Sasser, J. A., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (in press). Investigation of relationships between embodiment perceptions and perceived social presence in human-robot interactions. International Journal of Social Robotics.

Pavlov, K., Montalvo, F., Sasser, J. A., Jones, L., DiBello, A., McConnell, D. S., & Smither, J. A. (2023). Human Factors and User Experience in At-Home Dialysis Treatment Technology and Patient Procedures. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 12(1), 223-228.

Jones, R., Montalvo, F., Sasser, J., Smither, J. A., & McConnell, D. S. (2023). Applying user Experience Principles to Food Distribution in Nursing Homes. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, 12(1), 151-155.

Sasser, J. A., McConnell, D. S., & Smither, J. A. (2022, November). Investigation of Aspects of Embodiment on User Perceptions in Human-Robot Interactions. In 2022 IEEE 3rd International Confer-ence on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS) (pp. 1-2). IEEE.

Sasser, J.A., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2022). Exploring the Effect of Virtual Agent Type on Perceived Hedonic and Utilitarian Beliefs of an End User. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 66th Annual Meeting, 66(1).

Montalvo, F., Alves, G.M., Payne, C.A., Sasser, J.A., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2022). Trait Loneliness and Social Presence in Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 66th Annual Meeting, 66(1).

Jones, L., Devkota, B., Montalvo, F., Sasser, J.A., McConnell, D.S., & Smither J.A. (2022). A Heuristic Evaluation of the CDC’s Information Dissemination Practices. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 66th Annual Meeting, 66(1).

Pavlov, K., Montalvo, F., Sasser, J., Jones, L., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2022). Applying User Experience Principles to Patient Experiences. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 66th Annual Meeting, 66(1).

Sasser, J., Montalvo, F., Bendell, R., Hancock, P.A., & McConnell, D.S. (2020, December) Exploring the Effect of Virtual Robot Acceleration on Perceived Competitiveness/ Cooperativeness, Animacy, and Intelligence. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 64th Annual Meeting.

Williams, J., Bendell, R., Parker, J., Talone, A., Sasser, J., Vasquez, G., & Jentsch, F. (2019, November). Exploring the Effect of Stimuli Characteristics on Signal Detection Performance: Sex Influenced Targeting Bias. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 63rd Annual Meeting.

Sasser, J.A., Montalvo, F., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2022). Examining Acceptance Factors Be-tween Online Agents: Traditional Chatbot versus Online Social Robot. Poster presented at the 2022 Student Scholar Symposium.

Montalvo, F., Alves, G.M., Sasser, J.A., Takahashi, B., Hinkle, S., Stephens, P.S., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2022, August). Loneliness and Individual Differences in Factors of Social Pres-ence. To be presented at the 2022 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN.

Stephens, P.J., Claridge-Rogers, T., Montalvo, F., Sasser, J.A., Stahl, A., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2022, August). Personality and Social Media Health Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Era of COVID-19. To be presented at the 2022 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN.

Montalvo, F., Sasser, J.A., Hinkle, S., Chebolu, R.D., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2021, August) Perception of message valence in emoji vs. text-based communication among lonely individuals. Presented at the 2021 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.

Montalvo, F., Sasser, J.A., Alves, G.M., Devkota, B., Fathi, C., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2021, August) Companionship needs: Preferred qualities in robotic social interaction among lonely individuals.. Presented at the 2021 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Die-go, CA.

Sasser, J., Montalvo, F., Parkhurst, E.L., Vasquez, G., McConnell, D.S., & Smither, J.A. (2020, October) Social presence in embodied virtual agents among lonely older adults. Poster presented at 12th World Conference of Gerontechnology, Trondheim, Norway.

Montalvo, F., Sasser, J., Parkhurst, E.L., Hinkle, S., Alves, G.M., Vasquez, G., McConnell, D.S., Smither, J.A. (2020, October) Giving voice to human-robot intersubjectivity in loneliness contexts. Poster to be presented at 12th World Conference of Gerontechnology, Trondheim, Norway.

Montalvo, F., Krause, K., Sasser, J., Parkhurst, E.L., McConnell, D.S., Smither, J.A. (2020, March). Reading the Mind through the Lonely Eye: Social cognition and loneliness [Poster Session]. UCF Graduate Research Forum 2020, Orlando, FL. (Conference Cancelled)

Hinkle, S., Montalvo, F., Sasser, J.A., McConnell, D.S., Smither, J.A. (2020, February). Giving robots a voice in the evaluation of human-robot interaction. Poster presented at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference. Fort Meyers, FL.

Hinkle, S., Montalvo, F., Sasser, J.A., McConnell, D.S., Smither, J.A. (2020, January). Focusing on third order social presence in human-robot interaction. Poster presented at the Human Factors and Applied Psychology (HFAP) Conference. Orlando, FL.

Montalvo, F., Alves, G.M., Sasser, J.A., Payne, C.A., McConnell, D.S., Smither, J.A. (2019, August) The presence of social engagement affects perceived social presence. Poster presented at the 2019 American Psychological Association Annual Convention.

Montalvo, F., Alves, G.M., Payne, C.A., Sasser, J., Burn, A, McConnell, D.S., Smither, J.A. (2019, May) Loneliness and Social Presence: Human-Robot Interaction Mimics Human-Human Interaction. Poster presented at the 31st Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washing-ton DC.

Sasser, J.A., McConnell, D.S., & Hancock, P.A. (2019, April) Perceived Intentionality via Virtual Agent’s Kinematics. Poster to be presented at the 2019 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence student conference, Orlando FL.

Sasser, J.A., McConnell, D.S., & Hancock, P.A. (2019, February) Perceived Behaviors via Kinematics in Robotics. Poster to be presented at the 2019 Florida Undergraduate Research Conference, Jacksonville FL.

Sasser, J.A., McConnell, D.S., & Hancock, P.A. (2019, January) Perceived Behaviors via Kinematics in Robotics. Poster to be presented at the 2019 Human Factors and Applied Psychology student conference, Orlando FL.