Conducting Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with an Adaptive Virtual Agent

When conversing, people adapt their behaviors to one another to show their engagement. Virtual agents, acting as interaction partners, should also adapt to their interlocutors in real time. In this paper, we introduce a virtual agent delivering Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and adapting its behaviors in real time. The system focuses on the real-time generation of adaptive behavior and management of natural CBT dialogue.