DocumentCode
1610550
Title
Toward conducting motivational interviewing with an on-demand clinician avatar for tailored health behavior change interventions
Author
Lisetti, Christine L. ; Yasavur, Ugan ; Visser, Ubbo ; Rishe, Naphtali
Author_Institution
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA
fYear
2011
Firstpage
246
Lastpage
249
Abstract
In this article we describe work-in-progress about the development of avatar-based personalized assistants that can delivered motivational interviewing health behavior change interventions, tailored to its specific users Our approach combines the latest progress in Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), believable agents, and dialog systems. We discuss how we use different platforms to aim at providing accessibility of personalized health assistant, anytime anywhere.
Keywords
avatars; medical computing; avatar-based personalized assistants; believable agents; dialog systems; embodied conversational agents; health behavior change interventions; motivational interview conduction; on-demand clinician avatar; personalized health assistant; work-in-progress; Alcoholic beverages; Avatars; Conferences; Context; Educational institutions; Employee welfare; Mobile handsets;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Dublin
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-767-2
Type
conf
Filename
6038805
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