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IVA 2010 - Paper Review Committee

 

Invited to be on Panel for Games for Health at the M3T (Medical Training, Technology, Therapy) Conference, May 2010, Orlando Fla.

 

Invited to be on a Panel for AAAI Fall Symposium 09 series on Virtual Healthcare Interaction.

 

Invited to be on Panel for Medical Simulation Technology and Virtual Patients at the M3T (Medical Training, Technology, Therapy) Conference, May 2009, Orlando Fla.

 

Invited to be on a Panel Discussion about - Virtual Humans/Patients in Therapy, VIRC09 (Virtual Reality International Conference) - Laval France

 

IVA 2009 – paper committee

 

Presented “Justina – Virtual Patient” at the ICT Virtual Human workshop April 2009

 

Demo Presentation of Lt. Rocko at I/ITSEC 2009 special session on Medical Simulation.

 

Invited talk for local LA SIGGRAPH group on Virtual Reality and Real Reality. - 2009, UCLA

 

Virtual Human Toolkit Workshop Aug 2008 – Organizer and co-chair

 

Invited Talk – Cognitive Animation workshop (2008) Yosemite National Park.

 

Virtual Human video nominated for Best Video and Best Educational Video, 2008

 

I/ITSEC paper review committee 2007 – Emerging Concepts

 

SIGGRAPH LA Chapter Invited Talk
Simulated Experiences through Simulated Reality
2/13/2007 at UCLA

 

Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference, Marina Del Rey, 2006 – Local program chair

 

Believable Characters Workshop, ICT, Marina Del Rey, 2006- Organizer and Chair

 

I/ITSEC paper review committee, 2006 – Emerging Concepts

 

I/ITSEC paper review committee, 2005 – Research and Development

 

Presentation at GDC on ' Virtual Humans: Using Advanced AI to Create Characters that Think, Talk and Feel' at GDC in March 2005.

 

Teacher at CampCAEN Summer Computer camp at University of Michigan.
1995, Robot building class where students built their own autonomous line following robots.
1996, AI programming class, where the students built some robocup soccer playing agents.

 

1996,1997 - Week long robot building workshops for high school students for the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) program.

 

Entered in Robot contest at AAAI - multiple cooperative robotics – 1994-1995.

 
 
 
 

Deus Ex Publications

2010

Rizzo, A.A. Kenny, P., & Parsons, T.D. (in press). The Birth of Intelligent Virtual Humans in Clinical Virtual Reality. Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting.(PDF)

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

de Melo C, Kenny P, Gratch J. "The Influence of Autonomic Signals on Perception of Emotions in Embodied Agents". Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Artificial Intellligence, 2010

 

de Melo C, Kenny P, Gratch J. "Real-Time Expression of Affect through Respiration". Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds and 23rd Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, Saint-Malo, May 31-June 2, 2010

 

Kenny, P., & Parsons, T.D. (in press) Conversational Virtual Human Patients. In C. Perez-Marin, & I. Pascual-Nieto (Eds.), Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices (pp. ###- ###). Hershey: IGI Global. (PDF)

 
2009

Kenny, P., Parsons, T.D., & Rizzo, A.A. (2009). Human Computer Interaction in Virtual Standardized Patient Systems. Human Computer Interaction International, San Diego, July 2009.

 

Parsons, T.D., Kenny, P., Cosand, L., Iyer, A., Courtney, C., & Rizzo, A.A. (2009). A Virtual Human Agent for Assessing Bias in Novice Therapists. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 142, 253-258.

 

Kenny, P., Parsons, T.D., Rothbaum, B.O., Difede, J., Reger, G., & Rizzo, A.A. (2009). Optimizing Clinical Training for the Treatment of PTSD using Virtual Patients. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 144, 264-8.

 

Kenny, P., Parsons, T.D., & Rizzo, A.A. (2009). A Comparative Analysis between Experts and Novices Interacting with a Virtual Patient with PTSD. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 144, 122-124. 

 
2008

Kenny, P., Parsons, T.D., Reger, G., Pataki, C., Pato, A.A., St-George, C., Sugar, J M., Rizzo, A.A. (2008). Virtual Patients for Future Leaders. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando Florida, December 1-4, 2008.

 

Kenny, P., Parsons, T.D., Pataki, C.S., Pato, M., St-George, C., Sugar, J., & Rizzo, A.A. (2008). Virtual Justina: A PTSD Virtual Patient for Clinical Classroom Training. Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine, 6, 113-118.

 

Parsons, T.D., Kenny, P., Ntuen, C., Pataki, C.S., Pato, M., Rizzo, A.A., St-George, C., & Sugar, J. (2008). Objective Structured Clinical Interview Training using a Virtual Human Patient. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 132, 357-362.

 

Patrick Kenny, Thomas Parsons, Jonathan Gratch, Albert Rizzo. Evaluation of Justina: A Virtual Patient with PTSD. 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Tokyo, Japan, September 2008. Best Paper Nomination.

 

Kenny, P., Parsons, T.D., Gratch, J., Rizzo, A.A. (2008). Virtual Humans for Assisted Health Care. Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on "PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments – PETRA, Athens Greece, July 15-19, 2008.

 

Pataki, C., Sugar, J., Kenny, P., Parsons, T.D., Rizzo, A.A., Pato, M., & St-George, C. (2008). A Virtual Adolescent Patient with PTSD for Training Psychiatrists. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry. Chicago, October 28-November 2, 2008.

