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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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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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Griessmann, C. (author), Hols, J. (author), van der Laan, R. (author)One of the core functionalities of De Energiebespaarders platform, a tech-start-up in the heart of Amsterdam and the company for which this project was done, is the communication with their customers. The company provides a service that connects homeowners with local installers of energy saving products. Their problem was that a lot of time is...bachelor thesis 2016
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Acceptance of a Virtual Coach as Guided Intervention for Smoking Cessation: A Mixed-Methods AnalysisDechering, 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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Tracking the Progress of an Escape Room to Support the Game Host: Computer Science Bachelor's ThesisVeldkamp, Lisette (author), de Bruin, Ege (author), Kroes, Jasper (author), Hurkmans, Robin (author)Escape rooms are multi-player games that contain several puzzles that need to be solved in order to open locked chests and discover new clues, which eventually enables the players to escape the room. While the players are inside the escape room, the game host observes the group through live cameras. When players tend to fail to make it out of...bachelor thesis 2018
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Zaheer, Ashma (author)Helpline counselors can be trained faster using agent-based social skills training systems. These systems utilize conversational agents that simulate interactions with users and provide feedback. This research evaluates the noticeability of behavior changes in such a conversational agent. By examining participants' ability to detect and...bachelor thesis 2023
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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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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...bachelor thesis 2021
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Bokel, Emma (author)The Artificial Social Agent(ASA) questionnaire serves as a tool to assess the interaction between humans and ASA\cite{OGQuestionnaire}. In an effort to increase the number of people who can make use of the questionnaire, previous work has been done to translate this questionnaire to Mandarin Chinese\cite{Chinese}. To increase the number of...bachelor thesis 2023
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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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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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Catarino Antunes, Nuno (author)Agent-based social skills training systems have been gaining attention for their potential to improve social skills development in various contexts. Through a rapid review methodology, data was collected from diverse sources, including company websites and research papers. This study then uses the collected data to categorize 8 commercial...bachelor thesis 2023
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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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Bot, Bernard (author), Lopez Küchlin, Jael (author), van Asten, Timo (author), Ho, Björn (author)Escape rooms are an emerging market. In these physical and mostly group based games, players are locked in a room with the goal to solve puzzles within a certain time limit in order to ’escape’ the room. To make sure players have a pleasurable experience, they are monitored during the game by a so called game master. This person helps players...bachelor thesis 2018
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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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Khodakov, Bolek (author)Humans interact with various Artificial Social Agents (ASAs) on a daily basis. ASAs range from the Honda robot ASIMO to Apple’s Siri. To measure the perception of human-ASA interactions, a standardized questionnaire was created. Yet, this questionnaire was so far only available in English and Chinese. It has been found that culture can affect...bachelor thesis 2023
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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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van Rossum, Alan (author), Elhorst, Wytze (author)Het LUMC, het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, verzocht om een virtuele coach te ontwikkelen voor patiënten met hart- en vaatziekten. De coach zou deze patiënten thuis kunnen helpen om hen aan hun medicatie te houden. Daarvoor zou de patiënt de coach dagelijks kunnen opzoeken om zo feedback en motivatie te ontvangen van de coach. Ook zou de...bachelor thesis 2017
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Al-Kaswan, A. (author), El Attar, B. (author), Wiemers, G. (author), Kronstadt, L.J. (author), d' Abreu de Paulo, G. (author)Women are largely underrepresented in IT, girls’ interest in STEM and IT fields tends to drop throughout secondary education. Educational games are a great tool to change the perception of certain topics, as well as changing the behavior of the players. Thus, this report describes the development of a game to make the field of IT more appealing...bachelor thesis 2020