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Robots in Healthcare (87) Chatbots and Conversational Agents (542)

Published on in Vol 21, No 5 (2019): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/13203, first published .
Psychosocial Health Interventions by Social Robots: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Psychosocial Health Interventions by Social Robots: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Psychosocial Health Interventions by Social Robots: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Authors of this article:

Nicole Lee Robinson1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Timothy Vaughan Cottier2 Author Orcid Image ;   David John Kavanagh2 Author Orcid Image
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