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A Conversational Model for Health Promotion on the World Wide Web

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMDM 1999)

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In this paper we describe a new approach to computer-based health promotion, based on a conversational model. We base our model on a collection of human-human email dialogues concerning healthy nutrition. Our system uses a database of tips and small pieces of advice, organised so that support for the advice, and arguments against the advice may be explored. The technical framework and initial evaluation results are described.

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  1. Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, UK

    Alison Cawsey

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool

    Floriana Grasso

  3. Department of Public Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow

    Ray Jones

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  1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Werner Horn

  2. Department of Medicine and Computer Science, Stanford University, 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305-5479, USA

    Yuval Shahar

  3. Department of Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden

    Greger Lindberg

  4. Department of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7D, DK-9000, Aalborg, Denmark

    Steen Andreassen

  5. School of Public Policy, University College London, 29/30 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9EZ, UK

    Jeremy Wyatt

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Cawsey, A., Grasso, F., Jones, R. (1999). A Conversational Model for Health Promotion on the World Wide Web. In: Horn, W., Shahar, Y., Lindberg, G., Andreassen, S., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIMDM 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48720-4_42

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