We discuss issues in designing virtual humans for applications that require long-term
voluntary use and the problem of maintaining engagement with users over time. Concepts and …

We discuss the ethical and practical issues involved in developing virtual humans that
relate personal, fictitious, human autobiographical stories (“back stories”) to their users. We …

In this paper we describe a prototype of a serious game designed to improve hospital patients'
confidence in managing their hospital stay. We present findings of an evaluation of our …

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming the way people generate, explore, and
engage with content. We study how we can develop LLM applications for online social networks…

We present an empirical study on the impact of linguistic and cultural tailoring of a conversational
agent on its ability to change user attitudes. We designed two bilingual (English and …

We describe two empirical studies of how professionals explain documents to lay clients who
have varying levels of knowledge about the domain under discussion. We find that hand …

Cultural congruity between patients and healthcare providers has been demonstrated to be
an important factor in maximizing the efficacy of healthcare. Similarly, the targeting and …

A larger number of games for health were developed over the past two decades to provide
an engaging way of health care and behavior change intervention. However, many problems …

This paper presents an interactive narrative framework we have designed for games that
promote health behavior change. The framework aims to address two key issues: player …

In this work, we propose integrating a drama manager into a visual novel to guide both
storytelling and health intervention. We discuss certain narrative structures that can be used to …