# A Piece of Theatre: Investigating How Teachers Design LLM Chatbots to Assist Adolescent Cyberbullying Education

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17456 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.17456/

## Key facts

- Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 15 of its 82 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 27 Feb 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 15 of 15)

- [Language Models are Few-Shot Learners](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.14165/) (2020)
- [Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.03442/) (2023)
- [Pre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in Natural Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.13586/) (2021)
- [Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.08207/) (2021)
- [CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.05858/) (2019)
- [Towards Measuring the Representation of Subjective Global Opinions in Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.16388/) (2023)
- [Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.04024/) (2022)
- [PromptSource: An Integrated Development Environment and Repository for Natural Language Prompts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.01279/) (2022)
- [AI Chains: Transparent and Controllable Human-AI Interaction by Chaining Large Language Model Prompts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.01691/) (2021)
- [PromptChainer: Chaining Large Language Model Prompts through Visual Programming](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.06566/) (2022)
- [A Recipe For Arbitrary Text Style Transfer with Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.03910/) (2021)
- [RewriteLM: An Instruction-Tuned Large Language Model for Text Rewriting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.15685/) (2023)
- [WinoQueer: A Community-in-the-Loop Benchmark for Anti-LGBTQ+ Bias in Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.15087/) (2023)
- [ALONE: A Dataset for Toxic Behavior among Adolescents on Twitter](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.06465/) (2020)
- [Controlled Language Generation for Language Learning Items](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.15731/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 12 of 12)

- [TeachTune: Reviewing Pedagogical Agents Against Diverse Student Profiles with Simulated Students](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.04078/) (2024)
- [Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.12557/) (2025)
- [Guardians and Offenders: A Survey on Harmful Content Generation and Safety Mitigation of LLM](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.05775/) (2025)
- [LLMs and Childhood Safety: Identifying Risks and Proposing a Protection Framework for Safe Child-LLM Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.11242/) (2025)
- [Safe-Child-LLM: A Developmental Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Safety in Child-LLM Interactions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.13510/) (2025)
- [Beyond Text-to-Text: An Overview of Multimodal and Generative Artificial Intelligence for Education Using Topic Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.16376/) (2024)
- ["Bespoke Bots": Diverse Instructor Needs for Customizing Generative AI Classroom Chatbots](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.00057/) (2026)
- [Revolutionising Role-Playing Games with ChatGPT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.02048/) (2024)
- [NeuroBridge: Using Generative AI to Bridge Cross-neurotype Communication Differences through Neurotypical Perspective-taking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.23434/) (2025)
- [Chaplains' Reflections on the Design and Usage of AI for Conversational Care](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.04017/) (2026)
- [Bridging Cultural Distance Between Models Default and Local Classroom Demands: How Global Teachers Adopt GenAI to Support Everyday Teaching Practices](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.10780/) (2025)
- [Can Artificial Intelligence Support Healthcare and Mental Health Through Early Cyberbullying Detection ? The Impact of Emotion-Aware AI on Proactive Online Safety](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.09735/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Cyberbullying harms teenagers' mental health, and teaching them upstanding intervention is crucial. Wizard-of-Oz studies show chatbots can scale up personalized and interactive cyberbullying education, but implementing such chatbots is a challenging and delicate task. We created a no-code chatbot design tool for K-12 teachers. Using large language models and prompt chaining, our tool allows teachers to prototype bespoke dialogue flows and chatbot utterances. In offering this tool, we explore teachers' distinctive needs when designing chatbots to assist their teaching, and how chatbot design tools might better support them. Our findings reveal that teachers welcome the tool enthusiastically. Moreover, they see themselves as playwrights guiding both the students' and the chatbot's behaviors, while allowing for some improvisation. Their goal is to enable students to rehearse both desirable and undesirable reactions to cyberbullying in a safe environment. We discuss the design opportunities LLM-Chains offer for empowering teachers and the research opportunities this work opens up.