Stefán Ólafsson

Research Interests

Events & Activities

• Participant in the Nordic AI Union Workshop

  April 7, 2026 · Reykjavik

• Attending CLARIN University Curricula Workshop

  April 20–22, 2026 · Utrecht, Netherlands

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Teaching

• Natural Language Processing (MSc)

  Fall 2022-2025 · Reykjavik University

• Research Methods (MSc)

  Spring 2023-2025 · Reykjavik University

• Introduction to AI (BSc)

  Spring 2023 · Reykjavik University

• Introduction to HCI (MSc)

  Spring 2019 · Northeastern University

Selected Publications

• Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information
  TW Bickmore, H Trinh, S Olafsson, TK O'Leary, R Asadi, NM Rickles, ...
  Journal of Medical Internet Research 20 (9), e11510
  2018
• Motivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents
  S Olafsson, TK O'Leary, TW Bickmore
  Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  2020
• Accommodating User Expressivity while Maintaining Safety for a Virtual Alcohol Misuse Counselor
  S Olafsson, P Pedrelli, BC Wallace, T Bickmore
  Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  2023

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Start-ups

• Careflux

  Co-founder · January 2024

• Rekovy

  Co-founder · May 2024