BetterMood: A human-like AI counseling service for adolescents and young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In-person counseling faces limitations in timing and geographical accessibility, often causing adolescents and young adults (AYAs) to miss timely psychological support. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), the mental health care industry has increasingly focused on developing chat counseling services as supplementary tools to reduce these barriers. However, existing services have two primary limitations: tendency toward generic advice and absence of human-like dialogue. To overcome these limitations, this article proposes BetterMood, a human-like AI counseling service specifically for Korean-speaking AYAs.

Methods

Our design for BetterMood separately addressed the content and delivery of counseling dialogue. For content, we develop a concern-aware couns

SUBMITTER: Kim DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12605886 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature