8 papers
The Empirically Grounded Adaptive Virtual Patient for Psychotherapy Training: Disclosure That Responds to Therapist Micro-Skills
Angela Chen, Siwei Jin, Catherine Bao +4
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…
Empirical Modeling of Therapist-Client Dynamics in Psychotherapy Using LLM-Based Assessments
Angela Chen, Siwei Jin, Canwen Wang +4
Psychotherapy is a primary treatment for many mental health conditions, yet the interplay among therapist behaviors, client responses, and the therapeutic relationship is difficult…
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…
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,…
"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…
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…