Unaddressed challenges in persuasive dieting chatbots

Simone Balloccu; Ehud Reiter; Matteo G.  Collu; Federico  Sanna; Maurizio Atzori; Manuela  Sanguinetti

doi:10.1145/3450614.3463602

Unaddressed challenges in persuasive dieting chatbots

Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Matteo G. Collu, Federico Sanna, Maurizio Atzori, Manuela Sanguinetti

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Abstract

Diet coaching is a behaviour change task which requires lots of interaction with patients. E-health apps gathered lots of interest in research and, recently, chatbots have been leveraged to address this task, with a focus on persuasion to motivate people towards behaviour change. In this paper, we take a look at current approaches in building persuasive dieting chatbots and expose a number of major unsolved challenges. We motivate them with evidence from previous work and show that current chatbots don’t approach certain scenarios properly, hence limiting their communication and persuasion capabilities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UMAP '21
Subtitle of host publication	Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	392-395
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-8367-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3450614.3463602
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2021
Event	29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: UMAP '21 - Online from Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands Duration: 21 Jun 2021 → 25 Jun 2021 Conference number: 29th https://www.um.org/umap2021/

Conference

Conference	29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Abbreviated title	UMAP '21
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Utrecht
Period	21/06/21 → 25/06/21
Internet address	https://www.um.org/umap2021/

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This research was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No 812882.

Keywords

conversational agents
chatbots
diet
diet coaching
natural language generation

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Unaddressed challenges in persuasive dieting chatbots. / Balloccu, Simone; Reiter, Ehud; Collu, Matteo G. et al.
UMAP '21: Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 392-395.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Balloccu, S, Reiter, E, Collu, MG, Sanna, F, Atzori, M & Sanguinetti, M 2021, Unaddressed challenges in persuasive dieting chatbots. in UMAP '21: Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 392-395, 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Utrecht, Netherlands, 21/06/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450614.3463602

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Unaddressed challenges in persuasive dieting chatbots

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