{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,29]],"date-time":"2026-05-29T11:31:44Z","timestamp":1780054304670,"version":"3.54.0"},"publisher-location":"New York, NY, USA","reference-count":53,"publisher":"ACM","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,19]],"date-time":"2020-10-19T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1603065600000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/copyright_policy#Background"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["dl.acm.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,20]]},"DOI":"10.1145\/3383652.3423915","type":"proceedings-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,19]],"date-time":"2020-10-19T22:10:31Z","timestamp":1603145431000},"page":"1-8","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":49,"title":["Motivating Health Behavior Change with Humorous Virtual Agents"],"prefix":"10.1145","author":[{"given":"Stefan","family":"Olafsson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Northeastern University, Boston, MA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Teresa K.","family":"O'Leary","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northeastern University, Boston, MA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Timothy W.","family":"Bickmore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northeastern University, Boston, MA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_1_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1479-5868-7-25"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/01.SMJ.0000066657.70073.14"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jbi.2010.12.006"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jgs.12449"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_5_1","volume-title":"Humor in print health advertisements: Enhanced attention, privileged recognition, and persuasiveness of preventive messages. Health communication 29, 7","author":"Blanc Nathalie","year":"2014","unstructured":"Nathalie Blanc and Emmanuelle Brigaud . 2014. Humor in print health advertisements: Enhanced attention, privileged recognition, and persuasiveness of preventive messages. Health communication 29, 7 ( 2014 ), 669--677. Nathalie Blanc and Emmanuelle Brigaud. 2014. Humor in print health advertisements: Enhanced attention, privileged recognition, and persuasiveness of preventive messages. Health communication 29, 7 (2014), 669--677."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/0022-3514.42.1.116"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_7_1","volume-title":"Hannes H\u00f6gni Vilhj\u00e1lmsson, and Timothy Bickmore","author":"Cassell Justine","year":"2004","unstructured":"Justine Cassell , Hannes H\u00f6gni Vilhj\u00e1lmsson, and Timothy Bickmore . 2004 . Beat: the behavior expression animation toolkit. In Life-Like Characters. Springer , 163--185. Justine Cassell, Hannes H\u00f6gni Vilhj\u00e1lmsson, and Timothy Bickmore. 2004. Beat: the behavior expression animation toolkit. In Life-Like Characters. Springer, 163--185."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_8_1","volume-title":"An introduction to psychological statistics","author":"Foster Garett C.","unstructured":"Garett C. Foster , David Lane , David Scott , Mikki Hebl , Rudy Guerra , Dan Osher-son, and Heidi Zimmer . 2018. An introduction to psychological statistics . University of Missouri - St. Louis. Garett C. Foster, David Lane, David Scott, Mikki Hebl, Rudy Guerra, Dan Osher-son, and Heidi Zimmer. 2018. An introduction to psychological statistics. University of Missouri - St. Louis."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_9_1","volume-title":"Handbook of humor and psychotherapy: Advances in the clinical use of humor. Professional Resource Exchange","author":"Fry William F","unstructured":"William F Fry Jr and Waleed A Salameh . 1987. Handbook of humor and psychotherapy: Advances in the clinical use of humor. Professional Resource Exchange , Inc . William F Fry Jr and Waleed A Salameh. 1987. Handbook of humor and psychotherapy: Advances in the clinical use of humor. Professional Resource Exchange, Inc."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_10_1","volume-title":"Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice","author":"Glanz K","year":"2015","unstructured":"K Glanz , B Rimer , and K Viswanath . 2015 . Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice . Wiley . K Glanz, B Rimer, and K Viswanath. 2015. Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice. Wiley."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0092-6566(03)00046-1"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_12_1","first-page":"25","article-title":"Therapeutic play: developing humor in the nurse-patient relationship","volume":"34","author":"Greenberg Martha","year":"2003","unstructured":"Martha Greenberg . 2003 . Therapeutic play: developing humor in the nurse-patient relationship . Journal-New York State Nurses Association 34 , 1 (2003), 25 -- 31 . Martha Greenberg. 2003. Therapeutic play: developing humor in the nurse-patient relationship. Journal-New York State Nurses Association 34, 1 (2003), 25--31.","journal-title":"Journal-New York State Nurses Association"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/11755494_19"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_14_1","volume-title":"intentions, and the structure of discourse. Computational linguistics","author":"Grosz Barbara","year":"1986","unstructured":"Barbara Grosz and Candace L Sidner . 1986. Attention , intentions, and the structure of discourse. Computational linguistics ( 1986 ). Barbara Grosz and Candace L Sidner. 1986. Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse. Computational linguistics (1986)."