes to improve social presence of a virtual health assistant promoting colorectal cancer screening informed by a technology acceptance model. BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak. 21 (1) (2021)
Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Krishna Vaddiparti, Benjamin Lok
The effects of virtual human's verbal persuasion strategies on user intention and behavior. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 156 (2021)
Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok, Felix G. Hamza-Lup
Effects of Virtual Humans' Gender and Spoken Accent on Users' Perceptions of Expertise in Mental Wellness Conversations. IVA (2021)
Stephanie Carnell, Anna Miles, Benjamin Lok
Evaluating Virtual Patient Interaction Fidelity With Advanced Communication Skills Learners. Frontiers Virtual Real. 2 (2021)
Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Jacob Stuart, Benjamin Lok
Toward Facilitating Team Formation and Communication Through Avatar Based Interaction in Desktop-Based Immersive Virtual Environments. Frontiers Virtual Real. 2 (2021)
Jacob Stuart, Ileri Akinnola, Frank Guido-Sanz, Mindi Anderson, Desiree Diaz, Greg Welch, Benjamin Lok
Applying Stress Management Techniques in Augmented Reality: Stress Induction and Reduction in Healthcare Providers During Virtual Triage Simulation. VR Workshops (2020)
Mohan Zalake, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Krishna Vaddiparti, Pavlo D. Antonenko, Felix G. Hamza-Lup, Benjamin Lok
Towards Rapid Development of Conversational Virtual Humans using Web3D Technologies. Web3D (2020)
Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok
Toward Automated Evaluation of Empathetic Responses in Virtual Human Interaction Systems for Mental Health Scenarios. IVA (2020)
Heng Yao, Meryl Alappattu, Michael E. Robinson, Benjamin Lok
Investigating Trainees' Nonverbal Behaviors in Virtual Patients Communication in Virtual Reality. VR Workshops (2020)
Stephanie Carnell, Benjamin Lok, Melva T. James, Jonathan K. Su
Predicting Student Success in Communication Skills Learning Scenarios with Virtual Humans. LAK (2019)
Oankar Patil, Heng Yao, Benjamin Lok
Impact of Gamified Interaction with Virtual Nature on Sustained Attention and Self-Reported Restoration - A Pilot Study. VRST (2019)
Mohan Zalake, Fatemeh Tavassoli, Lauren Griffin, Janice L. Krieger, Benjamin Lok
Internet-based Tailored Virtual Human Health Intervention to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening: Design Guidelines from Two User Studies. IVA (2019)
Mohan Zalake, Benjamin Lok
Non-Responsive Virtual Humans for Self-Report Assessments. IVA (2018)
Stephanie Carnell, Benjamin Lok
The Effects of Author Identity on Dialogue for Virtual Human Communication Skills Training. IVA (2018)
Sarah Morrison-Smith, Heng Yao, Isaac Wang, Benjamin Lok, Jaime Ruiz
Staying Alive With Virtual Humans. CHI Extended Abstracts (2018)
Shivashankar Halan, Isaac Sia, Anna Miles, Michael Crary, Benjamin Lok
Engineering Social Agent Creation into an Opportunity for Interviewing and Interpersonal Skills Training: Socially Interactive Agents Track. AAMAS (2018)
Mohan Zalake, Julia Woodward, Amanpreet Kapoor, Benjamin Lok
Assessing the Impact of Virtual Human's Appearance on Users' Trust Levels. IVA (2018)
Andrew Cordar, Adam Wendling, Casey White, Samsun Lampotang, Benjamin Lok
Repeat after me: Using mixed reality humans to influence best communication practices. VR (2017)
Andrew C. Robb, Andrea Kleinsmith, Andrew Cordar, Casey White, Samsun Lampotang, Adam Wendling, Benjamin Lok
Do Variations in Agency Indirectly Affect Behavior with Others? An Analysis of Gaze Behavior. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 22 (4) (2016)
Michael Borish, Benjamin Lok
Rapid Low-Cost Virtual Human Bootstrapping via the Crowd. ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 7 (4) (2016)
Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Andrea Kleinsmith, Gail Childs, Roberta Pileggi, Benjamin Lok
