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Catherine Bao

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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Jun 2026

Empirically Grounded Behavioral Adaptivity for LLM-Based Virtual Patients in Psychotherapy Training

Simulated patients offer a scalable way to train psychotherapy micro-skills such as empathic responding and exploratory probing, but current systems either follow fixed scripts or rely on LLMs that drift unpredictably over long sessions. We present the Adaptive Virtual Patient (AVP), which adapts its disclosure behavio...

Angela Chen, Si-Wei Jin, Catherine Bao et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1

#natural language process... Jun 2026

Evaluating Bias in Phoneme-Based Automatic Speech Recognition Systems: An Analysis of IPA Transcription Models

This study evaluates the performance of WhisperIPA and ZIPA, two state-of-the-art open-source systems that generate International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions, and examines how performance varies across language, gender, accent, ethnicity, and age.

Catherine Bao, Maneesha Rani Saha, Neal Patwari · arXiv.org · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

The Machine's Internal Clock: Do LLMs Share Human Temporal Illusions?

This work investigates whether written narratives alone can evoke human temporal illusions, using a new benchmark of 6,684 narrative pairs spanning five illusions and finds that human readers prefer expected scenarios in only two of the five illusions, those where the manipulation is directly visible in text rather tha...

Catherine Bao, Vivek Srikumar · 0 citations