 

Parsons, T.D., Kenny, P., & Rizzo, A.A. (2008). Virtual Human Patients for Training of Clinical Interview and Communication Skills. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technology. Porto, Portugal, September 8-11, 2008.

 
2007

Patrick Kenny, Thomas D. Parsons, Jonathan Gratch, Anton Leuski and Albert A. Rizzo, “Virtual Patients for Clinical Therapist Skills Training,” 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Paris, France 2007

 

Patrick G. Kenny, A. Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, David R. Traum, Stacy Marsella, William R. Swartout: The More the Merrier: Multi-Party Negotiation with Virtual Humans. AAAI 2007: 1970-1971 Demo and Poster

 

Kenny, P., Rizzo, A.A., Parsons, T.D., Gratch, J., & Swartout, W. (2007). A Virtual Human Agent for Training Novice Therapist Clinical Interviewing Skills. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10, 6. (PDF)

 

Kenny, P., Hartholt, A., Gratch, J., Swartout W., Traum, D., Marsella, S., Piepol, D., (2007). Building Interactive Virtual Humans for Training Environments. Interservice / Industry, Training, Simulation & Education Conference. 

I/ITSEC- Best paper Award for Research and Development sub-committee, nominated for best paper overall conference.

 

Parsons, T.D., Kenny, P., Pataki, C.S., Pato, M., St-George, C., Sugar, J., & Rizzo, A.A. (in press). Objective Structured Clinical Interview Training using a Virtual Human Patient. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.

 
 
2005

Traum, D., Swartout, W., Gratch, J., Marsella, S., Kenny, P., Hovy, E., Narayanan, S., Fast, E., Martinovski, B., Baghat, R., Robinson, S., Marshall, A., Wang, D., Gandhe, S., Leuski, A. Dealing With Doctors: A Virtual Human for Non-team Interaction. 6th SIGdial workshop on discourse and dialogue (Lisbon, Portugal; September 2005).

 

Variability in CGF for MOUT Scenarios: Training Implications, Amy E. Henninger, Robert Wray, Patrick Kenny, Brian Stensrud BRIMS 2005, Universal City, CA 16-19 May 2005

 
 
2000

Jones, R. and Kenny, P., (2000). Lessons learned from integrating STOW technology into an operational naval environment. Proceedings of the 2000 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, FL.

 
 
1999

Coulter, K., Jones, R., Kenny, P., Koss, F., Laird, J. and Nielsen, P., (1999). Automated Intelligent Pilots for Combat Flight Simulation. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, (pp. 1047-1054), Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

 

Randolph M. Jones, John E. Laird, Paul E. Nielsen, Karen J. Coulter, Patrick G. Kenny, Frank V. Koss: Automated Intelligent Pilots for Combat Flight Simulation. AI Magazine 20(1): 27-41 (1999)

 

Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, and Karl C. Kluge. “Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles.” In Autonomous Agents (G. Bekey, editor), pages 97-110, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. (Reprint of article published in the journal Autonomous Robots in 1998.)

 
1998

Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, Karl C. Kluge: Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles. Journal of Autonomous Robots, 5 (1-14): 97-110 (1998)

 

Durfee, E., Kenny, P., Kluge. K., Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Autonomous Agents, Springer (March 31, 1998) Hardcover

 

Coulter, K., Jones, R., Kenny, P., Koss, F., Laird, J. and Nielsen, P., (1998). Integrating Intelligent Computer Generated Forces in Distributed Simulations: TacAir-Soar in STOW-97. Proceedings of the 1998 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, FL.

 

P. G. Kenny, K. J. Coulter, J. E. Laird, and S. Bixler. Integrating
real-world mission specification and reporting activities
with computer generated forces at STOW-97. In Proceedingsof the SeventhConference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation,Orlando, FL, 1998.

 

Tomaso Bersano-Begey, Patrick G. Kenny, and Edmund H. Durfee. “Agent Teamwork, Adaptive Learning, and Adversarial Planning in Robocup Using a PRS Architecture.” In RoboCup-97: The First Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

 
1997

Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, Karl C. Kluge: Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles. Agents 1997: 348-354

 

Durfee, E., Kenny, P. and Kluge, K., (1997). Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles Agents. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Bologna, Italy.

 

Bersano-Begey, T.F., P.G. Kenny, and E.H.Durfee, Multi-Agent Teamwork, Adaptive Learning and Adversarial Planning in Robocup Using a PRS Architecture, IJCAI97.

 
 
1996

Kenny, P., Durfee, E. and Kluge, K., (1996). Mission Planning and Coordinated Execution for Unmanned Vehicles. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation.

 
 
1994

Huber, M. and Kenny, P., (1994). The problem with multiple robots. Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service, and Space, (pp. 620-629), Houston, TX: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

 

Huber, M., Kenny, P., Durfee, E. and Lee, J., (1994). (UM-PRS): An Implementation of the Procedural Reasoning System for Multirobot Applications. Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service, and Space, (pp. 842-849), Houston, TX: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

 

Jaeho Lee, Marcus J. Huber, Edmund H. Durfee, and Patrick G. Kenny. “UM-PRS: An Implementation of the Procedural Reasoning System for Multirobot Applications.” In Proceedings of the AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service, and Space, pages 842-849, March 1994.

 

Patrick G. Kenny, Clint R. Bidlack, Karl C. Kluge, Jaeho Lee, Marcus J. Huber, Edmund H. Durfee, and Terry Weymouth.  “Implementation of a Reactive Autonomous Navigation System on an Outdoor Mobile Robot.”  In Proceedings of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems Annual National Symposium (AUVS-94),  pages 233-239, May 1994.