ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies

Galvez Trigo, Maria J; Porcheron, Martin; Egede, Joy; Fischer, Joel E.; Hazzard, Adrian; Greenhalgh, Chris; Bodiaj, Edgar; Valstar, Michel

Abstract

We present ALTCAI, a Wizard of Oz Embodied Conversational Agent that has been developed to explore the use of interactive agents as an effective and engaging tool for delivering health and well-being advice to expectant and nursing mothers in Nigeria. This paper briefly describes the motivation and context for its creation, ALTCAI's various components, and presents a discussion on its adaptability and potential uses in other contexts, as well as on potential future work on extending its functionality.

Citation

Galvez Trigo, M. J., Porcheron, M., Egede, J., Fischer, J. E., Hazzard, A., Greenhalgh, C., …Valstar, M. (2021). ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies. In Proceedings of CUI 2021 : Conversational User Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1145/3469595.3469621

• Conference Name: CUI 2021 : Third Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
• Conference Location: Bilbao (online), Spain
• Start Date: Jul 27, 2021
• End Date: Jul 29, 2021
• Acceptance Date: May 14, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jul 27, 2021
• Publication Date: Jul 27, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jun 15, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 27, 2021
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Series Title: ACM In-Cooperation CUI conference
• Book Title: Proceedings of CUI 2021 : Conversational User Interfaces
• Chapter Number: Article no. 26
• ISBN: 9781450389983/21/07
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3469595.3469621
• Keywords: embodied conversational agents, virtual human, wizard of oz
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5687323
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3469595.3469621
• Related Public URLs: https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2021/
• Additional Information: Maria J. Galvez Trigo, Martin Porcheron, Joy Egede, Joel E. Fischer, Adrian Hazzard, Chris Greenhalgh, Edgar Bodiaj, and Michel Valstar. 2021. ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies. In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '21), July 27–29, 2021, Bilbao (online), Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3469595.3469621