Auckland Uni student creates empathy chatbot for med students

PhD student Monika Byrne's software can recognise if trainees are using an empathetic approach. (Image: University of Auckland)

Ben Moore

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

Monika Byrne is a big believer in the value of empathy, especially in an area where people feel most vulnerable: healthcare. Byrne, a PhD student at the University of Auckland, spent the last few years in the liminal space between human biology and digital tech, earning a master's degree in engineering by developing a digital model of a placenta based on computed tomography (CT) images.Her real interest, however, was always in behavioural science.This was what drew her to a doctoral project that aimed to create an artificial intelligen...

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