At the end of April, we presented our work on people's attitudes toward a virtual smoking cessation coach at Persuasive Technology 2023 in Eindhoven!

Based on a longitudinal study with more than 500 daily smokers, we analyzed which factors influence people's relationship and willingness to continue working with the text-based virtual coach Sam. Read more in our paper here: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30933-5_17.

This paper is joint work by Nele Albers, Mark Neerincx, Nadyne Aretz, Mahira Ali, Arsen Ekinci, and Willem-Paul Brinkman, based on the analyses Nadyne Aretz and Mahira Ali conducted for their Bachelor's theses at Delft University of Technology.