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A Deployable Architecture for Robot-Mediated Tasks (DART): Evaluation in Socially Assistive Robot-Guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises
Mina Kian, Lydia Ignatova, Jiong Wang +12
Socially assistive robots (SARs) can support structured health and well-being interventions, but hardware and cost constraints limit interaction complexity and longitudinal real-wo…
Personalized Socially Assistive Robots With End-to-End Speech-Language Models For Well-Being Support
Mengxue Fu, Zhonghao Shi, Minyu Huang +4
Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great potential for supplementing well-being support. However, prior studies have found that existing dialogue pipelines for SARs remain…
Engagement and Disclosures in LLM-Powered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises: A Factorial Design Comparing the Influence of a Robot vs. Chatbot Over Time
Mina Kian, Mingyu Zong, Katrin Fischer +10
Many researchers are working to address the worldwide mental health crisis by developing therapeutic technologies that increase the accessibility of care, including leveraging larg…
Mechanistic Interpretability of Emotion Inference in Large Language Models
Ala N. Tak, Amin Banayeeanzade, Anahita Bolourani +3
Large language models (LLMs) show promising capabilities in predicting human emotions from text. However, the mechanisms through which these models process emotional stimuli remain…
How Can Large Language Models Enable Better Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey
Zhonghao Shi, Ellen Landrum, Amy O' Connell +5
Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great success in providing personalized cognitive-affective support for user populations with special needs such as older adults, childr…
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception
Nathaniel S. Dennler, Mina Kian, Stefanos Nikolaidis +1
Perceptions of gender are a significant aspect of human-human interaction, and gender has wide-reaching social implications for robots deployed in contexts where they are expected…
LLM-Powered Socially Assistive Robot-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises: an Exploratory Study with University Students
Mina Kian, Mina J. Kian, Mingyu Zong +18
Mental health is a significant healthcare challenge, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a widely used therapeutic method for treating anxiety and depression. However, tradit…