@inproceedings{b4b8247e6182494fbff01cf50911d16c,
title = "TAMICA: Tailorable autonomous motivational interviewing conversational agent",
abstract = "With the increased adoption of voice assistants in people's homes such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home, conversational agents (CA) bring numerous opportunities to support health management in everyday settings. We present our ongoing effort on developing the Tailorable Autonomous Motivational Interviewing Conversational Agent (TAMICA). TAMICA incorporates Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques to help parents strategize tailored healthy eating goals for their families. The system is accompanied by a tailoring interface designed for parents to tailor the MI script and the agent's communicative behaviors. We are in the process of recruiting parents of children under the age of 18 to investigate the usability and feasibility of TAMICA. We present the system and the study protocol of this usability and feasibility testing.",
keywords = "Conversational Agents, Health, Motivational Interviewing, VUI",
author = "Diva Smriti and Shin, {Ji Youn} and Munif Mujib and Meghan Colosimo and Kao, {Tsui Sui} and Jake Williams and Jina Huh-Yoo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.; 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2020 ; Conference date: 06-10-2020 Through 08-10-2020",
year = "2020",
month = may,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1145/3421937.3421963",
language = "English",
series = "PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare",
pages = "411--414",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2020",
}