Conversational agents have increasingly been deployed in healthcare applications.
However, significant challenges remain in developing this technology. Recent research in …

Background Health care and well-being are 2 main interconnected application areas of
conversational agents (CAs). There is a significant increase in research, development, and …

Automated dialogue systems represent a promising approach for health care promotion,
thanks to their ability to emulate the experience of face-to-face interactions between health …

Evaluating conversational agents (CAs) that are supposed to be applied in healthcare
settings and ensuring their quality is essential to avoid patient harm and ensure efficacy of …

Chatbots are emerging as a promising platform for accessing and delivering healthcare
services. The evidence is in the growing number of publicly available chatbots aiming at …

Building conversational agents have many technical, design and linguistic challenges. Other
more complex elements include using emotionally intelligent conversational agent to build …

Conversational agents (CA) are chatbot-based systems supporting the interaction with users
through text, speech, or other modalities. They are used in an increasing number of medical …

Objectives: To describe the use and promise of conversational agents in digital health—
including health promotion andprevention—and how they can be combined with other new …

Abstract Objectives Conversational agents (CAs) with emerging artificial intelligence present
new opportunities to assist in health interventions but are difficult to evaluate, deterring their …

Background Conversational agents (CAs), or chatbots, are computer programs that simulate
conversations with humans. The use of CAs in health care settings is recent and rapidly …