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Rises in the number of animal abuse cases are reported around the world. While chatbots have been effective in influencing their users' perceptions and behaviors, little if any research has hitherto explored the design of chatbots that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jingshu Li , Aaditya Patwari , Yi-Chieh Lee

AI chatbots, built using large language models, are increasingly integrated into society and mimic the patterns of human text exchanges. While previous research has raised concerns that humans may form romantic attachment to chatbots, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Julia Kieserman , Cat Mai , Sara Lignell , Lucy Qin , Athanasios Andreou , Damon McCoy , Rosanna Bellini

Artificially intelligent chatbot, such as ChatGPT, represents a recent and powerful advancement in the AI domain. Users prefer them for obtaining quick and precise answers, avoiding the usual hassle of clicking through multiple links in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Seraj A. M. Mostafa , Md Z. Islam , Mohammad Z. Islam , Fairose Jeehan , Saujanna Jafreen , Raihan U. Islam

The development of natural language processing algorithms and the explosive growth of conversational data are encouraging researches on the human-computer conversation. Still, getting qualified conversational data on a large scale is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Sihyeon Jo , Seungryong Yoo , Sangwon Im , Seung Hee Yang , Tong Zuo , Hee-Eun Kim , SangWook Han , Seong-Woo Kim

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more widespread, one question that arises is how human-AI interaction might impact human-human interaction. Chatbots, for example, are increasingly used as social companions, and while much is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Rose E. Guingrich , Michael S. A. Graziano

Autonomous intelligent agents are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. They contain information about us and start to perform tasks on our behalves. Chatbots are an example of such agents that need to engage in a complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Abeer Dyoub , Stefania Costantini , Francesca A. Lisi

Apart from the coherence and fluency of responses, an empathetic chatbot emphasizes more on people's feelings. By considering altruistic behaviors between human interaction, empathetic chatbots enable people to get a better interactive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Jiun-Hao Jhan , Chao-Peng Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Hung-Yi Lee

Interview chatbots engage users in a text-based conversation to draw out their views and opinions. It is, however, challenging to build effective interview chatbots that can handle user free-text responses to open-ended questions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ziang Xiao , Michelle X. Zhou , Wenxi Chen , Huahai Yang , Changyan Chi

Regular physical activity is crucial for reducing the risk of non-communicable disease (NCD). With NCDs on the rise globally, there is an urgent need for effective health interventions, with chatbots emerging as a viable and cost-effective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Xin Sun , Isabelle Teljeur , Zhuying Li , Jos A. Bosch

Both dialogue systems and chatbots aim at putting into action communication between humans and computers. However, instead of focusing on sophisticated techniques to perform natural language understanding, as the former usually do, chatbots…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Maria João Pereira , Luísa Coheur , Pedro Fialho , Ricardo Ribeiro

Conversation interfaces (CIs), or chatbots, are a popular form of intelligent agents that engage humans in task-oriented or informal conversation. In this position paper and demonstration, we argue that chatbots working in dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Biplav Srivastava

Chatbots are a rapidly expanding application of dialogue systems with companies switching to bot services for customer support, and new applications for users interested in casual conversation. One style of casual conversation is argument,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Geetanjali Rakshit , Kevin K. Bowden , Lena Reed , Amita Misra , Marilyn Walker

In this paper, we describe the foundations for generating a chatbot out of a website equipped with simple, bot-specific HTML annotations. The approach is part of what we call conversational web browsing, i.e., a dialog-based, natural…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Pietro Chittò , Marcos Baez , Florian Daniel , Boualem Benatallah

Humor is a central aspect of human communication that has not been solved for artificial agents so far. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly able to capture implicit and contextual information. Especially, OpenAI's ChatGPT recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Sophie Jentzsch , Kristian Kersting

Task-based chatbots are software, typically embedded in real-world applications, that assist users in completing tasks through a conversational interface. As chatbots are gaining popularity, effectively assessing their quality has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Diego Clerissi , Elena Masserini , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Context: Online collaborative creation of models is becoming commonplace. Collaborative modeling using chatbots and natural language may lower the barriers to modeling for users from different domains. Objective: We compare the perceived…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ranci Ren , John W. Castro , Santiago R. Acuña , Oscar Dieste , Silvia T. Acuña

This paper gives an overview of impersonation bots that generate output in one, or possibly, multiple modalities. We also discuss rapidly advancing areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence that could lead to frighteningly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Terrence Adams

The emergence of an AI-powered chatbot that can generate human-like sentences and write coherent essays has caught the world's attention. This paper discusses the historical overview of chatbots and the technology behind Chat Generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Sakib Shahriar , Kadhim Hayawi

Social VR platforms serve as an emergent venue for live performance, enabling co-presence and real-time interaction among distributed performers and audiences within shared virtual environments. Live performances, such as comedy, rely on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ryo Ohara , Chi-Lan Yang , Yuji Hatada , Takuji Narumi , Hideaki Kuzuoka

Chatbots are increasingly integrated into people's lives and are widely used to help people. Recently, there has also been growing interest in the reverse direction-humans help chatbots-due to a wide range of benefits including better…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jingshu Li , Zicheng Zhu , Renwen Zhang , Yi-Chieh Lee