Katharina Ebner
Dr. Katharina Ebner studied Psychology and Business at LMU Munich and the University of Hartford, USA. She received her diploma in 2006 and her Ph.D. in 2013. From 2007 until 2011, she was project manager and research associate at the Bundeswehr University Munich and from 2011 to 2014, she was research associate at the Department of I/O psychology at Technical University Braunschweig, thereby combining both, scientific work and practical access in her specialization in personnel development. Since 2015, she is Post-Doc at the Chair of Business and Social Psychology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and habilitates on the topic of career development and coaching.
Putting AI into Coaching: Analyzing the Effectiveness of a Career Coaching Intervention Conducted by a Conversational Agent
The use of chatbots in psychological contexts (esp. psychotherapy) is a new and growing area of research. The use of chatbots in coaching with a scientific background, on the other hand, is not very widespread. The aim of the research project is to develop a coaching chatbot that can be used to conduct the initial conversation of a career coaching process digitally, and thus independent of time, space and financial restrictions. The psychological effects of the chatbot are to be tested using a dismantling study design implemented by a modular chatbot structure with the help of artificial intelligence technologies.