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 …

The utilisation of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) to build a human-agent working
alliance holds promise to promote health behavior change and improve health outcomes …

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 …

Embodied conversational agents are often included in health behaviour change
applications as intelligent virtual coaches. A major challenge in their development is …

Prior research has shown that the more patients know about their disease, health, and
lifestyle the better the health outcomes are. Patients who are suffering from either a physical …

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) can increase user engagement and involvement
and can strengthen the effect of an intervention on health outcomes that is provided via an …

Non-adherence to a treatment plan recommended by the therapist is a key cause of the
increasing rate of chronic medical conditions globally. The therapist-patient therapeutic …

This paper investigates how a virtual human's persuasion attempts influence the user's
intentions to perform the recommended behaviors using the Theory of Planned Behavior …

This paper outlines the design process and challenges of creating a character for our
implementation of an embodied conversational agent (ECA), specifically integrating diverse …

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 …