Publications (7)
SEER: Sustainable E-commerce with Environmental-impact Rating
Md Saiful Islam, Adiba Mahbub, Caleb Wohn +5
With online shopping gaining massive popularity over the past few years, e-commerce platforms can play a significant role in tackling climate change and other environmental problem…
"Having Lunch Now": Understanding How Users Engage with a Proactive Agent for Daily Planning and Self-Reflection
Adnan Abbas, Caleb Wohn, Arnav Jagtap +3
Conversational agents have been studied as tools to scaffold planning and self-reflection for productivity and well-being. While prior work has demonstrated positive outcomes, we s…
"Are we writing an advice column for Spock here?" Understanding Stereotypes in AI Advice for Autistic Users
Caleb Wohn, Buse Ãarık, Xiaohan Ding +3
Autistic individuals sometimes disclose autism when asking LLMs for social advice, hoping for more personalized responses. However, they also recognize that these systems may repro…
A Flexible Schema-Guided Dialogue Management Framework: From Friendly Peer to Virtual Standardized Cancer Patient
Benjamin Kane, Catherine Giugno, Lenhart Schubert +3
A schema-guided approach to dialogue management has been shown in recent work to be effective in creating robust customizable virtual agents capable of acting as friendly peers or…
Validating a virtual human and automated feedback system for training doctor-patient communication skills
Kurtis Haut, Caleb Wohn, Benjamin Kane +6
Effective communication between a clinician and their patient is critical for delivering healthcare maximizing outcomes. Unfortunately, traditional communication training approache…
Why LLMs Give In: Conversational Factors and Reasoning Behind Medical Sycophancy
Kaike Ping, Buse Ãarık, Caleb Wohn +3
A language model that abandons a correct medical answer under user pushback is more dangerous than one that was simply wrong, because it lends the credibility of a correct answer t…
Could you become more credible by being White? Assessing Impact of Race on Credibility with Deepfakes
Kurtis Haut, Caleb Wohn, Victor Antony +6
Computer mediated conversations (e.g., videoconferencing) is now the new mainstream media. How would credibility be impacted if one could change their race on the fly in these envi…