• 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 ...
    • A field assessment of child abuse investigators' engagement with a child-avatar to develop interviewing skills 

      Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Powell, Martine B.; Riegler, Michael; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: Child investigative interviewing is a complex skill requiring specialised training. A critical training element is practice. Simulations with digital avatars are cost-effective options for delivering training. ...
    • "Fortell meg mer om det" En studie om avdekking av vold og seksuelle overgrep blant førskolebarn i avhør på barnehuset 

      Bråthen, Lisa Soland (Master thesis, 2022)
      Avdekking av overgrep mot barn er et komplekst fenomen som får omfattende oppmerksomhet med formål om å fremme tidligere avsløringer og for å øke kompetanse blant beskyttelses- og hjelpetjenester. I denne studien undersøkes ...
    • Synthesizing a Talking Child Avatar to Train Interviewers Working with Maltreated Children 

      Salehi, Pegah; Hassan, Syed Zohaib; Lammerse, Myrthe; Shafiee Sabet, Saeed; Riiser, Ingvild; Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Hicks, Steven; Thambawita, Vajira; Powell, Martine; Lamb, Michael E.; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid; Halvorsen, Pål; Riegler, Michael (Big Data and Cognitive Computing;Volume 6 / Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06-01)
      When responding to allegations of child sexual, physical, and psychological abuse, Child Protection Service (CPS) workers and police personnel need to elicit detailed and accurate accounts of the abuse to assist in ...
    • The Use and Productivity of Visual Aids as Retrieval Support in Police Interviews of Preschool-Aged Victims of Abuse 

      Johnson, Miriam S.; Hyvik, Martine Stordrange; Bråthen, Ida Caroline; Magnussen, Svein; Grung, Rolf Magnus; Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Pripp, Are Hugo; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Professional use of external retrieval cues, such as various types of visual aids, has been utilized in investigative interviews of children for decades based on the assumption that aids can facilitate children’s recollection ...