Self-Assessment Through Interactive In-Action Reflections to Improve Interpersonal Skills Training. ICALT (2016)
Andrew C. Robb, Andrea Kleinsmith, Andrew Cordar, Casey White, Adam Wendling, Samsun Lampotang, Benjamin Lok
Training Together: How Another Human Trainee's Presence Affects Behavior during Virtual Human-Based Team Training. Frontiers ICT 3 (2016)
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Training with Virtual Operating Room Teammates to Influence Team Behaviors. CTS (2016)
Stephanie Carnell, Shivashankar Halan, Michael Crary, Aarthi Madhavan, Benjamin Lok
Adapting Virtual Patient Interviews for Interviewing Skills Training of Novice Healthcare Students. IVA (2015)
Andrew C. Robb, Casey White, Andrew Cordar, Adam Wendling, Samsun Lampotang, Benjamin Lok
A comparison of speaking up behavior during conflict with real and virtual humans. Comput. Hum. Behav. 52 (2015)
Andrew C. Robb, Andrew Cordar, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Casey White, Adam Wendling, Benjamin Lok
Teaming Up with Virtual Humans: How Other People Change Our Perceptions of and Behavior with Virtual Teammates. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 21 (4) (2015)
Shivashankar Halan, Isaac Sia, Michael Crary, Benjamin Lok
Exploring the Effects of Healthcare Students Creating Virtual Patients for Empathy Training. IVA (2015)
Andrew Cordar, Andrew C. Robb, Adam Wendling, Samsun Lampotang, Casey White, Benjamin Lok
Virtual Role-Models: Using Virtual Humans to Train Best Communication Practices for Healthcare Teams. IVA (2015)
Andrea Kleinsmith, Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Glen Finney, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok
Understanding empathy training with virtual patients. Comput. Hum. Behav. 52 (2015)
Andrew C. Robb, Benjamin Lok
Social presence in mixed agency interactions. VR (2014)
Andrew C. Robb, Casey White, Andrew Cordar, Adam Wendling, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Benjamin Lok
A Qualitative Evaluation of Behavior during Conflict with an Authoritative Virtual Human. IVA (2014)
Victoria Interrante, Daniel F. Keefe, Benjamin Lok, Greg Welch
Message from the General Chairs. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 20 (4) (2014)
Shivashankar Halan, Benjamin Lok, Isaac Sia, Michael Crary
Virtual Agent Constructionism: Experiences from Health Professions Students Creating Virtual Conversational Agent Representations of Patients. ICALT (2014)
Andrew Cordar, Michael Borish, Adriana Foster, Benjamin Lok
Building Virtual Humans with Back Stories: Training Interpersonal Communication Skills in Medical Students. IVA (2014)
Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Rick Ferdig, Jian Li, Benjamin Lok
Getting the Point Across: Exploring the Effects of Dynamic Virtual Humans in an Interactive Museum Exhibit on User Perceptions. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 20 (4) (2014)
Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Regis Kopper, Andrea Kleinsmith, Juan Cendan, Glen Finney, Benjamin Lok
Exploring Gender Biases with Virtual Patients for High Stakes Interpersonal Skills Training. IVA (2014)
Benjamin Lok, Joon Hao Chuah, Andrew C. Robb, Andrew Cordar, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Adam Wendling, Casey White
Mixed-Reality Humans for Team Training. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 34 (3) (2014)
Jason Jendrusch, Samsun Lampotang, David E. Lizdas, Nikolaus Gravenstein, Dwayne Ham, Benjamin Lok, John Quarles
Virtual Humans for Inter-Ethnic Variability Training in Sedation and Analgesia. MMVR (2014)
Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Andrea Kleinsmith, Teresa Johnson, Rebecca Lyons, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok
Towards a Reflective Practicum of Embodied Conversational Agent Experiences. ICALT (2014)
