Building an on-demand avatar-based health intervention for behavior change

Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-25

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 175-180

  Lisetti, Christine ^a   Yasavur, Ugan ^a   De Leon, Claudia ^a   Amini, Reza ^a   Rishe, Napthali ^a   Visser, Ubbo ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; HEALTH INTERVENTIONS; HEALTH SYSTEMS; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEM PROTOTYPE; USER STUDY; USERS' ACCEPTANCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

HEALTH;

EID: 84865035748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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