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title = "{P}sycho{GAT}: A Novel Psychological Measurement Paradigm through Interactive Fiction Games with {LLM} Agents",
author = "Yang, Qisen and
Wang, Zekun and
Chen, Honghui and
Wang, Shenzhi and
Pu, Yifan and
Gao, Xin and
Huang, Wenhao and
Song, Shiji and
Huang, Gao",
editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
Martins, Andre and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.luhme-long.779/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.779",
pages = "14470--14505",
abstract = "Psychological measurement is essential for mental health, self-understanding, and personal development. Traditional methods, such as self-report scales and psychologist interviews, often face challenges with engagement and accessibility. While game-based and LLM-based tools have been explored to improve user interest and automate assessment, they struggle to balance engagement with generalizability. In this work, we propose PsychoGAT (Psychological Game AgenTs) to achieve a generic gamification of psychological assessment. The main insight is that powerful LLMs can function both as adept psychologists and innovative game designers. By incorporating LLM agents into designated roles and carefully managing their interactions, PsychoGAT can transform any standardized scales into personalized and engaging interactive fiction games. To validate the proposed method, we conduct psychometric evaluations to assess its effectiveness and employ human evaluators to examine the generated content across various psychological constructs, including depression, cognitive distortions, and personality traits. Results demonstrate that PsychoGAT serves as an effective assessment tool, achieving statistically significant excellence in psychometric metrics such as reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. Moreover, human evaluations confirm PsychoGAT`s enhancements in content coherence, interactivity, interest, immersion, and satisfaction."
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%A Wang, Zekun
%A Chen, Honghui
%A Wang, Shenzhi
%A Pu, Yifan
%A Gao, Xin
%A Huang, Wenhao
%A Song, Shiji
%A Huang, Gao
%Y Ku, Lun-Wei
%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
%S Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2024
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%C Bangkok, Thailand
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%X Psychological measurement is essential for mental health, self-understanding, and personal development. Traditional methods, such as self-report scales and psychologist interviews, often face challenges with engagement and accessibility. While game-based and LLM-based tools have been explored to improve user interest and automate assessment, they struggle to balance engagement with generalizability. In this work, we propose PsychoGAT (Psychological Game AgenTs) to achieve a generic gamification of psychological assessment. The main insight is that powerful LLMs can function both as adept psychologists and innovative game designers. By incorporating LLM agents into designated roles and carefully managing their interactions, PsychoGAT can transform any standardized scales into personalized and engaging interactive fiction games. To validate the proposed method, we conduct psychometric evaluations to assess its effectiveness and employ human evaluators to examine the generated content across various psychological constructs, including depression, cognitive distortions, and personality traits. Results demonstrate that PsychoGAT serves as an effective assessment tool, achieving statistically significant excellence in psychometric metrics such as reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. Moreover, human evaluations confirm PsychoGAT‘s enhancements in content coherence, interactivity, interest, immersion, and satisfaction.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.luhme-long.779/
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%P 14470-14505
Markdown (Informal)
[PsychoGAT: A Novel Psychological Measurement Paradigm through Interactive Fiction Games with LLM Agents](https://aclanthology.org/2024.luhme-long.779/) (Yang et al., ACL 2024)
ACL
- Qisen Yang, Zekun Wang, Honghui Chen, Shenzhi Wang, Yifan Pu, Xin Gao, Wenhao Huang, Shiji Song, and Gao Huang. 2024. PsychoGAT: A Novel Psychological Measurement Paradigm through Interactive Fiction Games with LLM Agents. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 14470–14505, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.