Features for culturally appropriate avatars for behavior-change promotion in at-risk populations

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 144, Issue , 2009, Pages 22-26

  Lisetti, Christine ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

At risk populations; Computer assisted health interventions; Cultural avatars; Embodied conversational agents (ECAs)

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; ORTHOTICS;

AT-RISK POPULATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CULTURAL AVATARS; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; FACE TO FACE; HEALTH INTERVENTIONS; HEALTH PROMOTION;

HEALTH RISKS;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS;

EID: 71749095591     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-017-9-22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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