Virtual influencers, digitally-created characters with realistic human-like appearances, have
emerged as a distinctive type of virtual humans prominently featured in various virtual …

Conversational agents offer promise to provide an alternative to costly and scarce access to
human health providers. Particularly in the context of adherence to treatment advice and …

Stress has become one of the major reasons for many mental health related issues among
students of all age groups, which has resulted in devastating personal losses including …

The role of rapport facilitating cooperation and information disclosure has been widely
acknowledged by both researchers and practitioners across professional information …

The use of intelligent virtual agents (IVA) to support humans in social contexts will depend
on their social acceptability. Acceptance will be related to the human's perception of the IVAs …

Whilst the use of digital interventions to assist patients with self-management involving
embodied conversational agents (ECA) is emerging, the use of such agents to support …

Virtual advisors (VAs) are being utilised almost in every service nowadays from
entertainment to healthcare. To increase the user's trust in these VAs and encourage the …

Interventions to improve health and well-being abound. Whether they are designed for
prevention, maintenance or improvement, a key challenge is the motivation of the user to …

Positive human–agent relationships can effectively improve human experience and
performance in human–machine systems or environments. The characteristics of agents that …

Процедура и методы. В работе использовались общенаучные и частные методы:
коммуникативно-прагматический анализ, лингвистическое описание. Результаты …