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Empirically Grounded Behavioral Adaptivity for LLM-Based Virtual Patients in Psychotherapy Training
Angela Chen, Siwei Jin, Catherine Bao +5
Simulated patients offer a scalable way to train psychotherapy micro-skills such as empathic responding and exploratory probing, but current systems either follow fixed scripts or…
Design Principles for Human-Agent Interaction
Haiyi Zhu, Canwen Wang, Qing Xiao +1
AI agents are rapidly evolving into autonomous systems capable of sustained interaction, tool use, and long-term collaboration. Yet their real-world adoption remains limited, sugge…
"Not Human, Funnier": How Machine Identity Shapes Humor Perception in Online AI Stand-up Comedy
Xuehan Huang, Canwen Wang, Yifei Hao +2
Chatbots are increasingly applied to domains previously reserved for human actors. One such domain is comedy, whereby both the general public working with ChatGPT and research-base…
Modeling of Therapist-Client Dynamics in Psychotherapy Using LLM-Based Assessments: An Empirical Study
Angela Chen, Siwei Jin, Canwen Wang +4
This study aimed to develop and validate a computational framework for modeling therapist--client interaction processes and to examine how therapist behaviors and relational qualit…
Understanding Gaming the System by Analyzing Self-Regulated Learning in Think-Aloud Protocols
Jiayi Zhang, Conrad Borchers, Canwen Wang +4
In digital learning systems, gaming the system refers to occasions when students attempt to succeed in an educational task by systematically taking advantage of system features rat…
Simulating Couple Conflict: Designing A Multi-Agent System for Therapy Training and Practice
Canwen Wang, Angela Chen, Catherine Bao +5
Couples therapy requires managing complex, evolving emotional dynamics between partners, but traditional training methods for therapists, like role-play, lack realism, consistency,…
Leveraging Large Language Models for Identifying Knowledge Components
Canwen Wang, Jionghao Lin, Kenneth R. Koedinger
Knowledge Components (KCs) are foundational to adaptive learning systems, but their manual identification by domain experts is a significant bottleneck. While Large Language Models…
VTutor: An Open-Source SDK for Generative AI-Powered Animated Pedagogical Agents with Multi-Media Output
Eason Chen, Chenyu Lin, Xinyi Tang +4
The rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) has transformed human-computer interaction (HCI), but the interaction with LLMs is currently mainly focused on text-based intera…