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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dublin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-767-2
