arXiv:2606. 16481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Art therapy plays a vital role in emotional healing, in which narrative creation acts as the primary vehicle for emotional expression.
By Suqing Wang, Qinghai Miao, Chao Guo, Yisheng Lv
arXiv:2606. 09837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotional interaction is increasingly crucial for conversational AI, yet current systems lack a self-emotion determination mechanism to drive the streaming text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis.
By Yue Zhao, Hongyan Li, Yong Chen, Luo Ji
arXiv:2606. 18259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents that plan, retain memory across sessions, invoke external tools and act with partial autonomy are transforming human--AI collaboration.
By Junjie Xu, Xingjiao Wu, Zihao Zhang, Yujia Xu, Yuzhe Yang, Jin Zhu, Luwei Xiao, Wen Wu, Liang He
arXiv:2607. 07824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially advanced persona-based dialogue agents for emotion-sensitive role simulation in healthcare, education, counseling, customer service, and interactive storytelling.
By Jingyao Cai, Shuaijun Liu, Abdul Rehman, Yutong Guo, Qin Tian, Thomas Dolby, Sue Green, Chantel Cox, Xiaosong Yang
arXiv:2606. 05411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivational architectures in cognitive AI have largely been designed for physical agents regulating bodily needs.
By Anna Mikeda, Ben Goertzel
arXiv:2507. 03670v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Writing longer prompts for an AI assistant to generate a story increases psychological ownership, a user's feeling that the writing belongs to them.
By Nikhita Joshi, Daniel Vogel
arXiv:2504. 11837v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate people's emotional distress through effective conversations.
By Yue Zhao, Qingqing Gu, Xiaoyu Wang, Teng Chen, Zhonglin Jiang, Yong Chen, Hongyan Li, Luo Ji
arXiv:2606. 17767v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personal health data from wearables are typically presented through dashboards of charts and summary statistics, requiring users to actively interpret patterns and implications.
By Nikola Kovacevic, Bastien Husler, Di Zhuang, Rafael Wampfler, Barbara Solenthaler
arXiv:2607. 28648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for emotional support tasks, such as negative thought reframing.
By Hainiu Xu, Zhaoyue Sun, Hanqi Yan, Jinhua Du, Caroline Catmur, Yulan He
arXiv:2607. 02245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental health disorders affect nearly one billion people globally, yet 75% of individuals in low- and middle-income countries receive no treatment due to workforce shortages, cost barriers, and stigma.
By Seren Yenikent, Jack Vinijtrongjit, Katherine Ng
Emotional dialogue research includes two influential strategy traditions. Empathetic dialogue prioritizes understanding a speaker's emotional experience.
arXiv:2607. 10678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional intelligence enables humans to recognize emotions, infer their causes, reason about interventions, and modify their environment to achieve desired affective states.
By Qing Lin, Mengmi Zhang