“I felt her company”: A qualitative study on factors affecting closeness and emotional support seeking with an embodied conversational agent

2022/01/02 by Kate Loveys, Catherine Hiko, Mark Sagar +2 · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aging and Gerontology Research #Digital Mental Health Interventions #Technology Use by Older Adults

paper · doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102771

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