Empathic conversational agents for real-time monitoring and co-facilitation of patient-centered healthcare

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Toward truly personal chatbots

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Can online support groups address psychological morbidity of cancer patients? An artificial intelligence based investigation of prostate cancer trajectories

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A Cognitive Model for Emotion Awareness in Industrial Chatbots

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Understanding Citizens’ Emotional Pulse in a Smart City Using Artificial Intelligence

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The Patient-Reported Information Multidimensional Exploration (PRIME) framework for investigating emotions and other factors of prostate cancer patients with low intermediate risk based on online cancer support group discussions

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On the construction of more human-like chatbots: Affect and emotion analysis of movie dialogue data

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CAiRE: An End-to-End Empathetic Chatbot

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Homogeneous Markov Chain for Modeling Emotional Interactions

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Evaluating Empathetic Chatbots in Customer Service SettingsPreprint

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What is Human-Centered about Human-Centered AI? A Map of the Research Landscape

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A Mental Health Chatbot with Cognitive Skills for Personalised Behavioural Activation and Remote Health Monitoring

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Emotionally Intelligent Chatbots: A Systematic Literature Review

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Novel therapeutic agents in clinical trials: emerging approaches in cancer therapy

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Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Chatbots in Mental Health: A Systematic Review

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ChatGPT and Generative AI Guidelines for Addressing Academic Integrity and Augmenting Pre-Existing Chatbots

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Expanding AI’s Role in Healthcare Applications: A Systematic Review of Emotional and Cognitive Analysis Techniques

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A generative pre-trained transformer industrial bot to improve operators’ working experience in a small Industry 5.0 factory

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Medicine's New Rhythm: Harnessing Acoustic Sensing via the Internet of Audio Things for Healthcare

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Addressing the Productivity Paradox in Healthcare with Retrieval Augmented Generative AI Chatbots

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Development of Virtual Reality SBIRT Skill Training with Conversational AI in Nursing Education

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What Drives Patient Preferences for AI Chatbots Over Doctors? A Survey Study Using the O-S-O-R Model

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Context-aware chatbot for personal healthcare assistance using LLMs and LangChain

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The impact of AI-driven sentiment analysis on patient outcomes in psychiatric care: A narrative review

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A Survey on Multi-User Conversational Interfaces

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Preferences for Telephone Cancer Information and Support in People with Cancer and Carers: Attribute and Level Selection for a Discrete Choice Experiment

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