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As a critical step to achieve human-like chatbots, empathetic response generation has attained increasing interests. Previous attempts are incomplete and not sufficient enough to elicit empathy because they only focus on the initial aspect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Weixiang Zhao , Yanyan Zhao , Xin Lu , Bing Qin

Incorporating empathetic behavior into robots can improve their social effectiveness and interaction quality. In this paper, we present whEE (when and how to express empathy), a framework that enables social robots to detect when empathy is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Christian Arzate Cruz , Edwin C. Montiel-Vazquez , Chikara Maeda , Randy Gomez

Supporting users in protecting sensitive information when using conversational agents (CAs) is crucial, as users may undervalue privacy protection due to outdated, partial, or inaccurate knowledge about privacy in CAs. Although privacy…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Mohammad Hadi Nezhad , Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro , Ivon Arroyo

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT offer potential support for autistic people, but this potential requires understanding the implicit perspectives these models might carry, including their biases and assumptions about autism. Moving…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Sohyeon Park , Jesus Armando Beltran , Aehong Min , Anamara Ritt-Olson , Gillian R. Hayes

Conversational agents have been showing lots of opportunities in healthcare by taking over a lot of tasks that used to be done by a human. One of the major functions of conversational healthcare agent is intervening users' daily behaviors.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Youjin Hwang , Donghoon Shin , Sion Baek , Bongwon Suh , Joonhwan Lee

In this paper, we propose Tutoring bot, a generative chatbot trained on a large scale of tutor-student conversations for English-language learning. To mimic a human tutor's behavior in language education, the tutor bot leverages diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Hyungjoo Chae , Minjin Kim , Chaehyeong Kim , Wonseok Jeong , Hyejoong Kim , Junmyung Lee , Jinyoung Yeo

Conversational practice, while crucial for all language learners, can be challenging to get enough of and very expensive. Chatbots are computer programs developed to engage in conversations with humans. They are designed as software avatars…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Jasna Petrovic , Mladjan Jovanovic

The conversational nature of chatbots poses challenges to designers since their development is different from other software and requires investigating new practices in the context of human-AI interaction and their impact on user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Geovana Ramos Sousa Silva , Edna Dias Canedo

As AI chatbots shift from tools to companions, critical questions arise: who controls the conversation in human-AI chatrooms? This paper explores perceived human and AI agency in sustained conversation. We report a month-long longitudinal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Bhada Yun , Evgenia Taranova , April Yi Wang

We study how bots contribute to open-source discussions in the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they influence developers' emotional tone. Our dataset covers 36,875 accounts across ten repositories with 105 validated bots (0.28%). Human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Matteo Vaccargiu , Riccardo Lai , Maria Ilaria Lunesu , Andrea Pinna , Giuseppe Destefanis

Recently, the concept of embodied intelligence has been widely accepted and popularized, leading people to naturally consider the potential for commercialization in this field. In this work, we propose a specific commercial scenario…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Zhuoqun Xu , Yang Liu , Xiaoqi Li , Jiyao Zhang , Hao Dong

Persona can function as the prior knowledge for maintaining the consistency of dialogue systems. Most of previous studies adopted the self persona in dialogue whose response was about to be selected from a set of candidates or directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jia-Chen Gu , Hui Liu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Quan Liu , Zhigang Chen , Xiaodan Zhu

Chatbots' role in fostering self-reflection is now widely recognized, especially in inducing users' behavior change. While the benefits of 24/7 availability, scalability, and consistent responses have been demonstrated in contexts such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Riku Arakawa , Hiromu Yakura

Chatbot is a technology that is used to mimic human behavior using natural language. There are different types of Chatbot that can be used as conversational agent in various business domains in order to increase the customer service and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Nazakat Ali

Individuals are turning to increasingly anthropomorphic, general-purpose chatbots for AI companionship, rather than roleplay-specific platforms. However, not much is known about how individuals perceive and conduct their relationships with…

The ubiquitous nature of chatbots and their interaction with users generate an enormous amount of data. Can we improve chatbots using this data? A self-feeding chatbot improves itself by asking natural language feedback when a user is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar , Kun Ni , Siva Reddy

Call centers, in which human operators attend clients using textual chat, are very common in modern e-commerce. Training enough skilled operators who are able to provide good service is a challenge. We suggest an algorithm and a method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Aviram Aviv , Yaniv Oshrat , Samuel A. Assefa , Tobi Mustapha , Daniel Borrajo , Manuela Veloso , Sarit Kraus

Chatbot is a machine with the ability to answer automatically through a conversational interface. A chatbot is considered as one of the most exceptional and promising expressions of human computer interaction. Voice-based chatbots or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Sagina Athikkal , John Jenq

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various information-seeking and reasoning tasks. These computational systems drive state-of-the-art dialogue systems, such as ChatGPT and Bard. They also carry…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Siyuan Brandon Loh , Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar

Since the advent of chatbots in the commercial sector, they have been widely employed in the customer service department. Typically, these commercial chatbots are retrieval-based, so they are unable to respond to queries absent in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Safa Zaid , Aswah Malik , Kisa Fatima