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cs.HC2025
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…
cs.HC2024
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.…
cs.HC2024
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…