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Chatbots for Health Symposium

Organized at Radboud University on December 10, 2024.


Trying to change a person’s health behaviour is difficult. The services offered by healthcare professionals is proven to be effective, but restricted. Chatbots, as a growing digital technology, on the other hand, hold great promise in supporting this process due to their accessibility, cost-efficiency, and scalability. By incorporating recent insights from the fields of social sciences, humanities, and computational linguistics, we have developed and tested a new generation of chatbots which can engage in long-term motivational interactions in two domains with different social dynamics and complexities: smoking cessation and safe sex promotion.


In light of this, our sHAI group member Erkan Basar organized a symposium about chatbots for health, which aimed to convey the findings and key insights acquired through the research and analysis conducted in the span of the last 4 years. With this we made meaningful contributions to the discussions in the fields of behaviour change, communication, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence.


The symposium began with a short introduction by Tibor Bosse and followed by three presentations, delivered by the project’s PhD candidates — Linwei He, Divyaa Balaji, and Erkan Basar — who have been working collaboratively to develop and evaluate chatbots for smoking cessation and safe sex promotion. The event concluded with a panel discussion, driven by the audience’s thought-provoking questions on the potential and challenges of implementing chatbots in healthcare.


For more information about the event and speakers visit: Organizing Chatbots for Health Symposium | Erkan Basar




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