Title
Towards Emotion-Sensitive Conversational User Interfaces in Healthcare Applications.
Abstract
Perception of emotions and adequate responses are keyfactors of a successful conversational agent. However, determining emotions in a healthcare setting depends on multiple factors such as context and medical condition. Given the increase of interest in conversational agents integrated in mobile health applications, our objective in this work is to introduce a concept for analyzing emotions and sentiments expressed by a person in a mobile health application with a conversational user interface. The approach bases upon bot technology (Synthetic intelligence markup language) and deep learning for emotion analysis. More specifically, expressions referring to sentiments or emotions are classified along seven categories and three stages of strengths using treebank annotation and recursive neural networks. The classification result is used by the chatbot for selecting an appropriate response. In this way, the concerns of a user can be better addressed. We describe three use cases where the approach could be integrated to make the chatbot emotion-sensitive.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3233/SHTI190409
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Conversational user interface,sentiment analysis,deep learning,natural language processing
Computer science,Human–computer interaction,User interface
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
264
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kerstin Denecke114023.57
Richard May200.34
Yihan Deng312.12