The International Journal of Human - Computer Studies (IJHCS) has accepted the paper “Ladderbot - A Conversational Agent for Human-like Online Laddering Interviews” co-authored by Tim Rietz and Alexander Maedche for publication.  In this study we propose and evaluate Ladderbot, a text-based conversational agent (CA) capable of facilitating
human-like online laddering interviews. We find that participants interacting with Ladderbot in average produce twice as many and about 30% longer answers. Further information is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1071581922001872