A Rule-Based Conversational Agent for Mental Health and Well-Being in Young People: Formative Case Series During the Rise of Generative AI

Aimee-Rose Wrightson-Hester   ¹ , PhD ;   Gee Anderson   ¹ ;   Joel Dunstan   ² , MIT ;   Peter M McEvoy   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Christopher J Sutton   ⁴ , PhD ;   Bronwyn Myers   ^{1, 5} , PhD ;   Sarah J Egan   ¹ , PhD ;   Sara Jane Tai   ⁶ , DClinPsy ;   Melanie Johnston-Hollitt   ² , PhD ;   Wai Chen   ¹ , PhD ;   Tom Gedeon   ⁷ , PhD ;   Joanna C Moullin   ¹ , PhD ;   Warren Mansell   ¹ , DClinPsy, DPhil

¹ Curtin enAble Institute, School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

² Curtin Institute for Data Science, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

³ Centre for Clinical Interventions, North Metropolitan Health Service, Nedlands, Australia

⁴ Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit,, University of Lancashire, Lancaster, United Kingdom

⁵ Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Western Cape, South Africa

⁶ School of Health Sciences; Division of Psychology and Mental Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

⁷ School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia