Robert C. Hubal

Last modified 04 October 2009

Education

S.B., Computer Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1987.

M.S., Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 1992.

Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1996.

Professional experience

1987 to 1990.             Andersen Consulting, Roseland, NJ.

Senior Technical Consultant, Advanced Systems Group, Management Information Consulting Division.

1992 to 2000.             Duke University, Durham, NC.

1992-1996.    Research Assistant, Department of Psychology: Experimental.

2000.               Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences.

1996 to date. RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Senior Research Psychologist, Substance Abuse Epidemiology and Military Behavioral Health Program.

Selected recent presentations

Hubal, R., & Day, R.S. (2006). Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations. Talk presented at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium Series, Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare, March 29, 2006, Palo Alto, CA.

Guinn, C., & Hubal, R. (2006). Augmented transition networks (ATNs) for dialog control: A longitudinal study. Talk presented at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence Special Session on Natural Language Processing for Real Life Applications, November 20-22, 2006, San Francisco, CA.

Kizakevich, P.N., Culwell, A., Furberg, R., Gemeinhardt, D., Grantlin, S., Hubal, R., Stafford, A., & Dombroski, R.T. (2007). Simulation-enhanced triage training for Iraqi medical personnel. Talk presented at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, February 7, 2007, Long Beach, CA.

Hubal, R. (2007). Serious games: Taking education and training to the next level. Panel member at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting – Serious Games: Taking Education and Training to the Next Level, October 4, 2007, Baltimore, MD.

Hubal, R., Evens, N., Merino, K., Bonner, M., Hardy, K., FitzGerald, D., & Willard, T. (2008). Implementation of FACS for synthetic characters. Talk presented at the Annual CyberTherapy Conference, June 24, 2008, San Diego, CA.

Hubal, R. (2008). Criteria for use of synthetic characters. Talk presented at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, December 3, 2008, Orlando, FL. Selected for Continuing Education Unit credit.

Hubal, R., & Frank, G. (2008). Enticing mistakes: A strategy within simulation training of soft skills. Talk presented at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, December 3, 2008, Orlando, FL. Selected for Continuing Education Unit credit.

Hubal, R. (2009). Our experiences with user experiences with desktop simulations. Talk presented at the Workshop on Users’ Preferences Regarding Intelligent User Interfaces: Differences among Users and Changes over Time, February 8, 2009, Sanibel Island, FL.

Hubal, R., & Frank, G. (2009). Mental modeling used as input to tailoring training: Application using ordnance electronics maintenance technicians. Invited presentation to the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Institutional Training Research Unit, February 18, 2009, Fort Benning, GA.

Hubal, R. (2009). Situated assessment: Getting the right measures and the measurement right. Invited presentation, Caesarea Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science, May 26, 2009, Haifa, Israel.

Selected recent publications

Hubal, R., Frank, G., Guinn, C., & Dupont, R. (2004). Integrating a crisis stages model into a simulation for training law enforcement officers to manage encounters with the mentally ill. Proceedings of the Workshop on Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium Series (pp. 68-69). New York, NY: ACM Press.

Guinn, C., Hubal, R., Frank, G., Schwetzke, H., Zimmer, J., Backus, S., Deterding, R., Link, M., Armsby, P., Caspar, R., Flicker, L., Visscher, W., Meehan, A., & Zelon, H. (2004). Usability and acceptability studies of conversational virtual human technology. Proceedings of the SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (pp. 1-8). East Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics.

Guinn, C., & Hubal, R. (2004). An evaluation of virtual human technology in informational kiosks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (pp. 297-302). New York, NY: ACM Press.

Frank, G., Whiteford, B., Hubal, R., Sonker, P., Perkins, K., Arnold, P., Presley, T., Jones, R., & Meeds, H. (2004). Performance assessment for distributed learning using after action review reports generated by simulations. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (pp. 808-817). Arlington, VA: National Defense Industrial Association.

Deterding, R., Milliron, C., & Hubal, R. (2005). The virtual pediatric standardized patient application: Formative evaluation findings. In J.D. Westwood, R.S. Haluck, H.M. Hoffman, G.T. Mogel, R. Phillips, R.A. Robb, & K.G. Vosburgh (Eds.), The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now (pp. 105-107). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Hubal, R., & Day, R.S. (2006). Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium Series (pp. 69-75). New York, NY: ACM Press.