Joon Hao Chuah, Andrew C. Robb, Casey White, Adam Wendling, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Regis Kopper, Benjamin Lok
Exploring Agent Physicality and Social Presence for Medical Team Training. Presence Teleoperators Virtual Environ. 22 (2) (2013)
Laura D. Wandner, Steven Z. George, Benjamin Lok, Calia A. Torres, Joon Hao Chuah, Michael E. Robinson
Pain Assessment and Treatment Decisions for Virtual Human Patients. Cyberpsychology Behav. Soc. Netw. 16 (12) (2013)
Andrew C. Robb, Regis Kopper, Ravi Ambani, Farda Qayyum, David Lind, Li-Ming Su, Benjamin Lok
Leveraging Virtual Humans to Effectively Prepare Learners for Stressful Interpersonal Experiences. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 19 (4) (2013)
John Quarles, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Ira Fischler, Paul A. Fishwick, Benjamin Lok
Experiences in mixed reality-based collocated after action review. Virtual Real. 17 (3) (2013)
Joon Hao Chuah, Benjamin Lok, Erik W. Black
Applying Mixed Reality to Simulate Vulnerable Populations for Practicing Clinical Communication Skills. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 19 (4) (2013)
Benjamin Lok, Greg Welch
Message from the General Chairs. VR (2013)
Joon Hao Chuah, Andrew C. Robb, Casey White, Adam Wendling, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Regis Kopper, Benjamin Lok
Increasing agent physicality to raise social presence and elicit realistic behavior. VR (2012)
Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Greg Welch, Peter Lincoln, Mary C. Whitton, Juan Cendan, David A. Chesnutt, Henry Fuchs, Benjamin Lok
Shader Lamps Virtual Patients: the Physical Manifestation of Virtual Patients. MMVR (2012)
Vaishnavi Krishnan, Adriana Foster, Regis Kopper, Benjamin Lok
Virtual Human Personality Masks: A Human Computation Approach to Modeling Verbal Personalities in Virtual Humans. IVA (2012)
Joon Hao Chuah, Benjamin Lok
Experiences in Using a Smartphone as a Virtual Reality Interaction Device. Int. J. Virtual Real. 11 (3) (2012)
Brent Rossen, Benjamin Lok
A crowdsourcing method to develop virtual human conversational agents. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud. 70 (4) (2012)
Joon Hao Chuah, Benjamin Lok
Hybrid virtual-physical entities. ISMAR (2012)
Richard E. Ferdig, Katherine Schottke, Diego J. Rivera-Gutierrez, Benjamin Lok
Assessing Past, Present, and Future Interactions with Virtual Patients. Int. J. Gaming Comput. Mediat. Simulations 4 (3) (2012)
Aaron Kotranza, D. Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok
Real-Time Evaluation and Visualization of Learner Performance in a Mixed-Reality Environment for Clinical Breast Examination. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 18 (7) (2012)
Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Michael Crary, Benjamin Lok
Constructionism of virtual humans to improve perceptions of conversational partners. CHI Extended Abstracts (2012)
Chen Lin, Candelario Laserna, D. Scott Lind, Chandni Kalaria, Tia Aryal, Benjamin Lok, Kyle Johnsen, Aaron Kotranza, Juan Cendan, J. Ned Pruitt
User Response to the Simulation of a Virtual Patient with Cranial Nerve Injury. Bio Algorithms Med Syst. 8 (1) (2012)
Victoria Interrante, Benjamin Lok, Aditi Majumder, Michitaka Hirose
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR). IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 18 (7) (2012)
Daniel Thalmann, Benjamin Lok
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality and Software Technology (VRST 2009). IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 17 (7) (2011)
Zach Ezzell, Paul A. Fishwick, Benjamin Lok, Andrew Pitkin, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang
An ontology-enabled user interface for simulation model construction and visualization. J. Simulation 5 (3) (2011)
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Gudrun Klinker, Benjamin Lok
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR). IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 17 (9) (2011)
