CS Undergraduate Students Received Best Presentation Award at Western HFES 2026
April 17, 2026.
CS undergraduates Vanessa Bolado and Emiliano Puchaicela received the Best Presentation Award at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2026 Western Regional Meeting for “A Testbed for Evaluating Prosodic Manipulations in Terms of Their Value in Collaborative Dialog.” In this they described a new game-based software setup for measuring how the contributions of appropriate speech prosody (patterns of pitch, loudness, lengthening, and voice quality) to trust formation in human-AI teaming.
