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PsyCounAssist: A Full-Cycle AI-Powered Psychological Counseling Assistant System

Published: April 23, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.16573v1

By: Xianghe Liu, Jiaqi Xu, Tao Sun

Potential Business Impact:

Helps therapists understand feelings and write notes faster.

Business Areas:
Virtual Assistant Software

Psychological counseling is a highly personalized and dynamic process that requires therapists to continuously monitor emotional changes, document session insights, and maintain therapeutic continuity. In this paper, we introduce PsyCounAssist, a comprehensive AI-powered counseling assistant system specifically designed to augment psychological counseling practices. PsyCounAssist integrates multimodal emotion recognition combining speech and photoplethysmography (PPG) signals for accurate real-time affective analysis, automated structured session reporting using large language models (LLMs), and personalized AI-generated follow-up support. Deployed on Android-based tablet devices, the system demonstrates practical applicability and flexibility in real-world counseling scenarios. Experimental evaluation confirms the reliability of PPG-based emotional classification and highlights the system's potential for non-intrusive, privacy-aware emotional support. PsyCounAssist represents a novel approach to ethically and effectively integrating AI into psychological counseling workflows.

Page Count
7 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Human-Computer Interaction