Conversational agents (CAs) are systems that interact with humans through natural
language user interfaces. They include systems with a range of conversational capabilities …

Conversational agents (CAs), described as software with which humans interact through
natural language, have increasingly attracted interest in both academia and practice …

Conversational agents have been developed for supporting a wide array of areas, including
autonomous vehicles, decision making, and health behavior change. In the last few years …

Recent advances in spoken language technology, artificial intelligence, and conversational
interface design, coupled with the emergence of smart devices, have increased the …

In this chapter, we provide a review of conversational agents (CAs), discussing chatbots,
intended for casual conversation with a user, as well as task-oriented agents that generally …

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

Conversational agents (CA) are artificial intelligence (AI) driven applications that can
process naturalist text and speech to deliver personalized interactions with users, ie …

Conversational agents are software programs that emulate conversation with humans
through natural language. Conversational agents are beginning to be used to automate the …

Software that interacts with its users through natural language, so-called conversational
agents (CAs), is permeating our lives with improving capabilities driven by advances in …

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 …