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Chatbots and Conversational Agents (627) mHealth for Wellness, Behavior Change and Prevention (3097) Web-based and Mobile Health Interventions (3629) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (657) Formative Studies and eHealth/mHealth Development (543) Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism Prevention and Recovery (318) Usability of Virtual Reality Simulations (61) Usability Evaluation Case Studies (224) Usability of Apps and User Perceptions of mHealth (1085) Speech and Phonetics in Verbal Protocols (Think Aloud, Recall, and Explanation Tasks) (94)

Published on in Vol 23, No 9 (2021): September

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/25837, first published .
Development, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Utility of an Expressive Speech-Enabled Digital Health Agent to Deliver Online, Brief Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Misuse: Descriptive Study

Development, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Utility of an Expressive Speech-Enabled Digital Health Agent to Deliver Online, Brief Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Misuse: Descriptive Study

Development, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Utility of an Expressive Speech-Enabled Digital Health Agent to Deliver Online, Brief Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Misuse: Descriptive Study

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Maya Boustani1 Author Orcid Image ;   Stephanie Lunn2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ubbo Visser3 Author Orcid Image ;   Christine Lisetti2 Author Orcid Image
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