Yoo Jung (Erika) Oh, PhD

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Assistant Professor

362 Kerr Hall

Dr. Yoo Jung (Erika) Oh (Ph.D. University of California, Davis) specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) dialogue systems, commonly referred to as "AI chatbots." With an interest in the dynamics of human-AI communication, her research investigates the impact of persuasive AI on human perceptions and behaviors. Dr. Oh's research focuses on human perceptions, communication patterns, and the resulting persuasion and relational outcomes of human-AI interaction. Her studies have been published in outlets including the Journal of Communication, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, the International Journal of Communication.

Education and Degree(s)
  • PhD, Communication, UC Davis, 2023
  • M.A., Communication, Korea University, 2018
Publications
  • Oh, Y. J., Zhang, J., Fang, M. L., & Fukuoka, Y. (2021). A systematic review of artificial intelligence chatbots for promoting physical activity, healthy diet, and weight loss. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01224-6
  • Liang, K. H., Lange, P., Oh, Y. J., Zhang, J., Fukuoka, Y., & Yu, Z. (2021). Evaluation of In-Person Counseling Strategies To Develop Physical Activity Chatbot for Women. SIGDIAL. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10410.pdf
  • Stevens, H. R., Oh, Y. J., & Taylor, L. R. (2021). Desensitization to fear-inducing COVID-19 health news on Twitter: observational study. JMIR infodemiology, 1(1), e26876. https://doi.org/10.2196/26876
  • Liao, W., Zhang, J., Oh, Y. J., & Palomares, N. A. (2021). Linguistic Accommodation Enhances Compliance to Charity Donation: The Role of Interpersonal Communication Processes in Mediated Compliance-Gaining Conversations. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmab001
  • Zhang, J., Oh, Y. J., Lange, P., Yu, Z., & Fukuoka, Y. (2020). Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Behavior Change Model for Designing Artificial Intelligence Chatbots to Promote Physical Activity and a Healthy Diet. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(9), e22845. https://doi.org/10.2196/22845
  • Shi, W., Wang, X., Oh, Y. J., Zhang, J., Sahay, S., & Yu, Z. (2020). Effects of Persuasive Dialogues: Testing Bot Identities and Inquiry Strategies. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3313831.3376843
  • Wang, X., Shi, W., Kim, R., Oh, Y. J., Yang, S., Zhang, J., & Yu, Z. (2019). Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 5635-5649). Best Paper Nomination Award. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.06725.pdf
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