Attitudes Toward a Virtual Smoking Cessation Coach: Relationship and Willingness to Continue

Authors: Albers, N., Neerincx, M. A., Aretz, N. L., Ali, M., Ekinci, A., and Brinkman, W-P. In: Meschtscherjakov, A., Midden, C., Ham, J. (eds) Persuasive Technology. Persuasive 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13832. Springer, Cham.

Experience Familiarity of Personalized Environments and Virtual Interface Usability in Virtual Reality

Link to OSF-preregistration for the study underlying the MSc. thesis by Alkis Antoniades. Year: 2021.

Goal-setting dialogue for physical activity with a virtual coach

Link to OSF-preregistration for the study underlying the paper "Setting Physical Activity Goals with a Virtual Coach: Vicarious Experiences, Personalization and Acceptance" as well as the MSc. thesis by Beyza HIzli. Year: 2022.

Perfect Fit - Beliefs about and Competencies Built by Preparatory Activities for Quitting Smoking and Becoming More Physically Active

Link to OSF-preregistration of studies for collecting beliefs about and competencies built by preparatory activities for quitting smoking. Authors: Albers, N., and Brinkman, W-P. Year: 2022.

Perfect Fit - Experiment to Gather Data for and Test a Reinforcement Learning-Approach for Motivating People

Link to OSF pre-registration of study in which participants interacted with the text-based virtual coach Sam in 5 sessions. In each session, Sam proposed a new preparatory activity for quitting smoking and persuaded people to do them. Year: 2021.

Persuading to Prepare for Quitting Smoking with a Virtual Coach: Using States and User Characteristics to Predict Behavior

Authors: Albers, N., Neerincx, M. A., and Brinkman, W.-P. Year: 2023. Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023)