2019/04/26 by Ahmed Fadhil, Fadhil, Ahmed, Gianluca Schiavo +3
Computer Science · Health Professions · Psychology · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Digital Mental Health Interventions #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction #Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1904.11961
openalex publication_date 2019/04/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Poor lifestyle represents a health risk factor and is the leading cause of morbidity and chronic conditions. The impact of poor lifestyle can be significantly altered by individual behavior change. Although the current shift in healthcare towards a long lasting modifiable behavior, however, with increasing caregiver workload and individuals' continuous needs of care, there is a need to ease caregiver's work while ensuring continuous interaction with users. This paper describes the design and validation of CoachAI, a conversational agent assisted health coaching system to support health intervention delivery to individuals and groups. CoachAI instantiates a text based healthcare chatbot system that bridges the remote human coach and the users. This research provides three main contributions to the preventive healthcare and healthy lifestyle promotion: (1) it presents the conversational agent to aid the caregiver; (2) it aims to decrease caregiver's workload and enhance care given to users, by handling (automating) repetitive caregiver tasks; and (3) it presents a domain independent mobile health conversational agent for health intervention delivery. We will discuss our approach and analyze the results of a one month validation study on physical activity, healthy diet and stress management.