Explainable AI aims at building intelligent systems that are able to provide a clear, and
human understandable, justification of their decisions. This holds for both rule-based and …

This concise text provides an accessible introduction to artificial intelligence and intelligent
user interfaces (IUIs) and how they are at the heart of a communication revolution for …

Automatically monitoring and supporting healthy lifestyle is a recent research trend, fostered
by the availability of low-cost monitoring devices, and it can significantly contribute to the …

Explainable? virtual agents provide insight into the agent's decision-making process, which
aims to improve the user's acceptance of the agent's actions or recommendations. However …

In this paper, we present a study on personalized emphasis framing which can be used to
tailor the content of a message to enhance its appeal to different individuals. With this …

Cognitive biases in the context of consuming online information filtered by recommender
systems may lead to sub-optimal choices. One approach to mitigate such biases is through …

Information Systems (IS) researchers persistently examine how Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) changes attitudes and behaviours but rarely leverage …

Inspired by the role of therapist-patient relationship in fostering behaviour change, agent-
human relationship has been an active research area. This trusted relationship could be a …

A key acceptability criterion for artificial agents will be the possible moral implications of their
actions. In particular, intelligent persuasive systems (systems designed to influence humans …

In this paper we present PerKApp, a context-aware system for inducing the user to adopt
healthier lifestyles, based on a novel combination of persuasion technologies, natural …