4 papers
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…
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.…
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…
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…