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This chapter introduces synthetic character technologies, surveys the broad range of health-related applications using synthetic characters, and addresses in detail the development and usage of health-related synthetic character applications.
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Hubal, R., Kizakevich, P., Furberg, R. (2007). Synthetic Characters in Health-related Applications. In: Vaidya, S., Jain, L.C., Yoshida, H. (eds) Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare-2. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72375-2_2
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