Arnav Jhala

Journal article Journal of sex research · July 2026 Family communication about puberty, relationships, and sexuality is an important component of healthy sexual development for early adolescents who are beginning puberty and navigating increased interest in sexual and romantic relationships. Yet sexual comm ... Full text Cite

Student experiences with a molecular biotechnology course containing an interactive 3D immersive simulation and its impact on motivational beliefs.

Journal article PloS one · January 2024 The development and use of virtual laboratories to augment traditional in-person skills training continues to grow. Virtual labs have been implemented in a number of diverse educational settings, which have many purported benefits including their adaptabil ... Full text Cite

Characterizing the perception of urban spaces from visual analytics of street-level imagery

Journal article AI and Society · August 1, 2023 This project uses machine learning and computer vision techniques and a novel interactive visualization tool to provide street-level characterization of urban spaces such as safety and maintenance in urban neighborhoods. This is achieved by collecting and ... Full text Cite

Developing a Construction Domain-Specific Artificial Intelligence Language Model for NCDOT's CLEAR Program to Promote Organizational Innovation and Institutional Knowledge

Journal article Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering · May 1, 2023 Transportation agency personnel gain valuable knowledge through their work, but such knowledge is lost if it is not documented properly after the worker leaves the organization. The risk of losing institutional knowledge is a current problem at state depar ... Full text Cite

A Digital Communication Twin for Addressing Misinformation: Vision, Challenges, Opportunities

Journal article IEEE Internet Computing · January 1, 2022 In this article, we propose a novel approach to address the major ethical and societal problem of misinformation on social media. Specifically, how can we identify misinformation, understand how it spreads, and produce effective interventions? Our envision ... Full text Cite

Leveraging Multiple Representations of Topic Models for Knowledge Discovery

Journal article IEEE Access · January 1, 2022 Topic models are often useful in categorization of related documents in information retrieval and knowledge discovery systems, especially for large datasets. Interpreting the output of these models remains an ongoing challenge for the research community. T ... Full text Cite

Redeveloping a Digital Sexual Health Intervention for Adolescents to Allow for Broader Dissemination: Implications for HIV and STD Prevention.

Journal article AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · April 2021 HIV/STDs and unintended pregnancy persist among adolescents in the United States; thus, effective sexual health interventions that can be broadly disseminated are necessary. Digital health interventions are highly promising because they allow for customiza ... Full text Cite

From mechanics to meaning

Journal article IEEE Transactions on Games · March 1, 2019 —While generative approaches to game design offer great promise, systems can only reliably generate what they can “understand,” which is often represented in a limited, implicit form in hand-crafted evaluation functions or constructive rules. Proceduralist ... Full text Cite

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Journal article Ceur Workshop Proceedings · January 1, 2018 Cite

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Journal article Proceedings of the 10th Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Aiide 2014 · January 1, 2014 Cite

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Journal article Proceedings of the 9th Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Aiide 2013 · January 1, 2013 Full text Cite

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Journal article Proceedings of the 6th Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Aiide 2010 · December 1, 2010 Cite

Towards affective camera control in games

Journal article User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction · October 1, 2010 Information about interactive virtual environments, such as games, is perceived by users through a virtual camera. While most interactive applications let users control the camera, in complex navigation tasks within 3D environments users often get frustrat ... Full text Cite

Cinematic visual discourse: Representation, generation, and evaluation

Journal article IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games · June 1, 2010 In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of an end-to-end camera planning system called Darshak. Darshak automatically constructs cinematic narrative discourse of a given story in a 3-D virtual environment. It utilizes a hierarc ... Full text Cite