Tag: Conversational Agent

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A Conversational Agent as a Superhero

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a web app to help children develop skills such as self-awareness and emotional management. They have published their findings in their paper “Self-Talk with Superhero Zip: Supporting Children’s Socioemotional Learning with Conversational Agents”. From the abstract: “Here, we examine whether children can learn to use a socioemotional strategy known as ‘self-talk’ from a conversational agent (CA). To investigate this question, we designed and built ‘Self-Talk with Superhero Zip,’ an interactive CA experience, and deployed it for one week in ten family homes to pairs of siblings between the ages of five and ten … We found that children could recall and accurately describe the lessons taught by the intervention, and we saw indications of children applying self-talk in daily life.” (Fu et al. 2023) The paper can be downloaded at dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3585088.3589376 (Image: DALL-E 3).

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CONVERSATIONS 2023 in Oslo

The CONVERSATIONS 2023, a two-day workshop on chatbot research, applications, and design, will take place at the University of Oslo, Norway. According to the CfP, contributions concerning applications of large language models such as the GPT family are warmly welcome, as are contributions on applications combining information retrieval approaches and large language model approaches. Building on the results from previous six CONVERSATIONS workshops, the following topics are of particular interest: 1. Chatbot users and implications, 2. Chatbot user experience, design, and evaluation, 3. Chatbot frameworks and platforms, 4. Chatbots for collaboration, 5. Democratizing chatbots – chatbots for all, 6. Ethics and safety implications of chatbots and large language models, 7. Leveraging advances in AI technology and large language models. More information via 2023.conversations.ws.