Skip to main content
Peer-reviewed Authoritative

Designing and Evaluating a Chatbot for Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse

A user study (n=25) comparing a purpose-built chatbot against conventional internet search as a support channel for survivors of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). The study evaluates the chatbot on information organization and perceived emotional support relative to self-directed search.

Publisher

ACM (Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems); Seoul National University

Published

29 Apr 2022

Added

today

Key Findings

  • Participants rated the chatbot more favorably than internet search for organizing relevant information about IBSA recourse and support
  • The chatbot was also rated more favorably for perceived emotional support during the help-seeking process
  • The authors derive design implications for future IBSA-support conversational tools

Methodology Notes

Between/within-subjects user study, n=25, comparing chatbot interaction against internet search. ACM Digital Library full text was not directly fetchable (bot-blocked); bibliographic details drawn from Crossref plus corroborating index records (SNU institutional repository, ResearchGate).

Sources

ACM Digital Library (primary)

Archived snapshot (Wayback Machine) — preserved against link rot

Authors

Wookjae Maeng, Joonhwan Lee

Tags

ibsasurvivor-supportuser-studysouth-korea

Cite This

APA

Wookjae Maeng, Joonhwan Lee (2022). Designing and Evaluating a Chatbot for Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse. ACM (Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems); Seoul National University. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3517629