Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the world and the relationships among humans as
the learning capabilities of machines have allowed for a new means of communication …

Chatbots are becoming a trend in many fields such as medical, service industry and more
recently in education. Especially in healthcare education, there is a growing interest in …

Introduction: Practicing a medical history using standardized patients is an essential
component of medical school curricula. Recent advances in technology now allow for newer …

Virtual patient software allows health professionals to practise their skills by interacting with
tools simulating clinical scenarios. A natural language dialogue system can provide natural …

Introduction Advances in natural language understanding have facilitated the development
of Virtual Standardized Patients (VSPs) that may soon rival human patients in conversational …

Conversational interaction, for example through chatbots, is well-suited to enable automated
health coaching tools to support self-management and prevention of chronic diseases …

Simulated consultations through virtual patients allow medical students to practice history-
taking skills. Ideally, applications should provide interactions in natural language and be …

Randomized prospective studies represent the gold standard for experimental design. In this
paper, we present a randomized prospective study to validate the benefits of combining rule …

The cognitive approach to psychotherapy aims to change patients' maladaptive schemas,
that is, overly negative views on themselves, the world, or the future. To obtain awareness of …

LLMs are known to be very powerful, exhibiting both great benefits and great risk. We seek
to leverage the benefits, in particular the ability to be fluent, conversational dialogue agents …