About
My PhD is within the field of applied forensic psychology and child welfare focusing on investigative interviews with children in the Police and in the Child Protection Services.
My educational background is clinical psychology with subspeciality in Clinical work with children and youth. Before that, I took a BA-degree in Child Welfare and one year of Criminology, practicing in the Child Protection Service in the municipality of Bærum for almost four years before going back to the University.
As a clinical psychologist I have primarily been working within Division of Mental Health Care for children and youth, Hospital clinics in Oslo and Vestfold. For the last five years I have worked as a consultant and clinical psychologist at the Barnahus in Sandefjord (Children's Advocacy Center) in the South-East Police District. The areas of witness psychology, developmental and trauma psychology and child maltreatment in the forensic, clinical and systemic approach are my special interests.
Research groups
Research projects
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Professionals interviewing maltreated children supported via artificial avatars
The project proposes to develop a new digital interview-training program drawing on expertise in developmental psychology and artificial intelligence
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Powell, Martine B.; Riegler, Michael; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid
(2023).
A field assessment of child abuse investigators' engagement with a child-avatar to develop interviewing skills.
International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect.
Vol. 143.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106324
Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid; Zohaib Hassan, Syed; Shafiee Sabet, Saeed; Salehi, Pegah; Powell, Martine B.; Riegler, Michael Alexander; Halvorsen, Pål; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam
(2023).
Enhancing questioning skills through child avatar chatbot training with feedback.
Frontiers in Psychology.
Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1198235
Hassan, Syed Zohaib; Salehi, Pegah; Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Halvorsen, Pål; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid; S. Johnson, Miriam; Lison, Pierre; Riegler, Michael; Lamb, Michael E.; Griwodz, Carsten; Sabet, Saeed
(2022).
Towards an AI-driven talking avatar in virtual reality for investigative interviews of children.
Claypool, Mark; Eg, Ragnhild (Ed.).
GameSys '22: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Games Systems. p. 9-15.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3534085.3534340
Salehi, Pegah; Hassan, Syed Zohaib; Lammerse, Myrthe; Shafiee Sabet, Saeed; Riiser, Ingvild; Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Sinkerud Johnson, Miriam; Hicks, Steven; Thambawita, Vajira; Powell, Martine; Lamb, Michael E.; Baugerud, Gunn Astrid; Halvorsen, Pål; Riegler, Michael
(2022).
Synthesizing a Talking Child Avatar to Train Interviewers Working with Maltreated Children.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing.
Vol. 6.
https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc6020062
Baugerud, Gunn Astrid; Johnson, Miriam Sinkerud; Røed, Ragnhild Klingenberg; Lamb, Michael E.; Powell, Martine; Thambawita, Vajira L B; Hicks, Steven; Salehi, Pegah; Hassan, Syed Zohaib; Halvorsen, Pål; Riegler, Michael
(2021).
Multimodal Virtual Avatars for Investigative Interviews with Children.
Dao, Minh-Son; Dang-Nguyen, Duc-Tien; Riegler, Michael (Ed.).
ICDAR '21: Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval. p. 2-8.
ACM Digital Library.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3463944.3469269
