This year’s NLG in the Lowlands workshop was organized by the Tilburg University with efforts from two of our project members, Emiel Krahmer and Erkan Basar,…Continue readingOrganizing NLG in the Lowlands 2025
We were invited to this year’s Smooth Operators Festival, where we had the opportunity to share our insights and experiences on leveraging large language models in…Continue readingPresentation at Smooth Operators Festival 2025
We are pleased to announce that Linwei He, one of the PhD candidates within our project, has successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “Chats for Change:…Continue readingPhD Defense by Linwei He
We organized the Workshop on Chatbots and Health, bringing together a group of expert speakers to offer a series of presentations and discussions on the recent…Continue readingOrganizing Chatbots and Health Workshop
Our paper “Chatting your way to quitting: A longitudinal exploration of smokers’ interaction with a cessation chatbot” is accepted to be published at Internet Interventions Journal.…Continue readingPublication at Internet Interventions Journal
We presented an overview of our project, in the form of a poster, at this year’s Radboud AI Event: Collaboration for Sustainable Growth, highlighting our team’s…Continue readingPoster at Radboud AI Event 2025
At this year’s Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, we were delighted to share insights from two of our latest research projects. Our first presentation shared findings from…Continue readingTwo Presentations at Etmaal 2025
Our findings on the question “How well can LLMs reflect?” through a combination of extensive human evaluations and experimentation with various prompting strategies, has been published…Continue readingPublication and Presentation at COLING 2025
We organized the Engaging Long-Term Interactions with Chatbots for Health symposium where we shared our progress and outcomes achieved over the past four years within our…Continue readingOrganizing Chatbots for Health Symposium
We had the opportunity to present and participate in a panel discussion at BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2024, where we tackled topics surrounding the recent developments in the field…Continue readingPresentation at BNAIC 2024
Our paper “To What Extent Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Substantial Reflections for Motivational Interviewing Counseling Chatbots? A Human Evaluation” is accepted to be…Continue readingPublication and Poster at HCLLM at ACL 2024
Our paper “Effectiveness and user experience of a smoking cessation chatbot: A mixed-methods study comparing motivational interviewing and confrontational counseling.” is accepted to be published at…Continue readingPublication at Journal for Medical Internet Research
Our paper “Designing a Couples-Based Conversational Agent to Promote Safe Sex in New, Young Couples: A User-Centred Design Approach.” is accepted to be published in the…Continue readingPublication and Presentation at CUI 2024
Our paper “Exploring User Engagement Through an Interaction Lens: What Textual Cues Can Tell Us about Human-Chatbot Interactions” is accepted to be published in the proceedings…Continue readingPublication and Presentation at CUI 2024
We delivered a talk at this year’s Research Strategy Day, organized by Radboud University Medical Center. Our talk addressed the significant impact of recent advancements in…Continue readingPresentation at RadboudUMC Research Strategy Day
We were invited to this year’s Natural Language Generation in the Lowlands workshop to present a poster on the results of our latest study on human…Continue readingPoster at NLG in the Lowlands 2024
We are invited to demonstrate our hybrid smoking cessation (Roby) and sexual health promotion (MISH) conversational agents at the Smooth Operators Festival held on May 31…Continue readingDemo at Smooth Operators Festival
In the 33rd meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, we are going to present our gained insights and preliminary findings on the evaluation and usage…Continue readingPoster at CLIN33
Our demo paper “HyLECA: A Framework for Developing Hybrid Long-term Engaging Controlled Conversational Agents” is accepted to be published in the proceedings of the 5th iteration…Continue readingPublication and Demo at CUI 2023
This year, we’ll be presenting our preliminary work on the MISH (Motivational Interviewing for Sexual Health) chatbot at the 73rd International Communication Association (ICA) conference, which…Continue readingPresentation at ICA 2023
At this year’s 25th Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap conference being held in Enschede (Netherlands), we’re going to present our preliminary work on the MISH (Motivational Interviewing…Continue readingPresentation at Etmaal 2023
Our systematic review and meta-analysis paper “Effectiveness and Acceptability of Conversational Agents for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis” is published at Nicotine & Tobacco…Continue readingPublication at Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal
In the 6th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, Applications and Design held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we present a paper in collaboration with our former student…Continue readingPublication and Presentation at Conversations 2022
Our systematic review paper “Effectiveness and acceptability of conversational agents for sexual health promotion: a systematic review and meta-analysis” is published at Sexual Health journal. Read…Continue readingPublication at Sexual Health Journal
In this year’s meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, we are going to introduce our project to the computational linguistics community as a poster presentation.…Continue readingPoster at CLIN32