Enhancing sentient embodied conversational agents with machine learning

Evaluating the effect of gamification on the deployment of digital cultural probes for children

“…Another issue raised during the evaluation was that mainly during the journalist task children sometimes did not know the meaning of a concept, which they found frustrating. As a result, we are designing a new version of the app that includes an embodied conversational agent, thereby allowing children to ask and talk about CP tasks and energy related concepts [50].…”

Multilingual Conversational Systems to Drive the Collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Integration into Clinical Workflows

“…However, the main challenges for wide adaptation of PGHD in clinical practice include usability (i.e., integration, interoperability with existing EHRs) and sustainable quality of results (i.e., patient motivation and adherence) [21,37] In order to address the interoperability and suitability of the collected resources we delivered a FHIR Methodology. The system presented includes patient/clinician mobile applications, an OHC FHIR server, and the MSN.…”

“…The other challenge related to the integration of PGHD relate to the patient's perspective; i.e., long-term sustainability and quality of collected information [36,37]. Familiarity, perceived complexity, and trustworthiness represent the main drivers of patient adher-ence [38].…”

“…"The self-reporting aspect delivered with the mobile application provides benefits that might otherwise be difficult to obtain" [36]:6689. However, the chatbots have yet to tackle the long-term adherence with sustainable quality of the reported data [37]. In [36], active use of the technology drops after 14 days.…”

“…Instead of delivering merely a chatbot, in the proposed system, an ECA is presented. ECAs can further increase the long-term adherence by engaging with users in more diverse interaction significantly enriched by incorporating non-verbal communication [37]. One of the earliest definitions of ECA is "more or less autonomous and intelligent software entities with an embodiment used to communicate with the user" [39].…”