IN ACTION
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Building a Journaling Bot
In Action
Joanna Kuc
PhD Candidate in Experimental Psychology at University College London and Data Scientist at Compass Pathways
Daniel Lametti
Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University
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Season 3 Episode 16
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Daniel Lametti and Joanna Kuc join Robb and Josh to share the advanced chatbot they created for a mental health research project. Dan Lametti is an Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also the Director of Academic Fellowships at OneReach.ai. Dan also taught and conducted research in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, and helped fund research into Neuroscience and Mental Health as an advisor at the Wellcome Trust. Joanna is a PhD Candidate in Experimental Psychology at University College London and her work focuses on decoding language biomarkers relating to mental health. She is also a Data scientist at Compass Pathways. Using the OneReach.ai platform along with Telegram they created a bot that collected journal entries from participants as either written text of voice notes. Along with reminding people to make their daily entries, this bot also provided some participant groups with weekly summaries of their entries. Learn more about the design of this experience and some of their findings in this engaging and practical episode of Invisible Machines.
About the guests
Daniel Lametti
Daniel Lametti is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He's also the Director of Academic Research Fellowships at OneReach.ai. Prior to these roles, Daniel taught and conducted research in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford.
Joanna Kuc
Joanna is a PhD student in Experimental Psychology at University College London, working under the supervision of Dr Jeremy Skipper in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences.
