Our paper “Autonomy-supporting chatbots: Endorsing volitional behavior change” is published at Ethics and Information Technology journal. Read the paper at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-025-09877-8 Title Autonomy-supporting chatbots: Endorsing volitional…Continue readingPublication at Ethics and Information Technology
Category: Publications
News about the publications made in journals and conferences by the members of our group.
Our project has been featured in an article in NRC, a national newspaper from the Netherlands. In this interview, we had the opportunity to share our…Continue readingInterview with NRC
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
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
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
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
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
Our paper “Can chatbots help to motivate smoking cessation? A study on the effectiveness of motivational interviewing on engagement and therapeutic alliance” is published at BMC…Continue readingPublication at BMC Public Health Journal
Our position paper “Hints of Independence in a Pre-scripted World: On Controlled Usage of Open-domain Language Models for Chatbots in Highly Sensitive Domains” is accepted to…Continue readingPublication and Poster at ICAART 2022
We are organizing the Personalized Intelligent Conversational Agents (PICA) workshop in collaboration with an international group of researchers. The workshop is co-located with the ACM Conference…Continue readingOrganizing PICA 2021