4 papers
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…
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…
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,…
"Do it my way!": Impact of Customizations on Trust perceptions in Human-Robot Collaboration
Parv Kapoor, Simon Chu, Angela Chen
Trust has been shown to be a key factor in effective human-robot collaboration. In the context of assistive robotics, the effect of trust factors on human experience is further pro…