Toward Conducting Motivational Interviewing with an On-Demand Clinician Avatar for Tailored Health Behavior Change Interventions

Christine Lisetti; Ugan  Yasavur; Ubbo Visser; Naphtali Rishe

5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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Toward Conducting Motivational Interviewing with an On-Demand Clinician Avatar for Tailored Health Behavior Change Interventions

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246078,
    author={Christine Lisetti and Ugan  Yasavur and Ubbo Visser and Naphtali Rishe},
    title={Toward Conducting Motivational Interviewing with an On-Demand Clinician Avatar for Tailored Health Behavior Change Interventions},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={motivational interviewing avatars embodied-conversational agents dialog-based system; computer-based behavior change interventions},
    doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246078}
}

Christine Lisetti
Ugan Yasavur
Ubbo Visser
Naphtali Rishe
Year: 2012
Toward Conducting Motivational Interviewing with an On-Demand Clinician Avatar for Tailored Health Behavior Change Interventions
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246078

Christine Lisetti¹^,*, Ugan Yasavur¹, Ubbo Visser², Naphtali Rishe¹

1: Florida International University
2: University of Miami

*Contact email: lisetti@cis.fiu.edu

Abstract

In this article we describe work-in-progress about the development of avatar-based personalized assistants that can delivered motivational interviewing health behavior change interventions, tailored to its specific users Our approach combines the latest progress in Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), believable agents, and dialog systems. We discuss how we use dif- ferent platforms to aim at providing accessibility of personalized health assistant, anytime anywhere.

Keywords: motivational interviewing avatars embodied-conversational agents dialog-based system; computer-based behavior change interventions

Published: 2012-04-17
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246078