Dhaval Parmar

According to our database, Dhaval Parmar authored at least 23 papers between 2013 and 2023.

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2023

How Immersion and Self-Avatars in VR Affect Learning Programming and Computational Thinking in Middle School Education.

Dhaval Parmar, Lorraine Lin, Nikeetha D'Souza, Sophie Jörg, Alison E. Leonard, Shaundra B. Daily, Sabarish V. Babu

IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., August, 2023

2022

Designing empathic virtual agents: manipulating animation, voice, rendering, and empathy to create persuasive agents.

Dhaval Parmar, Stefan Olafsson, Dina Utami, Prasanth Murali, Timothy W. Bickmore

Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., 2022

Techno-Spiritual Engagement: Mechanisms for Improving Uptake of mHealth Apps Designed for Church Members 130-138.

Hye Sun Yun, Shou Zhou, Everlyne Kimani, Stefan Olafsson, Teresa K. O'Leary, Dhaval Parmar, Jessica A. Hoffman, Stephen S. Intille, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the IUI 2022 Workshops: APEx-UI, 2022

Community Dynamics in Technospiritual Interventions: Lessons Learned from a Church-based mHealth Pilot.

Teresa K. O'Leary, Dhaval Parmar, Stefan Olafsson, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Timothy W. Bickmore, Andrea G. Parker

Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022, 2022

2021

Virtual agents as supporting media for scientific presentations.

Timothy W. Bickmore, Everlyne Kimani, Ameneh Shamekhi, Prasanth Murali, Dhaval Parmar, Ha Trinh

J. Multimodal User Interfaces, 2021

Diversity Informatics: Reducing Racial and Gender Bias with Virtual Agents.

Timothy W. Bickmore, Dhaval Parmar, Everlyne Kimani, Stefan Olafsson

Proceedings of the IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2021

'More like a person than reading text in a machine': Characterizing User Choice of Embodied Agents vs. Conventional GUIs on Smartphones.

Stefan Olafsson, Dhaval Parmar, Everlyne Kimani, Teresa K. O'Leary, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Sharing the Load Online: Virtual Presentations with Virtual Co-Presenter Agents.

Everlyne Kimani, Dhaval Parmar, Prasanth Murali, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

2020

Making It Personal: Addressing Individual Audience Members in Oral Presentations Using Augmented Reality.

Dhaval Parmar, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., 2020

Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents.

Teresa K. O'Leary, Elizabeth Stowell, Everlyne Kimani, Dhaval Parmar, Stefan Olafsson, Jessica A. Hoffman, Andrea G. Parker, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the IVA '20: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020

Multimodal Assessment of Oral Presentations using HMMs.

Everlyne Kimani, Prasanth Murali, Ameneh Shamekhi, Dhaval Parmar, Sumanth Munikoti, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the ICMI '20: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2020

Navigating the Combinatorics of Virtual Agent Design Space to Maximize Persuasion.

Dhaval Parmar, Stefán Ólafsson, Dina Utami, Prasanth Murali, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2020

Argumentation is More Important than Appearance for Designing Culturally Tailored Virtual Agents.

Prasanth Murali, Ameneh Shamekhi, Dhaval Parmar, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2020

2019

Stagecraft for Scientists: Exploring Novel Interaction Formats for Virtual Co-Presenter Agents.

Everlyne Kimani, Ameneh Shamekhi, Prasanth Murali, Dhaval Parmar, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2019

2018

Looking the Part: The Effect of Attire and Setting on Perceptions of a Virtual Health Counselor.

Dhaval Parmar, Stefan Olafsson, Dina Utami, Timothy W. Bickmore

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2018

2017

How character customization affects learning in computational thinking.

Lorraine Lin, Dhaval Parmar, Sabarish V. Babu, Alison E. Leonard, Shaundra Bryant Daily, Sophie Jörg

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, 2017

2016

A comparative evaluation of viewing metaphors on psychophysical skills education in an interactive virtual environment.

Dhaval Parmar, Jeffrey W. Bertrand, Sabarish V. Babu, Kapil Chalil Madathil, Melissa Zelaya, Tianwei Wang, John R. Wagner, Anand K. Gramopadhye, Kristin K. Frady

Virtual Real., 2016

Programming moves: Design and evaluation of applying embodied interaction in virtual environments to enhance computational thinking in middle school students.

Dhaval Parmar, Joseph Isaac, Sabarish V. Babu, Nikeetha D'Souza, Alison E. Leonard, Sophie Jörg, Kara Gundersen, Shaundra Bryant Daily

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Virtual Reality, 2016

Combating Perceptions of Computer Scientists: A Short-term Intervention (Abstract Only).

Shaundra Bryant Daily, Alison E. Leonard, Sophie Jörg, Sabarish V. Babu, Nikeetha D'Souza, Dhaval Parmar, Kara Gundersen, Joseph Isaac, Serita Acker

Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, 2016

2015

Embodying Computational Thinking: Initial Design of an Emerging Technological Learning Tool.

Shaundra B. Daily, Alison E. Leonard, Sophie Jörg, Sabarish V. Babu, Kara Gundersen, Dhaval Parmar

Technol. Knowl. Learn., 2015

2014

Character animation and embodiment in teaching computational thinking.

Sophie Jörg, Alison E. Leonard, Sabarish V. Babu, Kara Gundersen, Dhaval Parmar, Kevin Boggs, Shaundra Bryant Daily

Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, 2014

Interactive breadboard activity simulation (IBAS) for psychomotor skills education in electrical circuitry.

Dhaval Parmar, Jeffrey W. Bertrand, Blair Shannon, Sabarish V. Babu, Kapil Chalil Madathil, Melissa Zelaya, Tianwei Wang, John R. Wagner, Kristin K. Frady, Anand K. Gramopadhye

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces, 2014

2013

Serious games for training, rehabilitation and workforce development.

Jeffrey W. Bertrand, Lauren Cairco Dukes, Patrick S. Dukes, Elham Ebrahimi, Austen L. Hayes, Naja A. Mack, Jerome McClendon, Dhaval Parmar, Toni Bloodworth Pence, Blair Shannon, Aliceann Wachter, Yanxiang Wu, Sabarish V. Babu, Larry F. Hodges

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Virtual Reality, 2013