Karolina Gabor-Siatkowska
supervisor: Artur Janicki
Chatbots and dialogue systems, are conversational agents interact socially with people by analysing spoken or written data, so that they can provide an appropriate response. Their popularity is rising in many fields e.g. in healthcare, and psychiatry. Because of the growing interest in psychological therapies, there is a special need for those dialogue systems.
The ability to deliver some forms of behavioral therapy via computers could be a very helpful step in mental health care. The combined use in computer-based therapies may offer many possibilities for the treatment of physical and mental disabilities. Therefore, computer-assisted therapies have to be studied in depth.
Eyetrackers are used to measure, e.g., eye movements, recently are also used in the human-computer interface. They serve as a source of data e.g. of the psychological state of a person.
Manufacturers of eyetrackers recommend their calibration, which may be in everyday use very troublesome (especially in certain domains). The purpose of my recent studies was to determine if this calibration is necessary, in order to be able to use this eyetracker in further studies and experiments.
The studies compared data obtained from an eyetracker with and without calibration, e.g., pupil diameter was measured. Preliminary analysis showed that there was no significant difference between the results of these measurements.