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Reusable Virtual Coach for Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Coaching

Smoking tobacco and physical inactivity are key preventable behavioural risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Computerised coaching systems can help individuals to modify risky behaviours, thereby preventing CVD. However, most reported eHealth or computerized coaching systems are hard to reuse in slightly different settings. To provide...

Users’ needs for a digital smoking cessation application and how to address them: A mixed-methods study

Background<br/>Despite their increasing prevalence and potential, eHealth applications for behavior change suffer from a lack of adherence and from dropout. Advances in virtual coach technology provide new opportunities to improve this. However, these applications still do not always offer what people need. We, therefore, need a better...

Using a Virtual Coach to Quit Smoking: 14 Themes for User Needs

Adaptive Data-Driven Persuasive Communication for a Conversational Agent to Support Behavior Change

A human therapist continuously adapts how they persuade a client to adhere to a behavior change intervention based on theoretical expertise, past experience with the client as well as other clients, and the client's current situation. We aim at incorporating these elements into the persuasive communication of a conversational agent that acts as...

Perfect Fit: een identiteitsgebaseerde virtuele coach die ondersteunt bij stoppen met roken en meer bewegen

Duurzame gedragsverandering is moeilijk, zelfs wanneer het huidige gedrag een groot risico vormt voor de gezondheid. Gedragsverandering wordt gemakkelijker als het nieuwe gedrag past bij hoe een individu zichzelf ziet (identiteit). Virtuele coaching is veelbelovend om gedrags- en identiteitsverandering te ondersteunen, omdat het altijd...

Virtual Coaches for Older Adults' Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

Virtual Coaches, also known as e-coaches, are a disruptive technology in healthcare. Indeed, among other usages, they might provide cost-effective solutions for increasing human wellbeing in different domains, such as physical, nutritional, cognitive, social, and emotional. This paper presents a systematic review of virtual coaches...

Computer-Based Social Anxiety Regulation in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Social anxiety disorder (SAD), commonly referred to social phobia, is one of the most an immense and unreasonable fear of social interaction. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is the most thoroughly studied nonpharmacologic approach to the treatment of SAD patients. In CBT, patients are gradually, in <i>vivo</i>, exposed to anxiety-provoking...

Talk and Tools: The best of both worlds in mobile user interfaces for E-coaching

In this paper, a user interface paradigm, called Talk-and-Tools, is presented for automated e-coaching. The paradigm is based on the idea that people interact in two ways with their environment: symbolically and physically. The main goal is to show how the paradigm can be applied in the design of interactive systems that offer an acceptable...