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Remeijsen, Pascal (author)
Virtual cognitions are simulated inner thoughts, which are presented as a voice over. Previous research has shown the ability of virtual cognitions to increase the self-efficacy and knowledge of the users. When presenting such VR systems to users, having the VR system adapt to the user can improve their efficacy. For instance, by using eye-gaze...
master thesis 2023
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Luijendijk, Robert (author)
In this study we let police officers interact with conversational agents during specific scenarios. These scenarios are focused on difficult situations that can happen during a day of work. This is done to get to know what is needed to better help police officers with a conversational agent. <br/>We found five different themes that could improve...
master thesis 2023
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Cromjongh, Robin (author)
Police officers are exposed to many potentially traumatising and stressful situations, but they do not always find the right mental health help they need. In this thesis, conversational agent Robyn is developed to help officers keep an eye on their mental well-being and find help when needed. An evaluation approach is also presented. The...
master thesis 2022
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Omar Samir Abdelmoaty Mostafa Sheasha, Omar (author)
A virtual coach, Sam, was created by the Perfect Fit project to aid users in establishing a foundation to stop smoking via the means of making them more physically active. Data from 500 users had been collected from them during stages which start with a pre-screening phase until a post-questionnaire phase. In the latter stage, they provided a...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Aretz, Nadyne (author)
The increase in health problems due to smoking or lack of physical activity has created the incentive to develop a virtual coach to help people with smoking cessation and increase physical activity. In this study, a mixed-methods analysis (thematic analysis, quantitative analysis, and a literature study) was carried out to find out what the...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Ekinci, Arsen (author)
As the awareness of the risks of smoking tobacco increased, usage declined as people started to attempt to quit smoking more. Currently, a wide variety of mobile health (mHealth) applications focused on smoking cessation exist, however users commonly quit these applications over time. In the case of Sam, a conversational agent that plays the...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Ali, Mahira (author)
Seeing the virtual coach as a friend is beneficial as it increases the motivation, confidence, and perseverance of the accompanying. Here, an investigation has taken place to what characteristics the virtual coach must possess to establish this friendly relationship. Thus, the main research question is: What are the reasons for seeing the...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Dechering, Jaap (author)
As guided interventions are seen as more effective compared to unguided interventions and because the use of eHealth applications is rising over the years, the need to study the effects of a virtual coach as a substitute for guided interventions was created. A virtual coach does not cost as much time and money as a real coach and would thus be...
bachelor thesis 2022
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Hizli, Beyza (author)
Lack of physical activity is one of the main risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases. Although most people are aware of the risks of this poor health behavior, they have a hard time improving this behavior. Goal-setting is an effective step in the process of changing behavior. It can motivate a person and help them to remain...
master thesis 2022
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Antoniades, Alkis (author)
Smoking is a leading risk factor negatively impacting the health of people, not only those partaking in it first-hand, but also to those around them. Different methods are available to assist people with quitting smoking, with various degrees of effectiveness. Researchers developing smoking cessation approaches would like to have controlled...
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Ghantasala, Ramya (author)
A significant cardiovascular health risk is insufficient physical activity. The World Health Organization recommends 150 minutes of strenuous physical activity every week. Inadequate physical activity increases the risk of chronic diseases and other health conditions like cholesterol and obesity. This thesis researches the role of data...
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Grundmann, Sharon (author)
Around the world, child helplines through their services provide a safe and confidential space for children to be heard and empowered. The Dutch Kindertelefoon is one of such helplines providing counselling services to children via call and chat all year round. In this thesis, we explore the design of a conversational agent for training...
master thesis 2022
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Chen, Siyu (author)
Suicide prevention is an important global topic, since suicide is being a worldwide serious health issue for decades. In the meantime, people start to pay more attention to mental health issues and Artificial Intelligence is developed and applied in many different fields. Recently, there are many studies been done on using Conversational Agents...
master thesis 2021
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Adriaanse, P.E.A. (author)
With the current fast paced growth in the number of devices connected to the internet, many of these having limited computational capability, security concerns are of increasing importance. To meet the necessity of providing secure encryption to constrained devices many lightweight cryptographic schemes have been developed. This paper provides a...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Zhang, Mirijam (author)
Schema therapy is a type of psychological treatment for people suffering from personality disorders. A schema is a core psychological state of mind that influences external behaviour through the development of coping styles. Current schema therapy is time inefficient and human-processed. Enabling automatic schema classification helps the overall...
bachelor thesis 2021
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O'Dwyer Wha Binda, Jahson (author)
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of patients for issues relating to mental illness. To this effect to help with this increase, schema mode assessment through a conversation agent is being used to conduct schema therapy, a form of psychological treatment. To train such an agent, training data labeled by humans is necessary...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Park, Jeongwoo (author)
In recent years, there has been an increasing number of patients with mental disorders. A conversational agent is being developed to ensure an easier diagnosis based on the chat between a patient and the agent. The objective of this research is to assess how well Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifies text into its corresponding schema, which...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Lam, Jimmy (author)
Schema therapy is a physiological treatment technique for mental health issues. Based on the thoughts and behaviour, patients are classified to a schema mode which represents their current state of mind. Automatically classifying these thoughts and behaviours could improve detection of potential mental health issues as well as provide better and...
bachelor thesis 2021
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Han, Budi (author)
Personality disorders affect 1 in 7 adults reducing their quality of life. Schema-focused therapy (SFT) has become very popular in Psychotherapy in the treatment of personality disorders (PD), unfortunately there is still in increasing societal need for such mental healthcare. Automation in the assessment of SFT allows for Ecological Momentary...
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Allaart, David (author)
Schema therapy is a psychotherapy for treatment of personality disorders and other psychological disorders. An important element of schema therapy is determining a patient's schema modes, a concept central to deciding the treatment approach. The objective of this work was to evaluate whether assessment of these schema modes is possible through a...
master thesis 2021
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