Publications

2024

1. 

   Spiders Based on Anxiety: How Reinforcement Learning Can Deliver Desired User Experience in Virtual Reality Personalized Arachnophobia Treatment

   Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Matthew Guzdial, and Pierre Boulanger

   arXiv e-prints, 2024

   Bib

   @article{mahmoudi2024spiders,
     title = {Spiders Based on Anxiety: How Reinforcement Learning Can Deliver Desired User Experience in Virtual Reality Personalized Arachnophobia Treatment},
     author = {Mahmoudi-Nejad, Athar and Guzdial, Matthew and Boulanger, Pierre},
     journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     pages = {arXiv--2409},
     year = {2024},
   }

2. 

   Stress Detection from Photoplethysmography in a Virtual Reality Environment

   Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Pierre Boulanger, and Matthew Guzdial

   arXiv e-prints, 2024

   Bib

   @article{mahmoudi2024stress,
     title = {Stress Detection from Photoplethysmography in a Virtual Reality Environment},
     author = {Mahmoudi-Nejad, Athar and Boulanger, Pierre and Guzdial, Matthew},
     journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     pages = {arXiv--2409},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. 

   Label-Free Subjective Player Experience Modelling via Let’s Play Videos

   Dave Goel, Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, and Matthew Guzdial

   Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2024

   Bib

   @article{Dave2024Label,
     title = {Label-Free Subjective Player Experience Modelling via Let's Play Videos},
     author = {Goel, Dave and Mahmoudi-Nejad, Athar and Guzdial, Matthew},
     journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
     pages = {},
     year = {2024},
   }

2021

1. 

   Automated personalized exposure therapy based on physiological measures using experience-driven procedural content generation

   Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2021

   Bib

   @inproceedings{mahmoudi2021automated,
     title = {Automated personalized exposure therapy based on physiological measures using experience-driven procedural content generation},
     author = {Mahmoudi-Nejad, Athar},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
     volume = {17},
     number = {1},
     pages = {232--235},
     year = {2021},
   }

2. 

   Arachnophobia exposure therapy using experience-driven procedural content generation via reinforcement learning (EDPCGRL)

   Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Matthew Guzdial, and Pierre Boulanger

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2021

   Bib

   @inproceedings{mahmoudi2021arachnophobia,
     title = {Arachnophobia exposure therapy using experience-driven procedural content generation via reinforcement learning (EDPCGRL)},
     author = {Mahmoudi-Nejad, Athar and Guzdial, Matthew and Boulanger, Pierre},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
     volume = {17},
     number = {1},
     pages = {164--171},
     year = {2021},
   }

3. 

   Adaptive Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Based on Physiological Measures.

   Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Pierre Boulanger, and Matthew Guzdial

   In 25th Anniversary Annual International CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference, 2021

   Bib

   @inproceedings{mahmoudi2021adaptive,
     title = {Adaptive Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Based on Physiological Measures.},
     author = {Mahmoudi-Nejad, Athar and Boulanger, Pierre and Guzdial, Matthew},
     booktitle = {25th Anniversary Annual International CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference},
     year = {2021},
   }

4. 

   Learning analytics dashboard use in online courses: Why and how instructors interpret discussion data

   Gokce Akcayir, Leticia Farias Wanderley, Carrie Demmans Epp, and 2 more authors

   Visualizations and Dashboards for Learning Analytics, 2021

2018

1. 

   A framework for easier designs: Augmented intelligence in serious games for cognitive development

   Shadan Golestan, Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, and Hadi Moradi

   IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2018

   Bib

   @article{golestan2018framework,
     title = {A framework for easier designs: Augmented intelligence in serious games for cognitive development},
     author = {Golestan, Shadan and Mahmoudi-Nejad, Athar and Moradi, Hadi},
     journal = {IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine},
     volume = {8},
     number = {1},
     pages = {19--24},
     year = {2018},
     publisher = {IEEE},
   }

2017

1. 

   The differences between children with autism and typically developed children in using a hand-eye-coordination video game

   Athar Mahmoudi-Nejad, Hadi Moradi, and Hamid-Reza Pouretemad

   In Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: 11th International Conference, UCAmI 2017, Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 7–10, 2017, Proceedings, 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{mahmoudi2017differences,
     title = {The differences between children with autism and typically developed children in using a hand-eye-coordination video game},
     author = {Mahmoudi-Nejad, Athar and Moradi, Hadi and Pouretemad, Hamid-Reza},
     booktitle = {Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: 11th International Conference, UCAmI 2017, Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 7--10, 2017, Proceedings},
     pages = {256--264},
     year = {2017},
     organization = {Springer},
   }