About Me
My work is focused on group interaction with a virtual coaching team for older adults regarding their health and well-being. During this work I try to investigate how to make the group dynamic and conversational content such that interacting with the virtual coaching team is engaging, fun, and persuasive, and that the virtual coaching team comes off as a capable coaching team that people can trust.
Expertise
Engineering & Materials Science
# Demonstrations
# Health
# Intelligent Virtual Agents
# Mentoring
# Multi Agent Systems
Social Sciences
# Expertise
# Healthcare
# Video
Research
My current research interest is the multiparty interaction between several Embodied Conversational Coaches and older adults in a lifestyle coaching setting. I wonder what the possible advantages and disadvantages of a multiple coaches approach as compared to a single coach approach are. This involves questions about many subjects such as, for example, realism of the interactions in the group, group pressure, group dynamics, trust, roles of the coaches, and presentation of differing perspectives and opinions.
Publications
Recent
Huizing, G.
, Klaassen, R.
, & Heylen, D. (2021).
Designing Effective Dialogue Content for a Virtual Coaching Team Using the Interaction Process Analysis and Interpersonal Circumplex Models. In R. Ali, B. Lugrin, & F. Charles (Eds.),
Persuasive Technology: 16th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2021, Virtual Event, April 12–14, 2021, Proceedings (pp. 19-32). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12684). Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79460-6_2
Beinema, T.
, Davison, D.
, Reidsma, D.
, Banos, O.
, Bruijnes, M., Donval, B., Fides Valero, Á.
, Heylen, D., Hofs, D.
, Huizing, G., Kantharaju, R. B.
, Klaassen, R.
, Kolkmeier, J.
, Konsolakis, K., Pease, A., Pelachaud, C., Simonetti, D., Snaith, M., Traver, V.
, ... op den Akker, H. (2021).
Agents United: An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems. In
IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 17-24). Association for Computing Machinery.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478352
Snaith, M., Conway, N.
, Beinema, T., De Franco, D., Pease, A., Kantharaju, R., Janier, M.
, Huizing, G., Pelachaud, C.
, & op den Akker, H. (2021).
A multimodal corpus of simulated consultations between a patient and multiple healthcare professionals.
Language resources and evaluation,
55(4), 1077-1092.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09526-0
Huizing, G. H.
, Klaassen, R.
, & Heylen, D. K. J. (2020).
Multi-Perspective Persuasion by a Council of Virtual Coaches. Paper presented at 8th International Workshop on Behavior Change Support Systems, BCSS 2020, Aalborg, Denmark.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2662/BCSS2020_paper2.pdf
Kantharaju, R. B., Pease, A.
, Reidsma, D., Pelachaud, C., Snaith, M.
, Bruijnes, M.
, Klaassen, R.
, Beinema, T.
, Huizing, G., Simonetti, D.
, Heylen, D.
, & op den Akker, H. (2019).
Integrating argumentation with social conversation between multiple virtual coaches. In
IVA 2019 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 203-205). Association for Computing Machinery.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3308532.3329450
Huizing, G. H.
, Klaassen, R.
, & Heylen, D. K. J. (2019).
Designing and Developing Lifelike, Engaging Lifestyle Coaching Agents and Scenarios for Multiparty Coaching Interaction. Paper presented at 2018 AAMAS Workshop on Intelligent Conversation Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications, ICAHGCA 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2338/paper3.pdf
Education
I have worked on helping to organise the course Conversational Agents, and will be guiding students that help us work on the Council of Coaches project.
Affiliated Study Programmes
Master
Projects
I work within the Council of Coaches project. We aim to develop a platform with several embodied conversational lifestyle and health behaviour coaches to support older adults to live in greater health and maintain or improve their well-being.
Current Projects
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands