Conversational Agents and Avatars for Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Lifestyle-Related Behaviors: Scoping Review

Journals

1. Kiuchi K, Otsu K, Hayashi Y. Psychological insights into the research and practice of embodied conversational agents, chatbots and social assistive robots: a systematic meta-review. Behaviour & Information Technology 2024;43(15):3696 View
2. Anisha S, Sen A, Bain C. Evaluating the Potential and Pitfalls of AI-Powered Conversational Agents as Humanlike Virtual Health Carers in the Remote Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2024;26:e56114 View
3. Ramírez Gallegos I, Marina Arroyo M, López-González Á, Vicente-Herrero M, Vallejos D, Sastre-Alzamora T, Ramírez-Manent J. The Effect of a Program to Improve Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet on Cardiometabolic Parameters in 7034 Spanish Workers. Nutrients 2024;16(7):1082 View
4. Schlieter H, Gand K, Weimann T, Sandner E, Kreiner K, Thoma S, Liu J, Caprino M, Corbo M, Seregni A, Tropea P, Del Pino R, Gómez Esteban J, Gabilondo I, Lacraru A, Busnatu S. Designing Virtual Coaching Solutions. Business & Information Systems Engineering 2024;66(3):377 View
5. Vandelanotte C, Hodgetts D, Peris D, Karki A, Maher C, Imam T, Rashid M, To Q, Trost S. Perceptions and expectations of an artificially intelligent physical activity digital assistant — A focus group study. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being 2024;16(4):2362 View
6. Taylor M, Ng D, Pfisterer K, Cafazzo J, Sherifali D, Ayatollahi H. The value of diabetes technology enabled coaching (DTEC) to support remission evaluation of medical interventions in T2D: Patient and health coach perspectives. PLOS Digital Health 2025;4(1):e0000701 View
7. Wang Q, Yang W, Xu K, Lam L. The effect of chatbot-based exercise interventions on physical activity, exercise habits, and sedentary behavior: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. DIGITAL HEALTH 2025;11 View
8. Fukuoka Y, Kim D, Zhang J, Hoffmann T, DeVon H, Sagae K. AI HeartBot to Increase Women’s Awareness and Knowledge of Heart Attacks: Nonrandomized, Quasi-Experimental Study. JMIR Cardio 2025;9:e80407 View
9. Martinengo L, Ha N, Tay E, Tong S, Sevdalis N. Implementation of a Digital Health Intervention (CHAMP) for Self-Monitoring of Hypertension: Protocol for 3 Interlinked Implementation Studies. JMIR Research Protocols 2025;14:e72942 View
10. Amil S, Gagnon M, Bédard A, Da S, Zavala Mora D, Drapeau V, Desroches S. Interactive Conversational Agents to Improve Dietary Behaviors for Health Promotion: Mixed Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025;27:e78220 View
11. Kim D, Zhang J, Sagae K, Devon H, Hoffmann T, Rountree L, Fukuoka Y. Human-Delivered Conversation Versus AI Chatbot Conversation in Increasing Heart Attack Knowledge in Women in the United States: Quasi-Experimental Studies. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025;27:e73184 View
12. Lim S, Yang Q, Meng J, Rains S. The role of communication in health-focused conversational AI: a review of systematic reviews examining conversational features, design characteristics, and interaction functions. Behaviour & Information Technology 2025:1 View
13. Suzuki H, Zhang J, Kim D, Sagae K, DeVon H, Fukuoka Y. AI or Human? Message Humanness Predicts Perceiving AI as Human: A Secondary Data Analysis of the HeartBot Study (Preprint). JMIR AI 2024 View

Books/Policy Documents

1. Mechanick J. Lifestyle Medicine. View
2. Logothetis I, Diakogiannis K, Vidakis N. HCI in Games. View

Conference Proceedings

1. Desai S, Hu X, Lundy M, Chin J. International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Using Experience-Based Participatory Approach to Design Interactive Voice User Interfaces for Delivering Physical Activity Programs with Older Adults View