Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of Relational Agents for Health Counseling

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  • Langxuan Yin
  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Donna Byron
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Computer-based systems for health education and behavior change are becoming widely used in health care, but systems targeting specific cultures other than Anglo-Americans are few. We describe our methodology and experiences adapting a conversational health counseling agent for older Latino adults, the implications for automated patient-facing health systems, and directions of future research. ACM Classification

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تاریخ انتشار 2010