4 papers
Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication
Jocelyn Shen, Akhila Yerukola, Xuhui Zhou +3
Conversational breakdowns in close relationships are deeply shaped by personal histories and emotional context, yet most NLP research treats conflict detection as a general task, o…
Social Robots as Social Proxies for Fostering Connection and Empathy Towards Humanity
Jocelyn Shen, Audrey Lee, Sharifa Alghowinem +3
Despite living in an increasingly connected world, social isolation is a prevalent issue today. While social robots have been explored as tools to enhance social connection through…
HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs
Jocelyn Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park +2
Empathy serves as a cornerstone in enabling prosocial behaviors, and can be evoked through sharing of personal experiences in stories. While empathy is influenced by narrative cont…
EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy towards Personal Experiences
Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse +4
Modeling empathy is a complex endeavor that is rooted in interpersonal and experiential dimensions of human interaction, and remains an open problem within AI. Existing empathy dat…