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Required Readings

  1. David DeVault, Ron Artstein, Grace Benn, Teresa Dey, Ed Fast, Alesia Gainer, Kallirroi Georgila, Jon Gratch, Arno Hartholt, Margaux Lhommet, Gale Lucas, Stacy Marsella, Fabrizio Morbini, Angela Nazarian, Stefan Scherer, Giota Stratou, Apar Suri, David Traum, Rachel Wood, Yuyu Xu, Albert Rizzo, and Louis-Philippe Morency. SimSensei kiosk: A virtual human interviewer for healthcare Decision Support. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014), pages 1061–1068, Paris, May 2014.
  2. Vaidyam AN, Wisniewski H, Halamka JD, Kashavan MS, Torous JB. Chatbots and Conversational Agents in Mental Health: A Review of the Psychiatric Landscape. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2019;64(7):456-464.

Other Readings
  1. Siqi Shen, Charles Welch, Rada Mihalcea, and Verónica Pérez-Rosas. 2020. Counseling-Style Reflection Generation Using Generative Pretrained Transformers with Augmented Context. In Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 10–20, 1st virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  2. Izumi, K., Tanaka, H., Shidara, K., Adachi, H., Kanayama, D., Kudo, T., & Nakamura, S. (2024). < ahref="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.15966">Response Generation for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Large Language Models: Comparative Study with Socratic Questioning. IWSDS 2024.
  3. Huachuan Qiu, Anqi Li, Lizhi Ma, Zhenzhong Lan PsyChat: A Client-Centric Dialogue System for Mental Health Support CSCWD 2024 (27th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design)