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Empath: Tracing Multi-Level Emotion Dynamics in Crisis Counseling Dialogues

arXiv AI
Sep 7

Adapting from Downturns: Prediction of Long-Term Conversational-Skill Development in Mental-Health Crisis Counselors

The paper introduces a method to predict whether volunteer mental‑health crisis counselors will improve their conversational skills early in their careers. It focuses on identifying moments counselors initially struggle with, tracking how they adapt to similar moments in later conversations, and using these early adaptations to forecast long‑term improvement. The approach outperforms baseline models that rely solely on conversation transcripts.

By Vivian Nguyen, Lillian Lee, Elizabeth A. Olson, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
arXiv AI
Sep 11

RESCUE-BENCH: Towards Relation-Aware Multi-Party Emotional Support Conversation Systems

The paper introduces RESCUE-BENCH, a benchmark for relation-aware multi‑party emotional support conversation systems. It is built from real couple and family interview data, comprising 191 samples, 7,079 annotated turns, and 1,064.8 minutes of video, and defines six tasks that assess relational understanding and relation‑sensitive support. Experiments with ten large language models show that while they handle local emotional cues reasonably well, they struggle with tasks that require modeling interpersonal relations, such as predicting relation patterns, viewpoints, and support strategies.

By Haichuan Hu, Yang Xiao, Mingni Tang, Jiawen Duan, Quanjun Zhang, Congqing He, Hao Zhang, Jiashuo Wang, Johan F. Hoorn, Wenjie Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 16

Disrupted Companionship: A Risk Assessment Framework and Cross-Platform Quantitative Analysis of Psychosocial Responses to AI Companion Disruptions

The paper examines how changes made by platforms can disrupt users’ relationships with AI companions. It catalogs 30 disruption events, creates a taxonomy of six types, and identifies three main causes. A risk‑assessment framework with four dimensions is proposed, and a Bayesian time‑series analysis of Reddit data shows that disruptions trigger spikes in anxiety, stress, suicidal expression, and grief, especially when relational continuity and transition support are lacking.

By Chau Do, Yunhao Yuan, Koustuv Saha, Renwen Zhang, Talayeh Aledavood