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Lu, Dongxu (author)
Child helplines play a crucial role in delivering expert assistance to young clients facing challenges and seeking support. While counselling is instrumental in enhancing children’s mental well-being, the limited number of experienced counsellors is inadequate given the substantial workload. At this point, effective training to volunteer...
master thesis 2023
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Makarov, Vlad (author)
The aim of this research is to evaluate the believability of Lilobot, a conversational agent meant to act as a virtual child for training helpline workers. Numerous aspects of believability are explored by means of a user study involving a questionnaire and interview with 10 participants. Questionnaire results indicate that improvement to the...
bachelor thesis 2023
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Ntasi, Nikola (author)
Chatbots are tools that can potentially be utilized in chat-based child helpline training. In this type of training, the quality of the feedback received is of vital importance. This paper aims to analyze the automated feedback generated by such a chatbot. The domains analyzed include user comprehension, usefulness, and potential improvement...
bachelor thesis 2023
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Xu, Ke (author)
The problem of assisting users in comprehending the robotic scenario information in a retail setting has been studied. To design the system, an integrated ontology composed of several IEEE standard ontologies and a labelled property graph (LPG)-based ontology modified from the Web Ontology Language (OWL)-based ontology was proposed to symbolize...
master thesis 2023
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van Dis, Martijn (author)
This research focuses on the effects of the socio-technical boundary conditions on the success of chatbot implementation in organizations. To do so, different actor perspectives on "successful implementation" are explored and 33 boundary conditions are proposed. The findings suggest that satisfying the boundary conditions has a positive effect...
master thesis 2022
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Dechering, Jaap (author)
As guided interventions are seen as more effective compared to unguided interventions and because the use of eHealth applications is rising over the years, the need to study the effects of a virtual coach as a substitute for guided interventions was created. A virtual coach does not cost as much time and money as a real coach and would thus be...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Eijkelkamp, Charlotte (author)
A decrease in wellbeing worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic called for ways to assess wellbeing in a scalable and adequate manner. Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) seem suitable, however, applying them optimally in certain contexts remains a challenge. This study aims to find ways to make CUIs more engaging and have a better experience...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Kapadia, Mihir (author)
Emotion Recognition is one of the vastly studied areas of affective computing. Attempts have been made to design emotion recognition systems for everyday settings. The ubiquitous nature of Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) in households, make them a great anchor for the introduction of emotion recognition technology to consumers. The existing...
master thesis 2022
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Grundmann, Sharon (author)
Around the world, child helplines through their services provide a safe and confidential space for children to be heard and empowered. The Dutch Kindertelefoon is one of such helplines providing counselling services to children via call and chat all year round. In this thesis, we explore the design of a conversational agent for training...
master thesis 2022
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Jansen, Jesse (author)
Conversational agents are being used more often. Many conversational agents have been designed to make them more humanlike to increase the engagement of the user. This research is looking into a couple of aspects of anthropomorphism to determine whether these aspects improve the engagement of the users. These aspects are typos with time delay...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Zlatkutė, Emilija (author)
With the increase of anthropomorphic conversational agents, the research on the effects of anthropomorphism in conversational agents is on the rise. However the studies cannot seem to agree on many of the raised questions and the research on the proper design of conversational agents is still lacking. This research paper attempted to contribute...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Lerer, Bar (author)
This study aims to examine the effect of dynamically aligning the conversation style to the user’s preference in a conversational agent environment. We suggest a technique to identify the user’s preferred conversation style, by scoring statements based on their writing style. We designed a within-subject experiment intended to measure the user...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Joshi, Ayush (author)
Supply chains are vital to the global economy, and so, increasing efficiency in supply chain management is of utmost importance. Modernizing technology has allowed for various uses of machine learning to be possible in several aspects of supply chains, specifically in demand forecasting with prediction models, and customer relations with chat...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Ciovati, Andrea (author)
Chatbots have been considered as one of the leading technologies in the e-commerce domain as virtual shopping assistants able to guide customers throughout the entire shopping experience automatically. However, this technology is currently registering a high failure rate, and several users are still skeptical of its effectiveness. One of the...
master thesis 2020
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Mazza, Maria Chiara (author)
Anxiety is one of the most widespread and dangerous mental health disorders in developed and underdeveoped countries, affecting a wide number of college students all over the world. If not correctly treated in time, it might procure irreparable damages in people’s life, leading to drastic consequenses such as depression and suicidal intentions....
master thesis 2020
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Al Owayyed, Mohammed (author)
PhD students are usually more susceptible than other people to depression-inducing situations, which are not adequately addressed in eHealth systems. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well-established depression treatment, and one of its therapeutic methods is to change negative thought patterns into positive ones. The new positive...
master thesis 2020
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Thuraka, Neha (author)
Crowdsensing is a powerful tool to easily sense diverse physical environments by collecting data from an undefined network of people. With advancements in smartphone technology, there has been an increase in the use of mobile applications to perform crowdsensing tasks. However, previous work shows that mobile applications have issues with...
master thesis 2019
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Enreina Annisa Rizkiasri, Enreina (author)
Knowledge Base Construction (KBC) is a challenging and complex task involving several substeps and many experts of a knowledge domain. Crowdsourcing approach has been used to support KBC with promising scalability and output quality, but to enable even more people to participate in KBC, there is a need to broaden the pool of workers beyond the...
master thesis 2019
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Harianto, Stephen (author)
The ever-increasing competition has led firms to higher adoption rate of technology to drive business efficiency and operation. One of the disruptive technologies of this century is Artificial Intelligence (AI), with virtual agents as one of its application. To get the maximum value of virtual agents, businesses attempt to personalize their...
master thesis 2018
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Bapat, Rucha (author)
Chatbots are the text based conversational agents with which users interact in natural language. They are becoming more and more popular with the immense growth in messaging apps and tools to develop text based conversational agents. Despite of advances in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, chatbots still struggle in...
master thesis 2017
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