8 papers
Relationship-Centered Care: Relatedness and Responsible Design for Human Connections in Mental-Health Care
Shivam Shukla, Emily Chen, Mahnaz Roshanaei +1
There has been a growing research interest in Digital Therapeutic Alliance (DTA) as the field of AI-powered conversational agents are being deployed in mental health care, particul…
Symbolic Mechanistic Data Attribution: Tracing Training Influence to Learned Behavioral Policies
Reza Habibi, Darian Lee, Magy Seif El-Nasr
While existing data attribution methods can identify which training examples build specific mechanistic circuits, they cannot explain how training data shapes the high-level behavi…
Unlocking Open-Player-Modeling-enhanced Game-Based Learning: The Open Player Socially Analytical Intelligence Architecture
Zhiyu Lin, Boyd Fox, Devon Mckee +7
Game-Based Learning (GBL) is a learner-engaging pedagogical methodology, yet adapting games to heterogeneous learners requires transparent, real-time Open Player Models (OPMs). We…
Change is Hard: Consistent Player Behavior Across Games with Conflicting Incentives
Emily Chen, Alexander J. Bisberg, Dmitri Williams +2
This paper examines how player flexibility -- a player's willingness to engage in a breadth of options or specialize -- manifests across two gaming environments: League of Legends…
Beyond Accuracy: Introducing a Symbolic-Mechanistic Approach to Interpretable Evaluation
Reza Habibi, Darian Lee, Magy Seif El-Nasr
Accuracy-based evaluation cannot reliably distinguish genuine generalization from shortcuts like memorization, leakage, or brittle heuristics, especially in small-data regimes. In…
Talk, Listen, Connect: How Humans and AI Evaluate Empathy in Responses to Emotionally Charged Narratives
Mahnaz Roshanaei, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Magy Seif El-Nasr
Social interactions promote well-being, yet barriers like geographic distance, time limitations, and mental health conditions can limit face-to-face interactions. Emotionally respo…