Title
Perceptions of Chatbots in Therapy.
Abstract
Several studies have investigated the clinical efficacy of remote-, internet- and chatbot-based therapy, but there are other factors, such as enjoyment and smoothness, that are important in a good therapy session. We piloted a comparative study of therapy sessions following the interaction of 10 participants with human therapists versus a chatbot (simulated using a Wizard of Oz protocol), finding evidence to suggest that when compared against a human therapist control, participants find chatbot-provided therapy less useful, less enjoyable, and their conversations less smooth (a key dimension of a positively-regarded therapy session). Our findings suggest that research into chatbots for cognitive behavioural therapy would be more effective when directly addressing these drawbacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290607.3313072
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
chatbots, cognitive behavioural therapy, natural language processing, wizard of oz
Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Chatbot,Cognition,Perception,Wizard of oz,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5971-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Bell100.68
Clara Wood200.34
advait sarkar327.83