Tailoring coaching strategies to users’ motivation in a multi-agent health coaching application

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Highlights：

• Tailoring of coaching strategies is explored in a multi-agent application.

• Personal motivation to live healthy can be used to tailor coaching strategies.

• People can be both intrinsically motivated and externally regulated.

• Participants' age and gender influence the appreciation of coaching strategies.

• Likeability of the presenting agent did not influence strategy appreciation.

摘要

•Tailoring of coaching strategies is explored in a multi-agent application.•Personal motivation to live healthy can be used to tailor coaching strategies.•People can be both intrinsically motivated and externally regulated.•Participants' age and gender influence the appreciation of coaching strategies.•Likeability of the presenting agent did not influence strategy appreciation.

论文关键词：Embodied conversational agents,Health behaviour change,Coaching strategies,Tailoring,Motivation

论文评审过程：Received 14 April 2020, Revised 17 October 2020, Accepted 16 March 2021, Available online 31 March 2021, Version of Record 10 April 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106787