Cognitive Empathy Training Role-switching fostered perspective growth Skills reinforced across sessions Reported transfer into everyday life Role switchingFigure 1: CoEmpaTeam uses LLM-driven avatars with distinct personalities to foster cognitive empathy through role-switching.In Study 1, avatar self-assessment and human evaluation validated that Alice, Benji, and Caden reliably expressed their intended personalities (left).In Study 2, participants trained with CoEmpaTeam across three sessions over two weeks, engaging in co-living task with different avatars (center).Results showed improvements in cognitive empathy and reported transfer of these skills into everyday life (right).
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