User modeling and adaptation in health promotion dialogs with an animated character

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 514-531

  Rosis, Fiorella de ^a   Novielli, Nicole ^a   Carofiglio, Valeria ^a   Cavalluzzi, Addolorata ^a   De Carolis, Berardina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Embodied conversational agents; Healthy eating dialog; User and agent modeling; Wizard of Oz studies

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; HEALTHY EATING DIALOGS; USER AND AGENT MODELING; WIZARD OF OZ STUDIES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE; NUTRITION; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; DIET; EATING; EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33748168229     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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