Alcohol Treatment for Veterans
The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate an animated conversational agent that will talk to patients about their alcohol and substance use while waiting to see their primary care physician. The goal of the project is to inspire users to make healthy behavior change, regarding their alcohol consumption, through counseling.
Publications
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User Gaze Behavior while Discussing Substance Use with a Virtual Agent
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
Zhou, S, Bickmore, T, Rubin, A, Yeksigian, C, Sawdy, M and Simon, S (2018) -
Relational Agent to Provide Alcohol Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care: Design and Preliminary Results
Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) annual meeting
Sawdy, M., Yeksigian, C., Zhou, S., Bickmore, T., Simon, S., Rubin, A. (2018) -
A Relational Agent for Alcohol Misuse Screening and Intervention in Primary Care
CHI'17 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (2017)
Zhou, S., Bickmore, T., Rubin, A., Yeksigian, K., Lippin-Foster, R., Heilman, M., Simon, S. (to appear) - A Pilot Study of a Computer-Based Relational Agent to Screen for Substance-Use Problems in Primary Care. Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting (abstract). Checchi, K., McNair, S., Rubin, A., Marcello, T., Bickmore, T., Simon, S. (2013)