News about the publications made in journals and/or conferences by the members of our group.
Our demo paper on our open-source hybrid conversational agent development framework software is accepted to be published in the proceedings of the 5th iteration of the ACM conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI). The publication also gained a spot in the conference for a demo presentation, which is going to take place between 19-21 July…
Our systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness and acceptability of chatbots for smoking cessation was published at Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Check the abstract below and the full text here: https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntac281/6888111 Introduction Conversational agents (computer programs that use artificial intelligence to simulate a conversation with users through natural language) have evolved considerably in recent…
Our systematic review paper on the effectiveness and acceptability of conversational agents for sexual health promotion is published at Sexual Health. Check the full text here: https://www.publish.csiro.au/sh/SH22016. The paper Balaji, D., He, L., Giani, S., Bosse, T., Wiers, R., & de Bruijn, G. J. (2022). Effectiveness and acceptability of conversational agents for sexual health promotion:…
Our paper on the effectiveness of motivational interviewing-based chatbot is published at BMC Public Health. Long story short: we found that talking with a chatbot about smoking cessation during the initial contact increased people’s motivation to quit, even though no extra motivational effect was found for the motivational interviewing-styled counselling. This shows that chatbots do…
Our position paper on the usage of open-domain large language models for chatbots in highly sensitive domains is accepted to be published in the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART). The publication also gained a spot in the conference for a poster presentation, which is going to take place…
