Modern societies are facing health and healthcare challenges as never seen before. The
digital world in which we are living today considers digital health interventions such as …

Background Given the growing significance of conversational agents (CAs), researchers
have conducted a plethora of relevant studies on various technology-and usability-oriented …

Background The working alliance refers to an important relationship quality between health
professionals and clients that robustly links to treatment success. Recent research shows …

Background The current paper details findings from Elena+: Care for COVID-19, an app
developed to tackle the collateral damage of lockdowns and social distancing, by offering …

In an online experiment among native speakers of Dutch we measured addressees'
responses to emails written in the informal pronoun T or the formal pronoun V in HR …

Conversational agents (CAs) have recently become ubiquitous. Smart speakers, mobile
phone voice assistants, and in-car voice assistants have entered our lives. Studies have …

Does it matter whether applicants are addressed with formal or informal pronouns in online
job interviews? This study shows that it does indeed, at least for speakers of French and …

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) apps offer unique opportunities to support self-care
and behavior change, but poor user engagement limits their effectiveness. This is …

Large language models (LLMs) present an enormous evolution in the strategic potential of
conversational recommender systems (CRS). Yet to date, research has predominantly …

High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, significantly increases the risk of heart
disease and stroke, which are leading causes of death in the United States. While …