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 …

Health-focused apps with chatbots (“healthbots”) have a critical role in addressing gaps in
quality healthcare. There is limited evidence on how such healthbots are developed and …

Background: The high demand for health care services and the growing capability of
artificial intelligence have led to the development of conversational agents designed to …

Background Conversational agents, also known as chatbots, are computer programs
designed to simulate human text or verbal conversations. They are increasingly used in a …

Objective Our objective was to review the characteristics, current applications, and
evaluation measures of conversational agents with unconstrained natural language input …

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 …

Background The personalization of conversational agents with natural language user
interfaces is seeing increasing use in health care applications, shaping the content …

The landscape of healthcare communication is undergoing a profound transformation in the
digital age, and at the heart of this evolution are AI-powered chatbots. This mini-review …

Objective Virtual conversational agents, or chatbots, have emerged as a novel approach to
health data collection. However, research on patient perceptions of chatbots in comparison …