Conversational agents in therapeutic interventions for neurodevelopmental disorders: a survey

F Catania, M Spitale, F Garzotto - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD) are a group of conditions with onset in the
developmental period characterized by deficits in the cognitive and social areas …

Review of artificial intelligence‐based question‐answering systems in healthcare

LC Budler, L Gosak, G Stiglic - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Use of conversational agents, like chatbots, avatars, and robots is increasing worldwide. Yet,
their effectiveness in health care is largely unknown. The aim of this advanced review was to …

The rise and potential of large language model based agents: A survey

Z Xi, W Chen, X Guo, W He, Y Ding, B Hong… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
For a long time, humanity has pursued artificial intelligence (AI) equivalent to or surpassing
the human level, with AI agents considered a promising vehicle for this pursuit. AI agents are …

It is me, chatbot: working to address the COVID-19 outbreak-related mental health issues in China. User experience, satisfaction, and influencing factors

Y Zhu, M Janssen, R Wang, Y Liu - International Journal of Human …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The global spread of COVID-19 has caused a huge number of confirmed cases and deaths,
which in return leads to a plethora of mental disorders across the world. In order to address …

The AI doctor is in: A survey of task-oriented dialogue systems for healthcare applications

M Valizadeh, N Parde - Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Task-oriented dialogue systems are increasingly prevalent in healthcare settings, and have
been characterized by a diverse range of architectures and objectives. Although these …

The last decade of HCI research on children and voice-based conversational agents

R Garg, H Cui, S Seligson, B Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Voice-based Conversational Agents (CAs) are increasingly being used by children. Through
a review of 38 research papers, this work maps trends, themes, and methods of empirical …

Conversational bots for psychotherapy: a study of generative transformer models using domain-specific dialogues

A Das, S Selek, AR Warner, X Zuo, Y Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Conversational bots have become non-traditional methods for therapy among individuals
suffering from psychological illnesses. Leveraging deep neural generative language …

Valid: a perceptually validated virtual avatar library for inclusion and diversity

TD Do, S Zelenty, M Gonzalez-Franco… - Frontiers in Virtual …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
As consumer adoption of immersive technologies grows, virtual avatars will play a prominent
role in the future of social computing. However, as people begin to interact more frequently …

Conversational agents: Theory and applications

M Wahde, M Virgolin - … Volume 2: Deep Learning, Intelligent Control …, 2022 - World Scientific
In this chapter, we provide a review of conversational agents (CAs), discussing chatbots,
intended for casual conversation with a user, as well as task-oriented agents that generally …

Dialogue agents for artificial intelligence-based conversational systems for cognitively disabled: A systematic review

SM Huq, R Maskeliūnas… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose We present a systematic literature review of dialogue agents for Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and agent-based conversational systems dealing with cognitive disability of …