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Alcohol Treatment for Veterans

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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

  • Development and evaluation of a relational agent to assist with screening and intervention for unhealthy drinking in primary care

    Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science

      Authors:
    • J Brady
    • N Livingston
    • M Sawdy
    • K Yeksigian
    • S Zhou
    • T Bickmore
    • S Simon
    • A Rubin

    2023

  • Computerized Relational Agent to Deliver Alcohol Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care: a Randomized Clinical Trial

    Journal of General Internal Medicine

      Authors:
    • Amy Rubin
    • Nicholas Livingston
    • Julianne Brady
    • Elise Hocking
    • Timothy Bickmore
    • Molly Sawdy
    • Nancy Kressin
    • richard Saitz
    • Steven Simon

    2021

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  • Substance Use Screening using Virtual Agents: Towards Automated Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

    ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

      Authors:
    • Timothy Bickmore
    • Amy Rubin
    • Steven Simon

    2020

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  • Randomized Controlled Trial of a Relational Agent to Reduce Risky Alcohol Use

    2019 Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting

      Authors:
    • Simon, S
    • Livingston, N
    • Sawdy, M
    • Yeksigian, K
    • Bickmore, T
    • Zhou, S
    • Saitz, R
    • Kressin, N
    • Rubin, A

    2019

  • 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

      Authors:
    • Sawdy, M.
    • Yeksigian, C.
    • Zhou, S.
    • Bickmore, T.
    • Simon, S.
    • Rubin, A.

    2018

  • User Gaze Behavior while Discussing Substance Use with a Virtual Agent

    International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

      Authors:
    • Zhou, S.
    • Bickmore, T.
    • Rubin, A.
    • Yeksigian, C.
    • Sawdy, M.
    • Simon, S.

    2018

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  • A Relational Agent for Alcohol Misuse Screening and Intervention in Primary Care

    CHI'17 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (2017)

      Authors:
    • Zhou, S.
    • Bickmore, T.
    • Rubin, A.
    • Yeksigian, K.
    • Foster, R.
    • Heilman, M.
    • Simon, S.

    2017

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  • 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)

      Authors:
    • Checchi, K.
    • McNair, S.
    • Rubin, A.
    • Marcello, T.
    • Bickmore, T.
    • Simon, S.

    2013