Guinn, C., & Hubal, R. (2006). Augmented transition networks (ATNs) for dialog control: A longitudinal study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence Special Session on Natural Language Processing for Real Life Applications (#523-815) (pp. 395-400). Calgary, AB: Acta Press.

Kizakevich, P.N., Culwell, A., Furberg, R., Gemeinhardt, D., Grantlin, S., Hubal, R., Stafford, A., & Dombroski, R.T. (2007). Virtual simulation-enhanced triage training for Iraqi medical personnel. In J.D. Westwood, R.S. Haluck, H.M. Hoffman, G.T. Mogel, R. Phillips, R.A. Robb, & K.G. Vosburgh (Eds.), In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico: Designing the Next in Medicine (pp. 223-228). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

Frank, G.A., & Hubal, R.C. (2007). Modeling affective reactions for training adaptive interviewing. Proceedings of the Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation Conference. Orlando, FL: Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization.

Hubal, R., & Frank, G. (2007). Lessons learned in embodying tutoring for interactive skills. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Virtual Instructors. Washington, DC: IEEE Virtual Instructor Pilot Research Group.

Hubal, R., Kizakevich, P., & Furberg, R. (2007). Synthetic characters in health-related applications. In S. Vaidya, L.C. Jain, & H. Yoshida (Eds.), Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare 2 (pp. 5-26). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Eriksson, E.J., Rodman, R.D., & Hubal, R.C. (2007). Emotions in speech: Juristic implications. In C. Müller (Ed.), Speaker Classification I: Fundamentals, Features, and Methods (pp. 152-173). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Hubal, R., Staszewski, J., & Marrin, S. (2007). Overcoming decision making bias: Training implications for intelligence and leadership. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (pp. 798-808). Arlington, VA: National Defense Industrial Association.

Frank, G., Hubal, R., & O’Bea, M. (2007). Using competency definitions to adapt training for mission success. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (pp. 1262-1270). Arlington, VA: National Defense Industrial Association.

Frank, G.A., & Hubal, R.C. (2008). Bias inoculation advanced simulation (BIAS) training. Proceedings of the Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation conference. Orlando, FL: Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization.

Hubal, R.C., Fishbein, D.H., Sheppard, M.S, Paschall, M.J., Eldreth, D.L., & Hyde, C.T. (2008). How do varied populations interact with embodied conversational agents? Findings from inner-city adolescents and prisoners. Computers in Human Behavior, 24(3), 1104-1138.

Hubal, R. (2008). Embodied tutors for interaction skills simulation training. International Journal of Virtual Reality, 7(1), 1-8.

Hubal, R.C., Evens, N.R., FitzGerald, D.P., Hardy, K.K., Willard, V.W., & Bonner, M.J. (2008). Implementation of FACS for synthetic characters for use in studying facial expression recognition by survivors of childhood cancer. Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine, 6, 35-40.

Frank, G., Evens, N., Hubal, R., & Whiteford, B. (2008). Automated, interactive AARs: A positive spin. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (pp. 67-76). Arlington, VA: National Defense Industrial Association.

Hubal, R. (2008). Criteria for use of synthetic characters. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (pp. 1274-1283). Arlington, VA: National Defense Industrial Association.

Hubal, R., & Frank, G. (2008). Enticing mistakes: A strategy within simulation training of soft skills. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (pp. 57-66). Arlington, VA: National Defense Industrial Association.

Krizowsky, P., Waters, H., Wright, M., Hubal, R., & Frank, G. (2008). Dynamically configured scenarios for training adaptive network system operators. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (pp. 1392-1399). Arlington, VA: National Defense Industrial Association.

Hubal, R. (2009). Between- and within-subjects experiences with desktop simulations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Users’ Preferences Regarding Intelligent User Interfaces: Differences among Users and Changes over Time. New York, NY: ACM Press.

Professional

Memberships:

American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Association for Psychological Science.

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

International Association for Intelligence Education.

National Defense Industrial Association.

Review activities:

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2009.

Computers in Human Behavior.

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2007, 2008.

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Program Committee, 2009.

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge, 2009.

National Institute on Mental Health, 2008, 2009.

National Science Foundation, 2002, 2003, 2008.