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ConAlign: Conditional Alignment Framework for Balancing Biased and Unbiased Recommendation
Jingcheng Zhang, Yihan Wang, Qi Song +1
Industry recommender systems trained on observational data suffer from various biases that create filter bubbles, causing user interests to collapse into narrow categories and seve…
Seamlessly Integrating Factual Information and Social Content with Persuasive Dialogue
Maximillian Chen, Weiyan Shi, Feifan Yan +4
Complex conversation settings such as persuasion involve communicating changes in attitude or behavior, so users' perspectives need to be addressed, even when not directly related…
Evaluation of In-Person Counseling Strategies To Develop Physical Activity Chatbot for Women
Kai-Hui Liang, Patrick Lange, Yoo Jung Oh +3
Artificial intelligence chatbots are the vanguard in technology-based intervention to change people's behavior. To develop intervention chatbots, the first step is to understand na…
Conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origination on Chinese social media: How it started and who is to blame
Kaiping Chen, Anfan Chen, Jingwen Zhang +2
This paper studies conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origination on a major Chinese social media platform, Weibo, from January to April 2020. Popular conspiracies…
Using Reports of Own and Others' Symptoms and Diagnosis on Social Media to Predict COVID-19 Case Counts: Observational Infoveillance Study in Mainland China
Cuihua Shen, Anfan Chen, Chen Luo +3
Can public social media data be harnessed to predict COVID-19 case counts? We analyzed approximately 15 million COVID-19 related posts on Weibo, a popular Twitter-like social media…
Effects of Persuasive Dialogues: Testing Bot Identities and Inquiry Strategies
Weiyan Shi, Xuewei Wang, Yoo Jung Oh +3
Intelligent conversational agents, or chatbots, can take on various identities and are increasingly engaging in more human-centered conversations with persuasive goals. However, li…
Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good
Xuewei Wang, Weiyan Shi, Richard Kim +4
Developing intelligent persuasive conversational agents to change people's opinions and actions for social good is the frontier in advancing the ethical development of automated di…