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"text": "The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world in unimaginable ways, dramatically challenging our health system and drastically changing our daily lives. As we learned from recent large-scale analyses that were performed on social media datasets and extensive surveys, many people are currently experiencing increased anxiety, loneliness, depression, concerns for the health of family and themselves, unexpected unemployment, increased child care or homeschooling, and general concern with what the future might look like. 1 Research in expressive writing (Pennebaker, 1997b) and motivational interviewing (Miller and Rollnick, 2012) has shown that even simple interactions where people talk about one particular experience can have significant psychological value.",
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"text": "Our system is distinct from Wysa and Woebot in that it is designed specifically for coping with COVID-19 and allows users to write more topic related free-form responses. It asks open-ended questions and encourages users to introspect, and then provides visualized feedback afterward, whereas the others have a conversational logic mainly based on pre-coded multiple choice options.",
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"text": "Our system conducts an interview-style interaction with the users about how the COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting them. The system's goal is to encourage users to write as much as possible about themselves, building upon previous findings regarding the psychological value of writing about personal upheavals and the use of reflective listening for behavioral change (Pennebaker, 1997b; Miller and Rollnick, 2012) .",
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"text": "The interview consists of a set of writing prompts in the form of questions about specific issues related to the pandemic. The system guides the interaction based on users responses, and provides reflective feedback and asks additional questions whenever appropriate. In order to provide reflective feedback, the system automatically detects the topics being discussed (e.g., work, family) or emotions being expressed (e.g., anger, anxiety), and responds with reflective statements that ask the user to elaborate or to answer a related question to explore that concept more deeply. For instance, if the system detects work as a topic of interest, it responds with \"How has work changed under COVID? What might you be able to do to keep your career moving during these difficult times?\" After the interaction ends, i.e., all prompts have been answered by the user, the system provides detailed visual and textual feedback.",
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"text": "[Grateful] The outbreak has been affecting everyone's life, but people have the amazing ability to find good things even in the most challenging situations. What is something that you have done or experienced recently that you are grateful for?",
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"text": "Our system's capability for language understanding relies on identifying words belonging to various lexicons. This simple strategy allowed us to quickly develop a platform upon which we intend to implement a more sophisticated language understanding ability in future work. When a user responds to one of the main prompts, the system looks for words belonging to specific topics and word categories. The system examines the user responses to identify dominant word categories or topics and triggers a reflection from a set of appropriate reflections. 7 If none of these types are matched, it responds with a generic 6 We removed an additional question about how people's lives have changed since the outbreak, as well as a question about what people missed the most about their previous lives.",
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"text": "We examine the system's ability to help users cope with COVID-19 related issues by analyzing the different ratings provided by users before and after their interaction with C.P. First, we look at the change in stress for the users after using our system as stress decrease is one target by which we can see Figure 1 : Top: before and after stress ratings by users whose stress increased after interaction with C.P. Middle: before and after stress ratings by users whose stress remained the same after interaction with C.P. Bottom: before and after stress ratings by users whose stress decreased after interaction with C.P. The bars are ordered by the magnitude of change (top and bottom), or by the static stress rating (middle).",
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"text": "Throughout this discussion, we use \u2206Stress to indicate how the users stress rating differs before and after the interaction: \u2206Stress = Stress af ter -Stress bef ore . Negative values for \u2206Stress are therefore an indicator of stress reduction, whereas positive values for \u2206Stress reflect an increase in stress. We start by measuring the Spearman correlation between the different ratings for the 174 interactions with C.P. Results are shown in Table 1 .",
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