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HCI designers have made significant advancements in the development of health agents. Although these developments are often technologically impressive, social scientific research provides some contraindications. Here, we review relevant social scientific research on tailoring, customization, agency, and realism that provides guidelines on how to design health agents and avatars to maximize persuasive outcomes in health contexts.
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Fox, J., Ahn, S.J.(. (2014). Recommendations for Designing Maximally Effective and Persuasive Health Agents. In: Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., Sidner, C. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_21
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