3 papers
cs.CL2026
The Machine's Internal Clock: Do LLMs Share Human Temporal Illusions?
Catherine Bao, Vivek Srikumar
Human perception of time is subjective. Well-documented temporal illusions show that the brain relies on context and relational cues for judging duration instead of tracking elapse…
cs.CY2026
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…
cs.CY2026
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,…