45 citations · 100 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for
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Supporting Couples' Social Well-being in Daily Life: A Needs Assessment and Co-design with Co-located Couples
Yuna Naito, Timothy Bickmore, Varun Mishra +1
Romantic relationships shape physical, mental, and social well-being, and relationship quality is built through everyday interactions. Addressing minor issues early and reinforcing…
Assessing Risks of Large Language Models in Mental Health Support: A Framework for Automated Clinical AI Red Teaming
Ian Steenstra, Paola Pedrelli, Weiyan Shi +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized for mental health support; however, current safety benchmarks often fail to detect the complex, longitudinal risks inherent i…
Relational Appliances: A Robot in the Refrigerator for Home-Based Health Promotion
Timothy Bickmore, Mehdi Arjmand, Yunus Terzioglu
Kitchen appliances are frequently used domestic artifacts situated at the point of everyday dietary decision making, making them a promising but underexplored site for health promo…
A Risk Ontology for Evaluating AI-Powered Psychotherapy Virtual Agents
Ian Steenstra, Timothy W. Bickmore
The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Intelligent Virtual Agents acting as psychotherapists presents significant opportunities for expanding mental healthcare acces…
Scaffolding Empathy: Training Counselors with Simulated Patients and Utterance-level Performance Visualizations
Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Timothy W. Bickmore
Learning therapeutic counseling involves significant role-play experience with mock patients, with current manual training methods providing only intermittent granular feedback. We…
Virtual Agent-Based Communication Skills Training to Facilitate Health Persuasion Among Peers
Farnaz Nouraei, Keith Rebello, Mina Fallah +6
Many laypeople are motivated to improve the health behavior of their family or friends but do not know where to start, especially if the health behavior is potentially stigmatizing…
Virtual Agents for Alcohol Use Counseling: Exploring LLM-Powered Motivational Interviewing
Ian Steenstra, Farnaz Nouraei, Mehdi Arjmand +1
We introduce a novel application of large language models (LLMs) in developing a virtual counselor capable of conducting motivational interviewing (MI) for alcohol use counseling.…
Investigating User Perceptions of Collaborative Agenda Setting in Virtual Health Counseling Session
Mina Fallah, Farnaz Nouraei, Hye Sun Yun +1
Virtual health counselors offer the potential to provide users with information and counseling in complex areas such as disease management and health education. However, ensuring u…
Empathic Grounding: Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents
Mehdi Arjmand, Farnaz Nouraei, Ian Steenstra +1
We introduce the concept of "empathic grounding" in conversational agents as an extension of Clark's conceptualization of grounding in conversation in which the grounding criterion…
Keeping Users Engaged During Repeated Administration of the Same Questionnaire: Using Large Language Models to Reliably Diversify Questions
Hye Sun Yun, Mehdi Arjmand, Phillip Sherlock +3
Standardized, validated questionnaires are vital tools in research and healthcare, offering dependable self-report data. Prior work has revealed that virtual agent-administered que…