An Intelligent Conversational Agent for Promoting Long-Term Health Behavior Change Using Motivational Interviewing.
Daniel Schulman, Timothy Bickmore, Candace L. Sidner · 2011
We present a conversational agent designed as a virtual counselor for health behavior change. The agent incorporates techniques drawn from Motivational Interviewing to enhance client motivation and confidence to change; these techniques are modeled and implemented based on a domain-specific taxonomy of dialogue acts. We discuss the design and preliminary evaluation of the agent.