4 papers
FaciliTrain: Practicing Facilitation Skills through AI-Simulated Group Dialogue
Hang Jiang, Yuanxin Zhu, Diyi Yang +3
Skilled facilitation supports inclusive small-group dialogue, but deliberate practice is hard to scale: it depends on expert coaches, live practice partners, and iterative feedback…
Generative Experiences for Digital Mental Health Interventions: Evidence from a Randomized Study
Ananya Bhattacharjee, Michael Liut, Matthew Jörke +3
Digital mental health (DMH) tools have extensively explored personalization of interventions to users' needs and contexts. However, this personalization often targets what support…
Behavior Latticing: Inferring User Motivations from Unstructured Interactions
Dora Zhao, Michelle S. Lam, Diyi Yang +1
A long-standing vision of computing is the personal AI system: one that understands us well enough to address our underlying needs. Today's AI focuses on what users do, ignoring wh…
Can LLM-Simulated Practice and Feedback Upskill Human Counselors? A Randomized Study with 90+ Novice Counselors
Ryan Louie, Raj Sanjay Shah, Ifdita Hasan Orney +3
The growing demand for accessible mental health support requires training more counselors, yet existing approaches remain resource-intensive and difficult to scale. LLMs can realis…