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Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Egede, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Hazzard, A., Porcheron, M., Bodiaj, E., Fischer, J. E., …Valstar, M. (2021). Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study. In IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (112-119). https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478350

Access to healthcare advice is crucial to promote healthy societies. Many factors shape how access might be constrained, such as economic status, education or, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, remote consultations with health practitioners. Our wo... Read More about Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study.

ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies (2021)
Conference Proceeding
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

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