Papers by Vidya Srinivas
Substance over Style: Evaluating Proactive Conversational Coaching Agents (2025.acl-long)
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Vidya Srinivas, Xuhai Xu, Xin Liu, Kumar Ayush, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Shwetak Patel, Daniel McDuff, Tim Althoff
| Challenge: | Recent NLP research has focused on single-turn tasks with well-defined objectives or evaluation criteria. |
| Approach: | They describe five multi-turn coaching agents that exhibit distinct conversational styles and evaluate them through a user study. |
| Outcome: | The authors compare user feedback with third-person evaluations from health experts and an LM to find that stylistic components in absence of core functionality are viewed negatively. |