Hi, I'm James, a PhD Student @ Macquarie University

Education

Macquarie University

Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology/Computing

Macquarie University

Master's of Research, Psychology

University of York

Master's of Science, Human Centred Interactive Technologies

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Computer Science, Minor Economics

Work Experience

Maluuba Inc. (acquired by Microsoft)

Business Program Manager

Jan 2012  - Jun 2017

Research in Motion (BlackBerry) Ltd.

Core UI Developer Intern

Straightway Technologies Inc.

President & CEO

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

• James Simpson, Patrick Nalepka, Rachel W. Kallen, Mark Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon Hosking, Christopher Best, Deborah Richards, and Michael J. Richardson. Conversation Dynamics in a Multiplayer Video Game with Knowledge Asymmetry. Frontiers in Psychology, 7031

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

• James Simpson. Has Wizard of Oz Testing Passed Its Use by Date? In Proceedings of the CSCW 2023 Workshop Supporting User Engagement in Testing, Auditing and Contesting AI. October 15, 2023. Minneapolis, MN, USA. ACM. New York, NY, USA. 5 Pages. [PDF][Video]

• James Simpson. Is AI Mimicry Leading to Disappointment? In Proceedings of the CSCW 2023 Workshop Understanding and Mitigating Cognitive Biases in Human-AI Collaboration. October 14, 2023. Minneapolis, MN, USA. ACM. New York, NY, USA. 3 Pages. [PDF][Video]

• James Simpson, Patrick Nalepka, Hamish Stening, Mark Dras, Rachel W. Kallen, Deborah Richards, Michael Richardson. How do People Perceive Collaborative Conversational Agents? In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. July 26-29, 2023. Sydney, Australia. Cognitive Science Society. Seattle, WA, USA. Pg  3379. [PDF] [Poster] 

• James Simpson. 2023. Towards Collaborative Conversational User Interfaces for Team Training. In Companion Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 211–213. [PDF] [Poster]

• James Simpson, Michael Richardson, and Deborah Richards. 2022. A Wizard or a Fool? Initial Assessment of a Wizard of Oz Agent Supporting Collaborative Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 299–301. [PDF][Poster]

• James Simpson, Hamish Stening, Patrick Nalepka, Mark Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon Hosking, Christopher J. Best, Deborah Richards, and Michael J. Richardson. 2022. DesertWoZ: A Wizard of Oz Environment to Support the Design of Collaborative Conversational Agents. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'22 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 188–192. [PDF] [Video]

• James Simpson and Cassandra Crone. 2022. Should Alexa be a Police Officer, a Doctor, or a Priest? Towards CUI Relationships Worth Having. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 20, 1–5. [PDF] [Video]

• James Simpson, Patrick Nalepka, Cassandra Crone, Rachel W. Kallen, Marks Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon G. Hosking, Christoper Best, Deborah Richards, Michael J. Richardson. 2021. Tip of the Finger or Tip of the Tongue? The Effects of Verbal Communication. on Online Multi-Player Team Performance. In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '21 Companion), October 23-27, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. [PDF] [Video]

• James Simpson and Deborah Richards. 2021. Taming the Interaction Jungle: Embodiment is All You Need. In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI ’21), July 27–29, 2021, Bilbao (online), Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages.[PDF] [Video]

• James Simpson and Cassandra Crone. 2021. Can Alexa be a Team Player? In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI ’21), July 27–29, 2021, Bilbao (online), Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. [PDF] [Video]

• James Simpson. 2020. Are CUIs Just GUIs with Speech Bubbles? In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 23, 1–3. [PDF] [Video]

• James Simpson, Franziska Gaiser, Miroslav Macík, and Timna Breßgott. 2020. Daisy: A Friendly Conversational Agent for Older Adults. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 33, 1–3. [PDF] [Video]

• James Simpson. 2019. How is siri different than GUIs?. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces: Companion (IUI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 145-146. [PDF] 

• James Simpson and Michael Terry. 2011. Embedding Interface Sketches in Code. In Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium adjunct on User interface software and technology (UIST '11 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 91-92. [PDF] 

Granted Patents

• Pasupalak, S.; Pantony, J. R.; Hsu, W.; Wu, Z.; Tregenza, P.; Suleman, K.; Simpson, J; McNamara, A.; Ismail, T.; “Conversational Agent” 2017, U.S. Patent No. 9575963B2

• Simpson, J.; Pasupalak, S.; Musbah, M.; Lee, J.;”Interactive User Interface for an Intelligent Assistant”: 2016, U.S. Patent No. 9292254B2

• Simpson, J. A.; Bos, J. C.; “Mechanism for Facilitation of Correct Card Insertion in Electronic Devices” 2013, U.S. Patent No. 8408930B1

Professional Service

Conference Refereeing

• ACM CHI 2021-2023, 2025

• ACM CUI 2023-2024

• ACM CSCW 2021, 2022

• ACM HAI 2022

• ACM IUI 2021, 2023

• OzCHI 2022

• INTERACT 2021

Conference Session Chair

• ACM UIST 2021

Conference Student Volunteer

• ACM CHI 2023

• ACM CSCW 2021, 2023

• ACM DIS 2019

• ACM IUI 2019

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