Publication and Poster at HCLLM at ACL2024 August 15, 2024 Our paper “To What Extent Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Substantial Reflections for Motivational Interviewing Counseling Chatbots? A…
Publication at Journal for Medical Internet Research August 6, 2024 Our paper “Effectiveness and user experience of a smoking cessation chatbot: A mixed-methods study comparing motivational interviewing and confrontational counseling.”…
Publication and Presentation at CUI 2024 July 8, 2024 Our paper “Designing a Couples-Based Conversational Agent to Promote Safe Sex in New, Young Couples: A User-Centred Design Approach.” is…
Publication and Presentation at CUI 2024 July 8, 2024 Our paper “Exploring User Engagement Through an Interaction Lens: What Textual Cues Can Tell Us about Human-Chatbot Interactions” is accepted…
Presentation at RadboudUMC Research Strategy Day June 26, 2024 We delivered a talk at this year’s Research Strategy Day, organized by Radboud University Medical Center. Our talk addressed the…
Poster at NLG in Lowlands 2024 June 12, 2024 We are invited to this year’s Natural Language Generation in Lowlands workshop to present a poster on the results of…
Demo at Smooth Operators Festival May 31, 2024 We are invited to demonstrate our hybrid smoking cessation (Roby) and sexual health promotion (MISH) conversational agents at the Smooth…
Poster at CLIN33 September 22, 2023 In the 33rd meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, we are going to present our gained insights and preliminary…
Publication and Demo at CUI 2023 July 19, 2023 Our demo paper “HyLECA: A Framework for Developing Hybrid Long-term Engaging Controlled Conversational Agents” is accepted to be published in…
Presentation at ICA 2023 May 25, 2023 This year, we’ll be presenting our preliminary work on the MISH (Motivational Interviewing for Sexual Health) chatbot at the 73rd…
Presentation at Etmaal 2023 February 2, 2023 At this year’s 25th Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap conference being held in Enschede (Netherlands), we’re going to present our preliminary…
Publication at Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal December 12, 2022 Our systematic review and meta-analysis paper “Effectiveness and Acceptability of Conversational Agents for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”…
Publication and Presentation at Conversations 2022 November 22, 2022 In the 6th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, Applications and Design held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we present a paper…
Publication at Sexual Health Journal July 22, 2022 Our systematic review paper “Effectiveness and acceptability of conversational agents for sexual health promotion: a systematic review and meta-analysis” is…
Poster at CLIN32 June 17, 2022 In this year’s meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, we are going to introduce our project to the computational…
Presentation at ARPH2022 June 16, 2022 In the 11th iteration of the Association for Researchers in Psychology and Health meeting, we are going to present our…
Presentation at NLG in Lowlands 2022 June 7, 2022 We are invited to the Natural Language Generation in Lowlands workshop this year to give a presentation on our work…
Publication at BMC Public Health Journal April 12, 2022 Our paper “Can chatbots help to motivate smoking cessation? A study on the effectiveness of motivational interviewing on engagement and…
Publication and Poster at ICAART 2022 February 3, 2022 Our position paper “Hints of Independence in a Pre-scripted World: On Controlled Usage of Open-domain Language Models for Chatbots in…
Presentation at ECHC 2021 November 4, 2021 We are presenting our systematic review on conversational agents for sexual health promotion at the 2021 edition of the European…
Organizing PICA 2021 June 25, 2021 We are organizing the Personalized Intelligent Conversational Agents (PICA) workshop in collaboration with an international group of researchers. The workshop…
Presentation at Etmaal 2021 February 4, 2021 Our team is going to present the Look Who’s Talking project first time to the public at this year’s Etmaal…
Our paper “To What Extent Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Substantial Reflections for Motivational Interviewing Counseling Chatbots? A…
Our paper “Effectiveness and user experience of a smoking cessation chatbot: A mixed-methods study comparing motivational interviewing and confrontational counseling.”…
Our paper “Designing a Couples-Based Conversational Agent to Promote Safe Sex in New, Young Couples: A User-Centred Design Approach.” is…
We delivered a talk at this year’s Research Strategy Day, organized by Radboud University Medical Center. Our talk addressed the…
We are invited to this year’s Natural Language Generation in Lowlands workshop to present a poster on the results of…
We are invited to demonstrate our hybrid smoking cessation (Roby) and sexual health promotion (MISH) conversational agents at the Smooth…
In the 33rd meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, we are going to present our gained insights and preliminary…
Our demo paper “HyLECA: A Framework for Developing Hybrid Long-term Engaging Controlled Conversational Agents” is accepted to be published in…
This year, we’ll be presenting our preliminary work on the MISH (Motivational Interviewing for Sexual Health) chatbot at the 73rd…
At this year’s 25th Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap conference being held in Enschede (Netherlands), we’re going to present our preliminary…
Our systematic review and meta-analysis paper “Effectiveness and Acceptability of Conversational Agents for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”…
In the 6th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, Applications and Design held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we present a paper…
Our systematic review paper “Effectiveness and acceptability of conversational agents for sexual health promotion: a systematic review and meta-analysis” is…
In this year’s meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, we are going to introduce our project to the computational…
In the 11th iteration of the Association for Researchers in Psychology and Health meeting, we are going to present our…
We are invited to the Natural Language Generation in Lowlands workshop this year to give a presentation on our work…
Our paper “Can chatbots help to motivate smoking cessation? A study on the effectiveness of motivational interviewing on engagement and…
Our position paper “Hints of Independence in a Pre-scripted World: On Controlled Usage of Open-domain Language Models for Chatbots in…
We are presenting our systematic review on conversational agents for sexual health promotion at the 2021 edition of the European…
We are organizing the Personalized Intelligent Conversational Agents (PICA) workshop in collaboration with an international group of researchers. The workshop…
Our team is going to present the Look Who’s Talking project first time to the public at this year’s Etmaal…