ChaCha: Leveraging Large Language Models to Prompt Children to Share Their Emotions about Personal Events

arXiv:2309.12244v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Children typically learn to identify and express emotions through sharing their stories and feelings with others, particularly their family. However, it is challenging for parents or siblings to have emotional communication with children since children are still developing their communication skills. We present ChaCha, a chatbot that encourages and guides children to share personal events and associated emotions. ChaCha combines a state machine and large language models (LLMs) to keep the dialogue on track while …

abstract arxiv children communication cs.ai cs.cl cs.hc emotions events express family feelings identify language language models large language large language models learn parents prompt stories through type