A5072267831- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- AI in Service Interactions
- BRCA gene mutations in cancer
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Multimedia Communication and Technology
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Social Media in Health Education
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Coaching Methods and Impact
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
University of Twente
2018-2025
Roessingh Research and Development
2018-2022
Embodied conversational agents may be used to engage users in adopting eHealth applications. The aim of this research is investigate which design features establish a positive first impression an agent context. A set eight static images, different age, gender and role, were subjected testing online questionnaire. Respondents (n = 155) selected their preferred rated the characteristics – friendliness, expertise, reliability, involvement authority likeliness following agent's advice for all...
Embodied conversational agents are often included in health behaviour change applications as intelligent virtual coaches. A major challenge their development is tailoring coaching dialogues to user profiles. Agents should collect information about the and consequently adapt strategy that guides interactions. Previous research discovered relations between users' motivation profiles potential effective strategies. In current paper, we describe an experiment with multiple tests if users certain...
With the rise in human life expectancy, prevalence of chronic disease has increased significantly. Adopting a healthy lifestyle can decrease risk disease. Virtual coaching systems help older adults adopt lifestyle.AimThe primary objective this study was to assess use, user experience and potential health effects conversational agent-based eHealth platform (Council Coaches) implemented real-world setting among adults.An observational cohort conducted with aged 55 years or Netherlands....
A modern way of life needs a coaching.Despite the proliferation ICT solutions for personalized health care, there is still no easy to provide older adults with integrated coaching services.In this paper we introduce concept Council Coaches -a radically new virtual based on multiple autonomous, embodied coaches, which form together personal council that fulfills in an way.In concept, takes open dialog clients co-construct selected number coaches their own plans go healthier lifestyle.Virtual...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) can be included in health coaching applications as virtual coaches. The engagement with these coaches could improved by presenting users tailored dialogues. In this article, we investigate if the suggestion of an automatically topic ECA leads to higher user and thus longer sessions interaction.A Micro-Randomized Trial (MRT) was conducted which two types interaction were compared: (a) coach suggests a relevant discuss, (b) asks select from set options....
Conversational agents (CAs) are often included as virtual coaches in eHealth applications. Tailoring conversations with these to the individual user can increase effectiveness of coaching. An improvement for this tailoring process could be (automatically) tailor conversation at topic level. In article, we describe design and evaluation a blueprint model use implementation such selection.First, constructed by extracting actions from literature that CA coach perform. We divided groups labeled...
The development of applications with intelligent virtual agents (IVA) often comes integration multiple complex components. In this article we present the Agents United Platform: an open source platform that researchers and developers can use as a starting point to setup their own multi-IVA applications.
Digital interventions are potentially promising to improve accessibility and efficiency of genetic counselling services. However, current literature on stakeholder perspectives towards digital tools for cascade testing is limited. Therefore, this focus-group study aimed gain insights into the attitude probands, at-risk relatives (ARR), healthcare professionals (HCP) innovations assistance with both pre-test post-test in cardiogenetics. We conducted seven online focus-groups, which where...
Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic condition that highly prevalent in the geriatric population.Self-management plays key role management of this condition.Leading an active lifestyle and having healthy meal are cornerstones managing condition.Now with advancement Information Communication Technology (ICT), continuous proactive care from affected individual's side possible.A change behaviour would be beneficial pursuing physical activity adopting diet.This paper focuses on providing dialogue...
<ns3:p>Health coaching applications can include (embodied) conversational agents as coaches. The development of these requires an interdisciplinary cooperation between eHealth application developers, interaction designers and domain experts. Therefore, proper dialogue authoring tools to integrate dialogues in a agent system are essential the process creating successful agent-based applications. However, we found no existing open source, easy-to-use that support multidisciplinary development....
Abstract Language resources for studying doctor–patient interaction are rare, primarily due to the ethical issues related recording real medical consultations. Rarer still that involve more than one healthcare professional in consultation with a patient, despite many chronic conditions requiring multiple areas of expertise effective treatment. In this paper, we present design, construction and output Patient Consultation Corpus , multimodal corpus simulated consultations between patient...
This paper presents progress and challenges in developing a platform for multi-character, argumentation based, interaction with group of virtual coaches healthcare advice promotion healthy behaviours. Several arise the development such platform, e.g., choosing most effective way utilising between multiple perspectives, handling presentation these perspectives finally, personalisation adaptation to user types. In this paper, we present three main recognized, show how aim address these.
ABSTRACT Introduction The present uptake of predictive genetic counselling among at-risk relatives (ARRs) for cardiogenetic diseases is suboptimal with 40-50% ARRs being tested after one to three years post- disclosure. Digital technologies are increasingly proposed improve accessibility, efficiency, and and, if desired, testing. Therefore, DNA- poli was developed: a digital platform providing family communication support pre- post-test ARRs. online DNA-poli aims decrease the threshold seek...