Embodied Conversational Agent Appearance for Health Assessment of Older Adults: Explorative Study.
Silke Ter StalMarijke BroekhuisLex van VelsenHermie J HermensMonique TabakPublished in: JMIR human factors (2020)
Agent age and gender little influence users' impressions after short interaction but remain important at first glance to lower the threshold to interact with the agent. Thus, it is important to take the design of ECAs into account when implementing them into health apps.