ArticleJournal of medical systems2017
Embodied Conversational Agents for the Detection and Prevention of Suicidal Behaviour: Current Applications and Open Challenges.
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- Embodied Conversational Agents for Chronic Diseases: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the Current State of Chatbots for Digital Health: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Development and Validation of Conversational Agent to Pregnancy Safe-education.Journal of medical systems · 2023Article
- The use of machine learning to support the therapeutic process - strengths and weaknesses.Postepy psychiatrii neurologii · 2022Review
- Validity of Chatbot Use for Mental Health Assessment: Experimental Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Article
- Enacting 'more-than-human' care: Clients' and counsellors' views on the multiple affordances of chatbots in alcohol and other drug counselling.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Article
- Computer-Assisted Avatar-Based Treatment for Dysfunctional Beliefs in Depressive Inpatients: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Social robots as treatment agents: Pilot randomized controlled trial to deliver a behavior change intervention.Internet interventions · 2020Article
- Assessment of users' acceptability of a mobile-based embodied conversational agent for the prevention and detection of suicidal behaviour.Journal of medical systems · 2019Article
- Promoting Relational Agent for Health Behavior Change in Low and Middle - Income Countries (LMICs): Issues and Approaches.Journal of medical systems · 2019Article
- A Mobile Web App to Improve Health Screening Uptake in Men (ScreenMen): Utility and Usability Evaluation Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- Key Considerations for Incorporating Conversational AI in Psychotherapy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- An Embodied Conversational Agent for Unguided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Preventative Mental Health: Feasibility and Acceptability Pilot Trial.JMIR mental health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are advanced computational interactive interfaces designed with the aim to engage users in the continuous and long-term use of a background application. The advantages and benefits of these agents have been exploited in several e-health systems. One of the medical domains where ECAs are recently applied is to support the detection of symptoms, prevention and treatment of mental health disorders. As ECAs based applications are increasingly used in clinical psychology, and due that one fatal consequence of mental health problems is the commitment of suicide, it is necessary to analyse how current ECAs in this clinical domain support the early detection and prevention of risk situations associated with suicidality. The present work provides and overview of the main features implemented in the ECAs to detect and prevent suicidal behaviours through two scenarios: ECAs acting as virtual counsellors to offer immediate help to individuals in risk; and ECAs acting as virtual patients for learning/training in the identification of suicide behaviours. A literature review was performed to identify relevant studies in this domain during the last decade, describing the main characteristics of the implemented ECAs and how they have been evaluated. A total of six studies were included in the review fulfilling the defined search criteria. Most of the experimental studies indicate promising results, though these types of ECAs are not yet commonly used in routine practice. The identification of some open challenges for the further development of ECAs within this domain is also discussed.
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