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ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies

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Maria J. Galvez Trigo,

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CUI '21: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

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We present ALTCAI, a Wizard of Oz Embodied Conversational Agent that has been developed to explore the use of interactive agents as an effective and engaging tool for delivering health and well-being advice to expectant and nursing mothers in Nigeria. This paper briefly describes the motivation and context for its creation, ALTCAI’s various components, and presents a discussion on its adaptability and potential uses in other contexts, as well as on potential future work on extending its functionality.

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Rashik MJasim MKucher KSarvghad AMahyar N(2024)Beyond Text and Speech in Conversational Agents: Mapping the Design Space of AvatarsProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3661563(1875-1894)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
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Andersen TNunes FWilcox LCoiera ERogers Y(2023)Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Centred AI in Healthcare: Challenges Appearing in the WildACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/358996130:2(1-12)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589961

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Rashik MJasim MKucher KSarvghad AMahyar N(2024)Beyond Text and Speech in Conversational Agents: Mapping the Design Space of AvatarsProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3661563(1875-1894)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3661563
Andersen TNunes FWilcox LCoiera ERogers Y(2023)Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Centred AI in Healthcare: Challenges Appearing in the WildACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/358996130:2(1-12)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589961

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