• Kristinn R. Thorisson. Computational Characteristics of Multimodal Dialogue. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Embodied Language and Action, pages 102–108, 1995.
• Kristinn R. Thorisson. ToonFace: A System for Creating and Animating Interactive Cartoon Faces. Learning and Common Sense Section Technical Report, pages 96–101, 1996.
• Kristinn R. Thórisson. Gandalf: An Embodied Humanoid Capable of Real-Time Multimodal Dialogue with People. In Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents - AGENTS '97, pages 536–537, 1997. (doi:10.1145/267658.267823)
• Kristinn R. Thorisson. Layered modular action control for communicative humanoids. In Conference Proceedings of Computer Animation'97, pages 134–143, 1997. (doi:10.1109/CA.1997.601055)
• Kristinn R. Thorisson. Real-time decision making in multimodal face-to-face communication. In Proceedings of the Interantional Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 16–23, 1998. (doi:10.1145/280765.280769)
• Justine Cassell and Kristinn R. Thorisson. The power of a nod and a glance: Envelope vs. emotional feedback in animated conversational agents. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 13(4-5):519–538, 1999. (doi:10.1080/088395199117360)
• Kristinn R. Thorisson. Mind model for multimodal communicative creatures and humanoids, volume 13. 1999. (doi:10.1080/088395199117342)
• J. Bryson and K. R. Thorisson. Dragons, bats and evil knights: A three-layer design approach to character-based creative play. Virtual Reality, 5:57–71, 2000. (doi:10.1007/BF01424337)
• Kristinn R. Thorisson. Machine Perception of Multimodal Natural Dialogue. In P. McKevitt, S. O. Nullain, and C. Mulvihill, editors, Language, Vision and Music, pages 97–115. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2002.
• Kristinn R. Thórisson. Natural turn-taking needs no manual: computational theory and model, from perception to action. In Bjorn Granstrom, David House, and Inger Karlsson, editors, Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems, pages 173–207. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002.
• K. R. Thorisson, H. Benko, D. Abramov, A. Arnold, S. Maskey, and A. Vaseekaran. Constructionist design methodology for interactive intelligences. Ai Magazine, 25(4):77–90, 2004.
• Kristinn R. Thórisson, Christopher Pennock, Thor List, and John DiPirro. Artificial intelligence in computer graphics: a constructionist approach. SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph., 38(1):26–30, 2004. (doi:10.1145/1012272.1012275)
• Kristinn R. Thórisson. Avatar Intelligence Infusion - Key Noteworthy Issues. In 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence, 2007.
• Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir, Kristinn R. Thorisson, and Eric Nivel. Learning smooth, human-like turntaking in realtime dialogue. In International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2008. (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_17)
• Kristinn R. Thorisson. Modeling multimodal communication as a complex system. In Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans, pages 143–168. 2008. (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-79037-2_8)
• Kristinn R. Thorisson and Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir. A granular architecture for dynamic realtime dialogue. In International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, volume 5208 LNAI, pages 131–138, 2008. (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_13)
• Hannes Vilhjálmsson and Kristinn R. Thórisson. A brief history of function representation from Gandalf to SAIBA. In Proceedings of the 1st Function Markup Language Workshop at AAMAS, 2008.
• Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir and Kristinn R. Thorisson. Teaching computers to conduct spoken interviews: Breaking the realtime barrier with learning. In International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2009. (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_49)
• V. Ng-Thow-Hing, K. Thorisson, R. Sarvadevabhatla, J. Wormer, and T. List. Cognitive Map architecture for facilitating human-robot interaction in humanoid robots. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 16(1):55–66, 2009. (doi:10.1109/MRA.2008.931634)
• Kristinn R. Thórisson and Eric Nivel. Achieving Artificial General Intelligence Through Peewee Granularity. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, 2009. (doi:10.2991/agi.2009.42)
• Gudberg K. Johnsson and Kristinn R. Thorisson. Evaluating Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction: A Case Study of an Early Humanoid Prototype. In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on methods and techniques in behavioral research, 2010.
• Kristinn R. Thorisson, Olafur Gislason, Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir, and Hrafn Th. Thorisson. A Multiparty Multimodal Architecture for Realtime Turntaking. In International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2010.