Auckland Uni student creates empathy chatbot for med students

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
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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