Towards Resistance Detection in Health Behavior Change Dialogue Systems
Description:
One of the challenges fairly common in motivational interviewing is patient resistance to health behavior change. Hence, automated dialog systems aimed at counseling patients need to be capable of detecting resistance and appropriately altering dialog. This thesis focusses primarily on the development of such a system for automatic identification of patient resistance to behavioral change. This enables the dialogue system to direct the discourse towards a more agreeable ground and helping the p…
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Date:
August 2015
Creator:
Sarma, Bandita
Partner:
UNT Libraries