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Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study

Joy Egede, Maria J. Galvez Trigo, Adrian Hazzard, Martin Porcheron, Edgar Bodiaj, Joel E. Fischer, Chris Greenhalgh, Michel Valstar

IVA 2021: 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Pages: 112 - 119

Swansea University Author: Martin Porcheron

DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3472306.3478350

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Access to healthcare advice is crucial to promote healthy societies. Many factors shape how access might be constrained, such as economic status, education or, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, remote consultations with health practitioners. Our work focuses on providing pre/post-natal advice to m...

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Published in: IVA 2021: 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8619-7
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2021
Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478350
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