Self-disclosure is important to help us feel better, yet is often difficult. This difficulty can arise from how we think people are going to react to our self-disclosure. In this workshop paper, we briefly discuss self-disclosure to conversational user interfaces (CUIs) in relation to various social cues. We then, discuss how expressions of uncertainty or representation of a CUI's reasoning could help encourage self-disclosure, by making a CUI's intended "theory of mind" more transparent to users.
@article{arxiv.2507.10773,
title = {Theory of Mind and Self-Disclosure to CUIs},
author = {Samuel Rhys Cox},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.10773},
year = {2025}
}
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Workshop paper presented at ToMinHAI at CUI'2025: Theory of Mind in Human-CUI Interaction, held in conjunction with the 2025 ACM conference on Conversational User Interfaces, July 8th, 2025. 4 pages. 3 figures