Doctoral Meeting: 'Designing a Conversational Agent to Facilitate Health Behaviour Change'

Changing health behavior is a difficult process that usually requires individuals to change their daily routines and habits. As such it is not only challenging to begin change, but also to maintain it and stay motivated.

This project revolves around designing a conversational agent to facilitate behavior change by combining psychological frameworks with data science. Specifically, the focus lies on the potential of natural language processing and generation techniques to assess and increase an individual's motivation and ability to change.