RESEARCH

Nathalia Gomez, Haig Shamlian, Omar A. Khan, and Tiffany D. Do

What Makes an AI Agent Feel Empathic and Human? The Effects of Verbal Attunement and Behavioral Mimicry in VR and the Limits of Multimodal Synchrony.

To Appear in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST).

Full Paper, 11 pages | Acceptance rate: 27%

Omar A. Khan, Lee Lisle, and Tiffany D. Do

Non-Human Body Parts in Social VR: A Survey of Furry and Kemonomimi Communities.

To Appear in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI).

Poster, 3 pages

Omar A. Khan, Bao Han Trinh, Lee Lisle, and Tiffany D. Do

Having Dog Ears "for Real": Effects of Active and Passive Haptics on Embodying Non-Human Body Parts in VR.

To Appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).

Full Paper, 11 pages | Acceptance rate: 16% | PDF

Arijit Chakma, Peng He, Zeyuan Wang, Honglu Liu, Tingting Li, Tiffany D. Do, and Feng Liu

DrawSim-PD: Simulating Student Science Drawings to Support NGSS-Aligned Teacher Diagnostic Reasoning.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Springer.

Full Paper, 16 pages | Acceptance rate: 16.9% | DOI | PDF

Vishnu Menon, Andy Cherney, Elizabeth Cloude, Li Zhang, and Tiffany D. Do

Evaluating the Impact of LLM-guided Reflection on Learning Outcomes with Interactive AI-generated Educational Podcasts.

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con).

Full Paper, 8 pages | ACL Anthology | PDF

Nathalia Gomez, S. Sue Batham, Matias Volonte, and Tiffany D. Do

Virtual Interviewers, Real Results: Exploring AI-Driven Mock Technical Interviews on Student Readiness and Confidence.

Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '25).

Late-Breaking Work, 7 pages | DOI | PDF

Tiffany D. Do, Usama Bin Shafqat, Elsie Ling, and Nikhil Sarda

PAIGE: Examining Learning Outcomes and Experiences with Personalized AI-Generated Educational Podcasts.

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Full Paper (Best Paper Award) 🏆, 12 pages | Acceptance rate: 25.1% | DOI | PDF

Tiffany D. Do, Martez E. Mott, John Tang, Sasa Junuzovic, Ann Paradiso, and Edward Cutrell

Exploring AI-Driven Affective Avatars for Autistic Adults and Adults with Social Anxiety in Virtual Meetings.

Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Late-Breaking Work, 9 pages | Acceptance rate: 32.8% | DOI

Sagar A Vankit, Vivian Genaro Motti, Tiffany D. Do, Samaneh Zamanifard, Deyrel Diaz, Andrew T Duchowski, Bart P Knijnenburg, Matias Volonte

Path Modeling of Visual Attention, User Perceptions, and Behavior Change Intentions in Conversations With Embodied Agents in VR.

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds.

Full Paper, 10 pages | DOI

Tiffany D. Do, Juanita Benjamin, Camille Isabella Protko, and Ryan P. McMahan

Cultural Reflections in Virtual Reality: The Effects of User Ethnicity in Avatar Matching Experiences on Sense of Embodiment.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).

Full Paper, 11 pages | Acceptance rate: 16.9% | DOI | PDF

Tiffany D. Do, Camille Isabella Protko, and Ryan P. McMahan

Stepping into the Right Shoes: The Effects of User-Matched Avatar Ethnicity and Gender on Sense of Embodiment in Virtual Reality.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).

Full Paper (Best Paper Honorable Mention) 🏆, 10 pages | Acceptance rate: 12.6% | DOI