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S.B., Computer Science &
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
M.S., Computer Science,
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology,
1987 to 1990. Andersen
Consulting,
Senior Technical Consultant, Advanced Systems
Group, Management Information Consulting Division.
1992 to 2000.
1992-1996. Research
Assistant, Department of Psychology: Experimental.
2000. Adjunct
Professor, Department of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences.
1996 to date. RTI
International,
Senior Research Psychologist, Substance Abuse
Epidemiology and Military Behavioral Health Program.
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,
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,
Kizakevich, P.N., Culwell,
A., Furberg, R., Gemeinhardt, D., Grantlin, S., Hubal,
R.,
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,
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,
Hubal, R. (2008). Criteria for use of synthetic characters. Talk presented at the
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, December 3,
2008,
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,
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.
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).
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
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
Kizakevich, P.N., Culwell,
A., Furberg, R., Gemeinhardt, D., Grantlin, S., Hubal,
R.,
Frank, G.A., & Hubal, R.C. (2007).
Modeling affective reactions for training
adaptive interviewing. Proceedings of the Behavior Representation in Modeling
and Simulation Conference.
Hubal, R., & Frank, G. (2007). Lessons learned
in embodying tutoring for interactive skills. Proceedings of the International
Workshop on Virtual Instructors.
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).
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).
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).
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).
Frank, G.A., & Hubal, R.C. (2008).
Bias inoculation advanced simulation
(BIAS) training. Proceedings of the Behavior Representation in Modeling and
Simulation conference.
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).
Hubal, R. (2008). Criteria for use of synthetic characters. Proceedings of the
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (pp.
1274-1283).
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).
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).
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.
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.