Jocelyn Shen — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences

Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal +1

ACL 2024findings

Modeling empathy is a complex endeavor that is rooted in interpersonal and experiential dimensions of human interaction, and remains an open problem within AI. Existing empathy datasets fall short in capturing the richness of empathy responses, often being confined to in-lab or acted scenarios, lack…

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2024

HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs

Jocelyn Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal, Maarten Sap

EMNLP 2024main

Empathy serves as a cornerstone in enabling prosocial behaviors, and can be evoked through sharing of personal experiences in stories. While empathy is influenced by narrative content, intuitively, people respond to the way a story is told as well, through narrative style. Yet the relationship betwe…

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