5 papers
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…