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ConSearcher: Supporting Conversational Information Seeking in Online Communities with Member Personas
Shiwei Wu, Xinyue Chen, Yuheng Liu +5
Many people browse online communities to learn from others' experiences and opinions, e.g., for constructing travel plans. Conversational search powered by large language models (L…
VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Han Zhang, KaWing Tsang, Zhenhui Peng
Many people struggle with social anxiety, feeling fear, or even physically uncomfortable in social situations like talking to strangers. Exposure therapy, a clinical method that gr…
ComViewer: An Interactive Visual Tool to Help Viewers Seek Social Support in Online Mental Health Communities
Shiwei Wu, Mingxiang Wang, Chuhan Shi +1
Online mental health communities (OMHCs) offer rich posts and comments for viewers, who do not directly participate in the communications, to seek social support from others' exper…
MentalImager: Exploring Generative Images for Assisting Support-Seekers' Self-Disclosure in Online Mental Health Communities
Han Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, Yuxiang Zhou +5
Support-seekers' self-disclosure of their suffering experiences, thoughts, and feelings in the post can help them get needed peer support in online mental health communities (OMHCs…
ComPeer: A Generative Conversational Agent for Proactive Peer Support
Tianjian Liu, Hongzheng Zhao, Yuheng Liu +2
Conversational Agents (CAs) acting as peer supporters have been widely studied and demonstrated beneficial for people's mental health. However, previous peer support CAs either are…