A multilingual virtual guide for self-attachment technique
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Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
In this work, we propose a computational framework that leverages existing out-of-language data to create a conversational agent for the delivery of self-attachment technique in Mandarin. Our framework does not require large-scale human translations, yet it achieves a comparable performance whilst also maintaining safety and reliability. We propose two different methods of augmenting available response data through empathetic rewriting. We evaluate our chatbot against a previous, English-only SAT chatbot through non-clinical human trials (N=42), each lasting five days, and quantitatively show that we are able to attain a comparable level of performance to the English SAT chatbot. We provide qualitative analysis on the limitations of our study and suggestions with the aim of guiding future improvements.
Date Issued
2023-03-13
Date Acceptance
2022-11-10
Citation
2023, pp.107-116
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
107
End Page
116
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
http://humandevelopment.doc.ic.ac.uk/
Source
2022 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence CogMI 2022
Subjects
chatbots
digital psychotherapy
Mandarin
self-attachment
Place of Publication
Online
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2022-12-14
Finish Date
2022-12-16
Coverage Spatial
Atlanta, GA, USA (Virtual)