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Adherence to medical treatment advice is necessary to gain the intended improvement in patient outcomes. This paper looks at how empathic dialogues delivered by a relational agent can build an ongoing therapeutic alliance with the patient with the intention of improving access and adherence to the treatment advice. We present a case study and design currently under development for the domain of pediatric incontinence.
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Baker, S., Richards, D., Caldwell, P. (2014). Relational Agents to Promote eHealth Advice Adherence. In: Pham, DN., Park, SB. (eds) PRICAI 2014: Trends in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8862. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13560-1_87
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