• 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 (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-13)
      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 availability of such opportunities is to develop a dynamic, conversational avatar, using artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can provide implicit and explicit feedback to ...
    • 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 (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 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 decision-making and prosecution. Current research emphasizes the importance of the interviewer’s ability to follow empirically based guidelines. In doing so, it is essential to implement ...