Published on in Vol 23, No 1 (2021): January

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/22919, first published .
Deliberative and Paternalistic Interaction Styles for Conversational Agents in Digital Health: Procedure and Validation Through a Web-Based Experiment

Deliberative and Paternalistic Interaction Styles for Conversational Agents in Digital Health: Procedure and Validation Through a Web-Based Experiment

Deliberative and Paternalistic Interaction Styles for Conversational Agents in Digital Health: Procedure and Validation Through a Web-Based Experiment

Theresa Schachner   1 * , BSc, BA, MSc ;   Christoph Gross   1 * , BSc, MA ;   Andrea Hasl   2, 3 , BBSc, MSc ;   Florian v Wangenheim   1 , Dr ;   Tobias Kowatsch   1, 4 , PhD

1 Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Centre for Digital Health Interventions, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2 Department of Educational Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

3 International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE), Berlin, Germany

4 Centre for Digital Health Interventions, Institute of Technology Management, University of St Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Christoph Gross, BSc, MA
  • Department of Management, Technology, and Economics
  • Centre for Digital Health Interventions
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