In Search of Embodied Conversational and Explainable Agents for Health Behaviour Change and Adherence

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

Deborah Richards¹  Amal Abdulrahman¹ 

[1] Department of Computing, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia;

关键词: health behaviour change;    embodied conversational agents;    explainable agents;    working alliance;   

DOI  :  10.3390/mti5090056

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Conversational agents offer promise to provide an alternative to costly and scarce access to human health providers. Particularly in the context of adherence to treatment advice and health behavior change, they can provide an ongoing coaching role to motivate and keep the health consumer on track. Due to the recognized importance of face-to-face communication and establishment of a therapist-patient working alliance as the biggest single predictor of adherence, our review focuses on embodied conversational agents (ECAs) and their use in health and well-being interventions. The article also introduces ECAs who provide explanations of their recommendations, known as explainable agents (XAs), as a way to build trust and enhance the working alliance towards improved behavior change. Of particular promise, is work in which XAs are able to engage in conversation to learn about their user and personalize their recommendations based on their knowledge of the user and then tailor their explanations to the beliefs and goals of the user to increase relevancy and motivation and address possible barriers to increase intention to perform the healthy behavior.

【 授权许可】

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