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On Wednesday the 27th of January EAISI organizes a research meet on Conversational Agents. Such agents relate to interesting AI challenges that are mentioned in the EAISI scientific roadmap as well as in our EAISI moonshots.

Conversational agents have the potential to increase the warmth of digital care. Within TUE, such agents have been studied specifically in the context of self-compassion in an online mental healthcare setting. After evaluating an academic proof of concept based on Google’s Dialog Flow and Facebook Messenger, we aim to reconsider our choice of technological platform. Although informed consent procedures involved informing study participants that conversational information would be accessible to Facebook and Google, in future work we aim to leverage AI technology that fundamentally protects European privacy values better. Since such an exploration is relevant to various other scientific studies within TUE, we provide an open forum where we first summarize our experiences on Dialog Flow and then we consider two European alternative technologies. Specifically, representatives from Rasa (Vincent Warmerdam) and Boost.AI (Linnea Bergström and colleagues) will showcase their technologies and discuss topics such as GDPR compliance. Finally, we will have a Q&A session. When this leads to sufficient traction, follow-up events will be organized to elaborate on specific topics in more detail.

More information about the speakers can be found on the TU/e-website.