Tilburg University

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Enhancing Children's Self-Reporting in Chatbot Diaries through Rhyming Style

Existing children’s self-reporting tools like surveys and diaries often feel restrictive, leading to disengagement and low-quality responses. LLM-powered chatbots can adapt with simplified wording or empathetic tone, but such adaptations remain insufficient: responses may be adult-centered, complex, or formulaic, unde…

CHI '26Voice User Interface (VUI) Design +2

Enhancing Response Quality by Children in Voice-based Sleep Diaries via AI-based Continuous Feedback

Digital sleep diaries are widely used to monitor children’s sleep, yet response quality is often low because children may not know how, or be motivated, to give detailed answers. We investigate how “live,” continuous feedback in voice-based sleep diaries can support higher-quality responses. In a co-design workshop, w…

CHI '26Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Neither Tool nor Collaborator: Rethinking Human–AI Co-Creativity in Artistic Practice with Material Engagement Theory

Human–AI co-creativity is often understood through a tool-use or collaboration frame, obscuring the relational dynamics of artistic practice with machine learning (ML) systems. To advance the field, we recast such artistic practice through Material Engagement Theory (MET), emphasizing how creative and aesthetic proces…

CSCW '25Facilitating Support and Belonging

Script-Strategy Aligned Generation: Aligning LLMs with Expert-Crafted Dialogue Scripts and Therapeutic Strategies for Psychotherapy

Chatbots or conversational agents (CAs) are increasingly used to improve access to digital psychotherapy. Many current systems rely on rigid, rule-based designs, heavily dependent on expert-crafted dialogue scripts for guiding therapeutic conversations. Although advances in large language models (LLMs) offer potential…

CUI '24Conversational Chatbots +2

Exploring User Engagement Through an Interaction Lens: What Textual Cues Can Tell Us about Human-Chatbot Interactions

Monitoring and maintaining user engagement in human-chatbot interactions is challenging. Researchers often use cues observed in the interactions as indicators to infer engagement. However, evaluation of these cues is lacking. In this study, we collected an inventory of potential textual engagements cues from the liter…

HRI '23Social Robot Interaction +2

Models of (Often) Ambivalent Robot Stereotypes: Content, Structure, and Predictors of Robots' Age and Gender Stereotypes

This study focused on investigating the content, structure, and predictors of robots' stereotypes. We involved 120 participants in an online study and asked them to rate 80 robots on communion, agency, suitability for female and suitability for male tasks. In line with the stereotype content model, we discovered that…

CHI '23Honorable MentionPrivacy by Design & User Control +1

Online Proctoring: Privacy Invasion or Study Alleviation? Discovering Acceptability Using Contextual Integrity

Detecting fraud during online exams using proctoring software comes with substantial privacy challenges. Previous work argues students experience heightened anxiety and have privacy concerns. However, little is known about which specific aspects of online proctoring cause these concerns. This study contributes such in…

CHI '22Elderly Care & Dementia Support +1

LivingMoments: Bespoke Social Communication for People living with Dementia and their Relatives

Dementia can hinder a person's ability to engage with their relatives. Existing communication technologies do not support people with dementia in maintaining social contact since they are not designed for their abilities and needs. This paper presents LivingMoments, a communication system that enables the engagement o…

CHI '22Elderly Care & Dementia Support +1

Designing for Everyday Sounds at Home with People with Dementia and their Partners

People with dementia and their caregivers aging in place have expressed the need for social, emotional, and recreational interventions at home. Listening to everyday sounds evokes memories and provides conversational cues to support social relations and elicit emotional responses for people with dementia. However, res…

HRI '20Collaborative Learning & Peer Teaching +1

Using Self-Determination Theory in Social Robots to Increase Motivation in L2 Word Learning

This study presents a second language word learning experiment using a social robot with motivational strategies. These strategies were implemented in a social robot tutor to stimulate preschool children’s intrinsic motivation. Subsequently, we investigated their effect on children’s task engagement and word learning…

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Health, Healthcare & Wellbeing

Elderly Care & Dementia Support

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Child-Computer Interaction Design

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Voice User Interface (VUI) Design