Automated interventions for multiple health behaviors using conversational agents

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 142-148

  Bickmore, Timothy W ^a   Schulman, Daniel ^a   Sidner, Candace ^b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral informatics; Dialog system; Diet promotion; Embodied conversational agent; Fruit and vegetable consumption promotion; Health behavior change intervention; Ontology; Physical activity promotion; Relational agent; Walking promotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SCAN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNATIONAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PORTION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SIMULATION; VEGETABLE; WALKING; WEIGHT CHANGE;

BEHAVIORAL INFORMATICS; DIALOG SYSTEM; DIET PROMOTION; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CONSUMPTION PROMOTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE INTERVENTION; ONTOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROMOTION; RELATIONAL AGENT; WALKING PROMOTION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; VEGETABLES; WALKING;

EID: 84880329815     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.05.011     Document Type: Article

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