[HTML][HTML] Embodied conversational agents providing Motivational Interviewing to improve health-related behaviors: Scoping review

J Mercado, IE Espinosa-Curiel… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are advanced human-like interfaces
that engage users in natural face-to-face conversations and interactions. These traits …

Increasing efficiency and well-being? a systematic review of the empirical claims of the double-benefit argument in socially assistive devices

J Haltaufderheide, A Lucht, C Strünck, J Vollmann - BMC Medical Ethics, 2023 - Springer
Background Socially assistive devices (care robots, companions, smart screen assistants)
have been advocated as a promising tool in elderly care in Western healthcare systems …

Pedagogical agents

HC Lane, NL Schroeder - The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This handbook consists of 28 chapters, covering the major topics in Socially Inter active
Agents (SIAs). Each chapter provides a survey that summarizes the theoret ical background …

Long-term interaction with relational SIAs

JM Kory-Westlund, H Won Park, I Grover… - The Handbook on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on long-term interaction with Socially
Interactive Agents (SIAs). Over the past of couple decades, as SIAs have become more …

IAVA: Interactive and Adaptive Virtual Agent

J Woo, M Grimaldi, C Pelachaud… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
During an interaction, partners adapt their behaviors to each other. Adaptation can have
several functions such as being a sign of engagement and enhancing human users' …

Serious games with SIAs

P Gebhard, D Tsovaltzi, T Schneeberger… - The Handbook on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
[…] and characteristics for games […] in non-game contexts”[Deterding et al. 2011, p. 13].
Serious games are explicitly designed to serve a serious purpose. Such games can be …

Challenge discussion on socially interactive agents: Considerations on social interaction, computational architectures, evaluation, and ethics

B Lugrin, C Pelachaud, E André, R Aylett… - The Handbook on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This chapter contains a collection of interviews on current challenges and future directions
that researchers are faced with when working with Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs), see …

Adaptive virtual agent: Design and evaluation for real-time human-agent interaction

J Woo, K Shidara, C Achard, H Tanaka… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
When we converse, we adapt our behaviors to our interlocutors. The adaptation can serve to
indicate our engagement which can also elicit enhancement of the involvement of others …

[HTML][HTML] A Digital Counselor-Delivered Intervention for Substance Use Among People With HIV: Development and Usability Study

HE Hutton, S Aggarwal, A Gillani… - JMIR Formative …, 2023 - formative.jmir.org
Background: Substance use disorders are prevalent and undertreated among people with
HIV. Computer-delivered interventions (CDIs) show promise in expanding reach, delivering …

Socially interactive agent dialogue

D Traum - The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied
Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, Page 1 15 forum! Today’s topic is Socially …