Measuring the "Interaction Gap" in Drama Therapy with AI

2026-08-29

AI Summary

研究通过比较患者与AI和人类伙伴进行戏剧治疗时的表现差异，提出将这种'互动差距'作为诊断工具，并探讨了任务设计和测量信号。

Abstract

Generative AI is increasingly being introduced into expressive arts therapy, where it is often credited with offering a non-judgmental environment that supports psychological safety. Existing HCI work has largely positioned AI as a co-creative material or as a bridge/mediator into human-led care. This paper explores a different position. When a patient performs the same drama therapy task with an AI partner and with a human partner, the resulting self-presentations tend to differ in patterned ways. We propose treating this difference, the Interaction Gap, as a diagnostic lens within drama therapy. Rather than asking which context elicits a truer self, the lens reads the difference between the two performances as information about the social pressures shaping self-expression in each context. We sketch a starting point for task design and measurement signals grounded in drama therapy's existing use of role and aesthetic distance, and raise provocations for workshop discussion: the observer effect and privacy paradox that measurement introduces, and the question of whose lens the gap is.

Problem

• Interaction Gap
• Drama Therapy
• Self-Presentation
• Social Pressures
• AI Partner

Innovation

• Interaction Gap
• Drama Therapy
• Generative AI
• Social Pressures