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title = "Towards Development of an Automated Health Coach",
author = "Hsu, Leighanne and
Marquez Hernandez, Rommy and
McCoy, Kathleen and
Decker, Keith and
Vemuri, Ajith and
Dominick, Greg and
Heintzelman, Megan",
editor = "Krahmer, Emiel and
McCoy, Kathy and
Reiter, Ehud",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Waterville, Maine, USA and virtual meeting",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.nlg4health-1.4",
pages = "27--39",
abstract = "Human health coaching has been established as an effective intervention for improving clients{'} health, but it is restricted in scale due to the availability of coaches and finances of the clients. We aim to build a scalable, automated system for physical activity coaching that is similarly grounded in behavior change theories. In this paper, we present our initial steps toward building a flexible system that is capable of carrying out a natural dialogue for goal setting as a health coach would while also offering additional support through just-in-time adaptive interventions. We outline our modular system design and approach to gathering and analyzing data to incrementally implement such a system.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Towards Development of an Automated Health Coach
%A Hsu, Leighanne
%A Marquez Hernandez, Rommy
%A McCoy, Kathleen
%A Decker, Keith
%A Vemuri, Ajith
%A Dominick, Greg
%A Heintzelman, Megan
%Y Krahmer, Emiel
%Y McCoy, Kathy
%Y Reiter, Ehud
%S Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Waterville, Maine, USA and virtual meeting
%F hsu-etal-2022-towards
%X Human health coaching has been established as an effective intervention for improving clients’ health, but it is restricted in scale due to the availability of coaches and finances of the clients. We aim to build a scalable, automated system for physical activity coaching that is similarly grounded in behavior change theories. In this paper, we present our initial steps toward building a flexible system that is capable of carrying out a natural dialogue for goal setting as a health coach would while also offering additional support through just-in-time adaptive interventions. We outline our modular system design and approach to gathering and analyzing data to incrementally implement such a system.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.nlg4health-1.4
%P 27-39
Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Development of an Automated Health Coach](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nlg4health-1.4) (Hsu et al., NLG4Health 2022)
ACL
- Leighanne Hsu, Rommy Marquez Hernandez, Kathleen McCoy, Keith Decker, Ajith Vemuri, Greg Dominick, and Megan Heintzelman. 2022. Towards Development of an Automated Health Coach. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Generation in Healthcare, pages 27–39, Waterville, Maine, USA and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.