Richard Skarbez, Aaron Kotranza, Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Benjamin Lok, Mary C. Whitton
An initial exploration of conversational errors as a novel method for evaluating virtual human experiences. VR (2011)
Michitaka Hirose, Benjamin Lok, Aditi Majumder, Dieter Schmalstieg
Message from the program chairs. VR (2011)
Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok
Using Virtual Humans to Bootstrap the Creation of Other Virtual Humans. IVA (2010)
Kyle Johnsen, Diane Beck, Benjamin Lok
The Impact of a Mixed Reality Display Configuration on User Behavior with a Virtual Human. IVA (2010)
Aaron Kotranza, Benjamin Lok, Kyle Johnsen, Jennifer Irons Carrick, Candelario Laserna, Brenda Rosson, Mary Anne Park, D. Scott Lind
A Mixed Reality Virtual Patient Breast Simulator with an Innovative Feedback System Improves Communication and Breast Examination Skills. Bio Algorithms Med Syst. 6 (11) (2010)
John Quarles, Paul A. Fishwick, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Ira Fischler, Benjamin Lok
A mixed reality approach for interactively blending dynamic models with corresponding physical phenomena. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 20 (4) (2010)
Aaron Kotranza, Juan Cendan, Kyle Johnsen, Benjamin Lok
Simulation of a Virtual Patient with Cranial Nerve Injury Augments Physician-Learner Concern for Patient Safety. Bio Algorithms Med Syst. 6 (11) (2010)
Kyle Johnsen, Brent Rossen, Diane Beck, Benjamin Lok, D. Scott Lind
Show some respect! The impact of technological factors on the treatment of virtual humans in conversational training systems. VR (2010)
Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Benjamin Lok
High Score! - Motivation Strategies for User Participation in Virtual Human Development. IVA (2010)
Joon Hao Chuah, Brent Rossen, Benjamin Lok
Automated Generation of Emotive Virtual Humans. IVA (2009)
Brent Rossen, D. Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok
Human-Centered Distributed Conversational Modeling: Efficient Modeling of Robust Virtual Human Conversations. IVA (2009)
Andrew Raij, Aaron Kotranza, D. Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok
Virtual Experiences for Social Perspective-Taking. VR (2009)
Aaron Kotranza, D. Scott Lind, Carla M. Pugh, Benjamin Lok
Real-time in-situ visual feedback of task performance in mixed environments for learning joint psychomotor-cognitive tasks. ISMAR (2009)
John Quarles, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Ira Fischler, Paul A. Fishwick, Benjamin Lok
Scaffolded learning with mixed reality. Comput. Graph. 33 (1) (2009)
Aaron Kotranza, Kyle Johnsen, Juan Cendan, Bayard Miller, D. Scott Lind, Benjamin Lok
Virtual multi-tools for hand and tool-based interaction with life-size virtual human agents. 3DUI (2009)
Aaron Kotranza, Benjamin Lok, Adeline Deladisma, Carla M. Pugh, D. Scott Lind
Mixed Reality Humans: Evaluating Behavior, Usability, and Acceptability. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 15 (3) (2009)
Yongho Hwang, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Nikolaus Gravenstein, Isaac Luria, Benjamin Lok
Integrating conversational virtual humans and mannequin patient simulators to present mixed reality clinical training experiences. ISMAR (2009)
Aaron Kotranza, Benjamin Lok, Carla M. Pugh, D. Scott Lind
Virtual Humans That Touch Back: Enhancing Nonverbal Communication with Virtual Humans through Bidirectional Touch. VR (2009)
Ralf Dörner, Benjamin Lok, Wolfgang Broll
Social Gaming and Learning Applications: A Driving Force for the Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality? Virtual Realities (2008)
John Quarles, Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, Ira Fischler, Paul A. Fishwick, Benjamin Lok
A Mixed Reality Approach for Merging Abstract and Concrete Knowledge. VR (2008)

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Benjamin Lok