8 papers
Invisible Impact of Empathy on Behavioral Change: Isolating the Effect of Empathy in Long-term Physical Activity Coaching Chatbot Interactions
Li Siyan, Kai-Hui Liang, Shopnil Shahriar +7
Current dialogue systems, powered by large language models, often treat empathy as essential without assessing its true impact, especially in behavior change, where motivation and…
Deco: Extending Personal Physical Objects into Pervasive AI Companion through a Dual-Embodiment Framework
Zhihan Jiang, Mengyuan Millie Wu, Ruishi Zou +14
Individuals frequently form deep attachments to physical objects (e.g., plush toys) that usually cannot sense or respond to their emotions. While AI companions offer responsiveness…
Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Clinical AI: An Activity Theory Perspective on Interdisciplinary Data Work for Telehealth
Bingsheng Yao, Yao Du, Yue Fu +4
Advanced AI technologies are increasingly integrated into clinical domains to advance patient care. The design and development of clinical AI technologies necessitate seamless coll…
Rethinking Health Agents: From Siloed AI to Collaborative Decision Mediators
Ray-Yuan Chung, Xuhai Xu, Ari Pollack
Large language model based health agents are increasingly used by health consumers and clinicians to interpret health information and guide health decisions. However, most AI syste…
More than Decision Support: Exploring Patients' Longitudinal Usage of Large Language Models in Real-World Healthcare-Seeking Journeys
Yancheng Cao, Yishu Ji, Chris Yue Fu +6
Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted to support patients' healthcare-seeking in recent years. While prior patient-centered studies have examined the capabili…
Vital Insight: Assisting Experts' Context-Driven Sensemaking of Multi-modal Personal Tracking Data Using Visualization and Human-In-The-Loop LLM
Jiachen Li, Xiwen Li, Justin Steinberg +6
Passive tracking methods, such as phone and wearable sensing, have become dominant in monitoring human behaviors in modern ubiquitous computing studies. While there have been signi…