ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies
Maria Jose Galvez Trigo, Martin Porcheron, Joy Egede, Joel E. Fischer, Adrian Hazzard, Chris Greenhalgh, Edgar Bodiaj, Michel Valstar · 2021
We present ALTCAI, a Wizard of Oz Embodied Conversational Agent that has been developed to explore the use of interactive agents as an effective and engaging tool for delivering health and well-being advice to expectant and nursing mothers in Nigeria. This paper briefly describes the motivation and context for its creation, ALTCAI’s various components, and presents a discussion on its adaptability and potential uses in other contexts, as well as on potential future work on extending its functionality.