Research and Projects
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Wearable Exercise Agent A portable exercise counselor that can sense your walking behavior. |
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Virtual Nurse A hospital bedside patient education system for individuals with low health literacy, focused on pre-discharge medication adherence and self-care counseling. |
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Senior Exercise Agent A physical activity intervention for older adults with low health literacy, deployed in a geriatics clinic and designed to sustain long-term adherence. |
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Virtual Laboratory for Studying Human-Computer Relationships A testbed for conducting longitudinal studies in human-computer relationships. |
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Ontology-driven Dialogue for Health Behavior Change Formalization of concepts and techniques in health behavior counseling to enhance re-usability of health behavior change dialogue systems. |
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Medication Adherence Agent A home-based counseling agent to promote antipsychotic medication adherence, designed for patients with Schizophrenia. |
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Weight Loss Agent A home-based Virtual Coach that promotes exercise and healthy eating, and automatically incorporates data wirelessly transmitted from pedometers. |
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Multi-Behavior Change Agent A web-based health counselor agent designed for a year-long intervention, promoting physical activity and ultraviolet radiation avoidance to prevent cancer. |
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Exercise Agent for Older Latino Adults A community center-based exercise promotion agent, linguistically and culturally adapted for a population of Spanish-speaking Latino older adults. |
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Health Document Explanation by Relational Agents Investigation of verbal and nonverbal teaching behaviors that can be used to explain complex health documents to individuals with low health literacy. |
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Relational Guide for Science Museums A relational agent designed for use in a public space (Boston Museum of Science), featuring biometric user identification. |
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Comforting by Relational Agents Investigation of strategies a relational agent can use to calm and comfort users. |