CuentosIE: can a chatbot about "tales with a message" help to teach emotional intelligence?
<|reference_start|>CuentosIE: can a chatbot about "tales with a message" help to teach emotional intelligence?: In this article, we present CuentosIE (TalesEI: chatbot of tales with a message to develop Emotional Intelligence), an educational chatbot on emotions that also provides teachers and psychologists with a tool to monitor their students/patients through indicators and data compiled by CuentosIE. The use of "tales with a message" is justified by their simplicity and easy understanding, thanks to their moral or associated metaphors. The main contributions of CuentosIE are the selection, collection, and classification of a set of highly specialized tales, as well as the provision of tools (searching, reading comprehension, chatting, recommending, and classifying) that are useful for both educating users about emotions and monitoring their emotional development. The preliminary evaluation of the tool has obtained encouraging results, which provides an affirmative answer to the question posed in the title of the article.<|reference_end|>
@article{ferrández2024cuentosie:,
    title={CuentosIE: can a chatbot about "tales with a message" help to teach
  emotional intelligence?},
    author={Antonio Ferr'andez, Roc'io Lavigne-Cerv'an, Jes'us Peral, Ignasi
  Navarro-Soria, 'Angel Lloret, David Gil, Carmen Rocamora},
    journal={PeerJ Computer Science, Volume 10, February 2024, ID e1866},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.7717/peerj-cs.1866},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.07193},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI}
}