Effectiveness and acceptability of conversational agents for sexual health promotion: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Balaji, L He, S Giani, T Bosse, R Wiers… - Sexual …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Digital health interventions for sexual health promotion have evolved considerably
alongside innovations in technology. Despite these efforts, studies have shown that they do …

An integrative survey on mental health conversational agents to bridge computer science and medical perspectives

YM Cho, S Rai, L Ungar, J Sedoc… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Mental health conversational agents (aka chatbots) are widely studied for their potential to
offer accessible support to those experiencing mental health challenges. Previous surveys …

Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing Insecurity

BA Halperin, G Hsieh, E McElroy, J Pierce… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Despite the central role that stories play in social movement-building, they are difficult to
sustainably document for many reasons. To explore this challenge, this paper describes the …

Online dating as context to design sexual consent technology with women and lgbtq+ stakeholders

D Zytko, N Furlo - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper uses online dating as a context to explore futures for sexual consent technology:
systems that mediate how partners exchange consent in order to prevent nonconsensual …

Co-designing AI agents to support social connectedness among online learners: functionalities, social characteristics, and ethical challenges

Q Wang, S Jing, AK Goel - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Due to the lack of face-to-face interactions, online learners frequently experience social
isolation that negatively impacts students' well-being and learning experiences. Many text …

The Promise and Peril of ChatGPT in Higher Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Design Implications

H Park, D Ahn - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A growing number of students in higher education are using ChatGPT for various
educational purposes, ranging from seeking information to writing essays. Although many …

Foregrounding women's safety in mobile social matching and dating apps: a participatory design study

HK Aljasim, D Zytko - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The design of social matching and dating apps has changed continually through the years,
marked notably by a shift to mobile devices, and yet user safety has not historically been a …

Large language models produce responses perceived to be empathic

YK Lee, J Suh, H Zhan, JJ Li, DC Ong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18148, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated surprising performance on many tasks,
including writing supportive messages that display empathy. Here, we had these models …

Recentering reframing as an RtD contribution: The case of pivoting from accessible web tables to a conversational Internet

J Zimmerman, A Steinfeld, A Tomasic… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Design produces valuable knowledge by offering new perspectives that reframe problematic
situations. Research through Design (RtD) contributes new frames along with design work …

Extending chatbots to probe users: Enhancing complex decision-making through probing conversations

L Reicherts, GW Park, Y Rogers - Proceedings of the 4th Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Chatbots have become commonplace–they can provide customer support, take orders,
collect feedback, and even provide (mental) health support. Despite this diversity, the …