• Enhancing investigative interview training using a child avatar system: a comparative study of interactive environments 

      Zohaib Hassan, Syed; Shafiee Sabet, Saeed; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid; Ko, Hayley Manalang; Salehi, Pegah; Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Halvorsen, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The impact of investigative interviews by police and Child Protective Services (CPS) on abused children can be profound, making effective training vital. Quality in these interviews often falls short and current training ...
    • Enhancing Naturalness in LLM-Generated Utterances through Disfluency Insertion 

      Zohaib Hassan, Syed; Lison, Pierre; Halvorsen, Pål (arXiv.org;, Journal article, 2024)
      Disfluencies are a natural feature of spontaneous human speech but are typically absent from the outputs of Large Language Models (LLMs). This absence can diminish the perceived naturalness of synthesized speech, which is ...
    • Enhancing questioning skills through child avatar chatbot training with feedback 

      Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid; Zohaib Hassan, Syed; Shafiee Sabet, Saeed; Salehi, Pegah; Powell, Martine B.; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Halvorsen, Pål; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Training child investigative interviewing skills is a specialized task. Those being trained need opportunities to practice their skills in realistic settings and receive immediate feedback. A key step in ensuring the ...