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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Therapeutic support demand outstrips professional capacity.
  • Virtual agents offer scalable solutions for behavior change support.
  • Adaptive conversational strategies are crucial for effective motivational interviewing (MI).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a virtual agent capable of real-time, adaptive MI sessions.
  • To personalize therapeutic interactions through dynamic verbal and nonverbal adjustments.
  • To enhance digitally mediated therapeutic interventions.

Main Methods:

  • Embodied virtual agent using Greta 2.0 platform.
  • Nonverbal behavior generation via MODIFF diffusion model, adapting to user expressions.
  • Dialogue generation using a large language model (LLM) with a reinforcement learning-based MI dialogue manager.
  • User studies for validation of facial expressions and dialogue manager.

Main Results:

  • The virtual agent dynamically adapts verbal and nonverbal behaviors in real-time.
  • MODIFF model successfully adapts nonverbal cues to user facial expressions and motivation levels.
  • LLM-enhanced dialogue manager adapts to user profiles, validated through user testing.
  • The platform facilitates real-time, multimodal MI dialogues.

Conclusions:

  • The developed virtual agent provides a novel, open-source tool for personalized, adaptive MI.
  • This technology can significantly augment therapeutic support and facilitate behavior change.
  • Real-time multimodal interaction capabilities enhance digitally mediated therapy.