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Human Empathy as Encoder: AI-Assisted Depression Assessment in Special Education

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  • Haebom

Author

Boning Zhao, Xinnuo Li, Yutong Hu

Outline

This paper highlights the challenges of assessing student depression in sensitive settings such as special education settings and highlights the limitations of standardized questionnaires and automated methods, which fail to fully reflect students' true circumstances. Specifically, it criticizes the overlooking of individualized insights stemming from teachers' empathic connections and proposes Human Empathy as Encoder (HEAE), a novel framework that integrates teachers' empathic abilities into AI. HEAE integrates students' narrative texts with a nine-dimensional "empathy vector" (EV) derived by the teacher based on the PHQ-9 framework, thereby incorporating structured empathic insights into AI inputs in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human judgment. Experimental results demonstrate an accuracy of 82.74% in seven-level severity classification, suggesting a direction for responsible and ethical affective computing.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present an innovative approach that integrates teachers' empathy into AI to improve the accuracy of student depression assessments.
Demonstrates the potential for developing more responsible and ethical AI systems through collaboration between humans and AI.
Suggests ways to utilize AI in sensitive situations such as special education environments.
Using the PHQ-9 framework to construct an empathy vector, balancing objective indicators and subjective judgments.
Limitations:
Generalization may be difficult due to the composition of empathy vectors that depend on specific educational environments and the subjective judgment of teachers.
Further research is needed on the dimension composition and weight settings of the empathy vector.
The model's performance needs to be validated on other datasets and environments.
Research is needed to track changes in students' depression over the long term and ensure that AI can provide ongoing, appropriate assessments.
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