Published on in Vol 20, No 6 (2018): June

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/10148, first published .
Towards an Artificially Empathic Conversational Agent for Mental Health Applications: System Design and User Perceptions

Towards an Artificially Empathic Conversational Agent for Mental Health Applications: System Design and User Perceptions

Towards an Artificially Empathic Conversational Agent for Mental Health Applications: System Design and User Perceptions

Robert R Morris   1 , PhD ;   Kareem Kouddous   1 , MSc ;   Rohan Kshirsagar   1, 2 , BS ;   Stephen M Schueller   3 , PhD

1 Koko, New York, NY, United States

2 Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

3 Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

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