| Abstract |
I am going to talk about what I have done so far in my PhD as well as the current status of my work. During my PhD research I am developing an ‘artificial friend’, i.e., an intelligent agent that provides support via text messages in social media in order to alleviate the stress that users experience as a result of everyday problems. The agent consists of three main components: 1) a module that processes text messages classifies them into categories of problems, 2) a module that selects appropriate support strategies based on a validated psychological model of emotion regulation, and 3) a module that generates appropriate responses based on the output of the first two modules. The application is able to interact with users via the social network Telegram. |