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In recent years the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent in a growing number of fields. As AI systems are being adopted in more high-stakes areas such as medicine and finance, ensuring that they are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Tobias M. Peters , Roel W. Visser

With increasing physicians' workload and patients' needs for care, there is a need for technology that facilitates physicians work and performs continues follow-up with patients. Existing approaches focus merely on improving patient's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Ahmed Fadhil

Artificially intelligent systems optimized for speech conversation are appearing at a fast pace. Such models are interesting from a healthcare perspective, as these voice-controlled assistants may support the elderly and enable remote…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Willemijn Klaassen , Bram van Dijk , Marco Spruit

Conversational agents open the world to new opportunities for human interaction and ubiquitous engagement. As their conversational abilities and knowledge has improved, these agents have begun to have access to an increasing variety of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Rahime Belen Saglam , Jason R. C. Nurse

Conversational agents or chatbots are widely investigated and used across different fields including healthcare, education, and marketing. Still, the development of chatbots for assisting secure coding practices is in its infancy. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Catherine Tony , Mohana Balasubramanian , Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Riccardo Scandariato

We describe an AI-powered chatbot to aid with health improvement by generating Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) cue texts that should reduce delay discounting. In prior studies, EFT has been shown to address maladaptive health behaviors.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Sareh Ahmadi , Edward A. Fox

Chatbots systems, despite their popularity in today's HCI and CSCW research, fall short for one of the two reasons: 1) many of the systems use a rule-based dialog flow, thus they can only respond to a limited number of pre-defined inputs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Liuping Wang , Dakuo Wang , Feng Tian , Zhenhui Peng , Xiangmin Fan , Zhan Zhang , Shuai Ma , Mo Yu , Xiaojuan Ma , Hongan Wang

Trustworthiness and trust are basic factors in common societies that allow us to interact and enjoy being in crowds without fear. As robotic devices start percolating into our daily lives they must behave as fully trustworthy objects, such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Gerhard P. Fettweis , Patricia Grünberg , Tim Hentschel , Stefan Köpsell

Various studies have been conducted on human-supporting robot systems. These systems have been put to practical use over the years and are now seen in our daily lives. In particular, robots communicating smoothly with people are expected to…

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

In this paper we discuss approaches to evaluating and validating the ethical claims of a Conversational AI system. We outline considerations around both a top-down regulatory approach and bottom-up processes. We describe the ethical basis…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Elayne Ruane , Vivek Nallur

Conversational agents, also known as chatbots, are versatile tools that have the potential of being used in dialogical argumentation. They could possibly be deployed in tasks such as persuasion for behaviour change (e.g. persuading people…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Lisa A. Chalaguine , Anthony Hunter , Fiona L. Hamilton , Henry W. W. Potts

The accelerated path of technological development, particularly at the interface between hardware and biology has been suggested as evidence for future major technological breakthroughs associated to our potential to overcome biological…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-18 Ricard Sole

The fast growth of digital health systems has led to a need to better comprehend how they interpret and represent patient-reported symptoms. Chatbots have been used in healthcare to provide clinical support and enhance the user experience,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hamed Razavi

AI-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT have caused a tremendous hype lately. For BPM applications, several applications for AI-driven chatbots have been identified to be promising to generate business value, including explanation of process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Nataliia Klievtsova , Janik-Vasily Benzin , Timotheus Kampik , Juergen Mangler , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Advances in artificial intelligence have renewed interest in conversational agents. Additionally to software developers, today all kinds of employees show interest in new technologies and their possible applications for customers. German…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Falko Koetter , Matthias Blohm , Jens Drawehn , Monika Kochanowski , Joscha Goetzer , Daniel Graziotin , Stefan Wagner

What does Artificial Intelligence (AI) have to contribute to health care? And what should we be looking out for if we are worried about its risks? In this paper we offer a survey, and initial evaluation, of hopes and fears about the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Robert Sparrow , Joshua Hatherley

Social interactions promote well-being, yet barriers like geographic distance, time limitations, and mental health conditions can limit face-to-face interactions. Emotionally responsive AI systems, such as chatbots, offer new opportunities…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mahnaz Roshanaei , Rezvaneh Rezapour , Magy Seif El-Nasr

Recent development in developing humanoid robot poses new challenges to human-machine interaction communication. A major challenge is to develop robots that can behave like and interact with human in the most natural way possible. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Ong Sing Goh , Lance Fung

The Open Data movement promotes the free distribution of data. More and more companies and governmental organizations are making their data available online following the Open Data philosophy, resulting in a growing market of technologies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hamza Ed-douibi , Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo , Gwendal Daniel , Jordi Cabot