List of publications

Sedlakova, J., Lucivero, F., Pavarini, G., Kerasidou, A. (2025). Human-like Epistemic Trust? Navigating Responsible Human-AI Interaction in Mental Healthcare. American Journal of Bioethics. 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2025.2526734.

Sedlakova, J. (2025). The Ethics of Humanlikeness of AI Therapy Chatbots: A commentary. The Hastings Report. https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.5010.

Daniore, P./ Sedlakova, J.*, Zavattaro, F., Knieps, M., von Wyl, V., Benhamou, Y., Gille F. (2025). Public views on open data research in Switzerland: Implications for research, science communication, and policy. Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/09636625251330575.

Viganò, E., Hauser, Ch., Cacciatori, E., Ferrario, A., Sedlakova, J. (2025). Mapping and Mitigating the Pains of Responsible Artificial Intelligence Implementation: An Analysis of Swiss Organizations. IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), Zürich, Switzerland, 2025, pp. 119-126, doi: 10.1109/SDS66131.2025.00023.

Sedlakova, J., Stanikic, M., Gille, F., Bernard, J., Horn, A.B., Wolf, M., Haag, C., Floris, J., Morgenshtern, G., Schneider, G., Zumbrunn Wojczyńska, A., Mouton Dorey, C., Ettlin, D.A., Gero, D., Friemel, T., Lu, Z., Papadopoulos, K., Schläpfer, S., Wang, N., von Wyl, V. (2025). Refining established practices for research question definition to foster interdisciplinary research skills in a digital age: Consensus study with nominal group technique. JMIR Medical Education. DOI: 10.2196/56369.

Morley, J., Hine, E., Roberts, H., Sirbu, R., Ashrafian, H., Blease, Ch., Boyd, M.,  Chen, J. L., Chiavegatto Filho, A. D. P., Coiera, E., Cohen, I. G., Fiske, A., Jayakumar, N., Kerasidou, A., Mandreoli, F., McCradden, M. D., Namuganza, S, Nsoesie, E. O., Parikh, R. B., Reddy, S., Sedlakova, J., Sunbul, T., van Baalen, S., van Kolfschooten, H., Floridi, L. (2025). Global Health in the Age of AI: Charting a Course for Ethical Implementation and Societal Benefit. Minds & Machines 35, 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-025-09730-3.

Sachdeva, M., Narayana, Ch., Wiedenkeller, M., Sedlakova, J., Bernard. J. (2025). A Design Space for the Critical Validation of LLM-Generated Tabular Data. ArXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04487.

Matt, M., Sedlakova, J., Bernard, J., Zeppelzauer, M. Waldner, M. (2025). Scalable Class-Centric Visual Interactive Labeling. Computers & Graphics. 2025: 104240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2025.104240.

Ferrario, A./Sedlakova J.*, Trachsel, M. (2024). The Role of Humanization and Robustness of Large Language Models in Conversational Artificial Intelligence for Individuals with Depression: A Critical Analysis. JMIR Mental Health. DOI: 10.2196/56569.

Sedlakova, J. (2024). Conversational AI for Psychotherapy and Its Role in the Space of Reason. Cosmos + Taxis, 12(5+6):80-87.

Sedlakova J., Trachsel, M. (2023). Conversational Artificial Intelligence in Psychotherapy: A New Therapeutic Tool or Agent?  The American Journal of Bioethics. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2022.2048739.

Sedlakova, J., P. Daniore, A. Horn Wintsch, M. Wolf, M. Stanikic, Ch. Haag, Ch. Sieber, et al. (2023). Challenges and Best Practices for Digital Unstructured Data Enrichment in Health Research: A Systematic Narrative Review. PLOS Digital Health 2 (10): e0000347. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000347.

Sedlakova, J., A. L. Westermair, N. Biller-Andorno, Ch. A. Meier, M. Trachsel. (2023). Comparison of Analog and Digital Patient Decision Aids for the Treatment of Depression: A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Digital Health 1;5:1208889. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1208889.

Trachsel M., Sedlakova J. (2022). Ethics of telepsychiatry versus face-to-face treatment: let the patients make their autonomous choice. Journal of Medical Ethics. Jan;48(1):32-33. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-108073.

Biller-Andorno N., Aebi-Müller R., Salathé M., Sedlakova J. (2021). Ineffectiveness and unlikelihood of benefit: dealing with the concept of futility in medicine. SAMW Empfehlungen. Schweizer Akademie der medizinischen Wissenschaften.

Book Chapters

Gille, F., Papadopoulos, K., Sedlakova, J., Zavattaro, F., Brall, C. (2024). Vertrauen: Welche Rolle spielt Vertrauen in Digitalwirtschaft. In: Staffler, L., Ebersberger, B., Jobin, A. (eds) Digitalwirtschaft. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45724-2_6.

Sedlakova, J., Ferrario, A., Trachsel, M. (2025). Empathy in Mental Health Care Interventions by Conversational Artificial Intelligence. In: Empathy in Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health Care: Clinical, Philosophical, and Scientific Perspectives. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

Sedlakova, J., Trachsel, M. The Ethics of Digital Mental Health Care: Conversational Artificial Intelligence and Online Therapy. In: Mental Health Ethics: Current Controversies and Emerging Debates. Oxford University Press. (forthcoming).

* These authors contributed equally.