Developing a Technical-Oriented Taxonomy to Define Archetypes of Conversational Agents in Health Care: Literature Review and Cluster Analysis.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The evolution of artificial intelligence and natural language processing generates new opportunities for conversational agents (CAs) that communicate and interact with individuals. In the health domain, CAs became popular as they allow for simulating the real-life experience in a health care setting, which is the conversation with a physician. However, it is still unclear which technical archetypes of health CAs can be distinguished. Such technical archetypes are required, among other things, for harmonizing evaluation metrics or describing the landscape of health CAs.

Authors

  • Kerstin Denecke
    Institute for Medical Informatics, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.
  • Richard May
    Institute for Medical Informatics, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.