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Connecting through Comics: Design and Evaluation of Cube, an Arts-Based Digital Platform for Trauma-Impacted Youth
Ila Kumar, Jocelyn Shen, Craig Ferguson +1
This paper explores the design, development and evaluation of a digital platform that aims to assist young people who have experienced trauma in understanding and expressing their…
Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Designing Technology to Increase Social Support for Foster-Involved Youth
Ila Kumar, Craig Ferguson, Jiayi Wu +1
Approximately 400,000 youth in the US are living in foster care due to experiences with abuse or neglect at home. For multiple reasons, these youth often don't receive adequate soc…
Computational Empathy Counteracts the Negative Effects of Anger on Creative Problem Solving
Matthew Groh, Craig Ferguson, Robert Lewis +1
How does empathy influence creative problem solving? We introduce a computational empathy intervention based on context-specific affective mimicry and perspective taking by a virtu…
Human-centric Dialog Training via Offline Reinforcement Learning
Natasha Jaques, Judy Hanwen Shen, Asma Ghandeharioun +5
How can we train a dialog model to produce better conversations by learning from human feedback, without the risk of humans teaching it harmful chat behaviors? We start by hosting…
Way Off-Policy Batch Deep Reinforcement Learning of Implicit Human Preferences in Dialog
Natasha Jaques, Asma Ghandeharioun, Judy Hanwen Shen +5
Most deep reinforcement learning (RL) systems are not able to learn effectively from off-policy data, especially if they cannot explore online in the environment. These are critica…
Approximating Interactive Human Evaluation with Self-Play for Open-Domain Dialog Systems
Asma Ghandeharioun, Judy Hanwen Shen, Natasha Jaques +4
Building an open-domain conversational agent is a challenging problem. Current evaluation methods, mostly post-hoc judgments of static conversation, do not capture conversation qua…