[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing the acceptability, acceptance, and adoption of conversational agents in health care: integrative review

M Wutz, M Hermes, V Winter… - Journal of medical Internet …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Conversational agents (CAs), also known as chatbots, are digital dialog
systems that enable people to have a text-based, speech-based, or nonverbal conversation …

[HTML][HTML] Embodied conversational agents for chronic diseases: sco** review

Z Jiang, X Huang, Z Wang, Y Liu, L Huang… - Journal of Medical Internet …, 2024 - jmir.org
Background Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are computer-generated animated
humanlike characters that interact with users through verbal and nonverbal behavioral cues …

[HTML][HTML] Smartphone-based virtual agents to help individuals with sleep concerns during COVID-19 confinement: feasibility study

P Philip, L Dupuy, CM Morin, E de Sevin… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background The COVID-19 crisis and consequent confinement restrictions have caused
significant psychosocial stress and reports of sleep complaints, which require early …

Close encounters with the virtual kind: Defining a human-virtual agent coexistence framework

J Arsenyan, A Mirowska, A Piepenbrink - Technological Forecasting and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Virtual agent research has evolved into a substantial body of work, albeit one with a
fragmented structure and overlap**, and at times inconsistent, definitions and results. The …

A review of virtual assistants' characteristics: Recommendations for designing an optimal human–machine cooperation

M Gilles, E Bevacqua - Journal of Computing and …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Designed to improve human–machine interactions, virtual agents and particularly virtual
assistants (VAs) are spreading in our daily lives. Presenting a very wide variety of …

Smartphone‐based virtual agents and insomnia management: A proof‐of‐concept study for new methods of autonomous screening and management of insomnia …

L Dupuy, CM Morin, E de Sevin… - Journal of Sleep …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Insomnia is the most frequent sleep disorder, and the COVID‐19 crisis has massively
increased its prevalence in the population, due to psychosocial stress or direct viral …

Impact of adaptive multimodal empathic behavior on the user interaction

M Barange, S Rasendrasoa, M Bouabdelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Empathic behavior between humans often has a positive effect, particularly in healthcare,
since it facilitates relationships, improves engagement, and reduces stress and anxiety …

Would You Go to a Virtual Doctor? A Systematic Literature Review on User Preferences for Embodied Virtual Agents in Healthcare

L Kruse, J Hertel, F Mostajeran… - … on Mixed and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical virtual agents (VAs) hold great potential to support patients in achieving their health
goals, especially at times or in regions where the demand for physiological and …

Depiction of conversational agents as health professionals: a sco** review

AL MacNeill, L MacNeill, S Yi, A Goudreau… - JBI Evidence …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The purpose of this sco** review was to examine the depiction of
conversational agents as health professionals. We identified the professional characteristics …

Measuring the Acceptance of Smart Home-Based Technologies Among the Older Adults: Systematic Literature Review

A Šeme, D Bogataj, B Kerbler - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2024 - Elsevier
The general acceptance of smart home-based technologies among older adults is
investigated in this systematic literature review, aiming to provide a comprehensive …