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_15_1","volume-title":"Discourse strategies","author":"Gumperz J","unstructured":"J Gumperz . 1982. Discourse strategies . Cambridge University Press . J Gumperz. 1982. Discourse strategies. Cambridge University Press."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_16_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/003368827700800201"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_17_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5964\/ejop.v6i3.207"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_18_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.185649"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_19_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jada.2006.03.012"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_20_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/0022-0167.36.2.223"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_21_1","volume-title":"The working alliance: Theory, research, and practice","author":"Horvath Adam O","unstructured":"Adam O Horvath and Leslie S Greenberg . 1994. The working alliance: Theory, research, and practice . Vol. 173 . John Wiley & Sons . Adam O Horvath and Leslie S Greenberg. 1994. The working alliance: Theory, research, and practice. Vol. 173. John Wiley & Sons."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_22_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Predicting exercise adherence in cancer patients and survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of motivational and behavioural factors","volume":"22","author":"Lunde Huseb\u00f8 Anne M","year":"2013","unstructured":"Anne M Lunde Huseb\u00f8 , Sindre M Dyrstad , Jon A S\u00f8reide , and Edvin Bru . 2013 . Predicting exercise adherence in cancer patients and survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of motivational and behavioural factors . Journal of clinical nursing 22 , 1 - 2 (2013), 4--21. Anne M Lunde Huseb\u00f8, Sindre M Dyrstad, Jon A S\u00f8reide, and Edvin Bru. 2013. Predicting exercise adherence in cancer patients and survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of motivational and behavioural factors. Journal of clinical nursing 22, 1-2 (2013), 4--21.","journal-title":"Journal of clinical nursing"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_23_1","volume-title":"Studies in the organization of conversational interaction","author":"Jefferson Gail","unstructured":"Gail Jefferson . 1978. Sequential aspects of storytelling in conversation . In Studies in the organization of conversational interaction . Elsevier , 219--248. Gail Jefferson. 1978. Sequential aspects of storytelling in conversation. In Studies in the organization of conversational interaction. Elsevier, 219--248."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_24_1","volume-title":"Bart S Ferket, MG Myriam Hunink, and Steffen E Petersen.","author":"Khanji Mohammed Y","year":"2018","unstructured":"Mohammed Y Khanji , Claudia N van Waardhuizen , Vin\u00edcius VS Bicalho , Bart S Ferket, MG Myriam Hunink, and Steffen E Petersen. 2018 . Lifestyle advice and interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction: A systematic review of guidelines. International journal of cardiology 263 (2018), 142--151. Mohammed Y Khanji, Claudia N van Waardhuizen, Vin\u00edcius VS Bicalho, Bart S Ferket, MG Myriam Hunink, and Steffen E Petersen. 2018. Lifestyle advice and interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction: A systematic review of guidelines. International journal of cardiology 263 (2018), 142--151."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_25_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1979742.1979604"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_26_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-319-47665-0_11"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_27_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-319-09767-1_32"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_28_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/2544103"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_29_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4278\/0890-1171-16.3.157"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_30_1","volume-title":"The psychology of humor","author":"Martin Rod A","year":"2006","unstructured":"Rod A Martin . 2006. The psychology of humor . Burlington, MA : Elsevier ( 2006 ). Rod A Martin. 2006. The psychology of humor. Burlington, MA: Elsevier (2006)."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_31_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/0022-3514.47.1.145"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_32_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0092-6566(02)00534-2"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_33_1","volume-title":"Review of motivational interviewing in promoting health behaviors. Clinical psychology review 29, 4","author":"Martins Renata K","year":"2009","unstructured":"Renata K Martins and Daniel W McNeil . 2009. Review of motivational interviewing in promoting health behaviors. Clinical psychology review 29, 4 ( 2009 ), 283--293. Renata K Martins and Daniel W McNeil. 2009. Review of motivational interviewing in promoting health behaviors. Clinical psychology review 29, 4 (2009), 283--293."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_34_1","volume-title":"Motivational interviewing: Helping people change","author":"Miller William R","unstructured":"William R Miller and Stephen Rollnick . 2012. Motivational interviewing: Helping people change . Guilford press . William R Miller and Stephen Rollnick. 2012. Motivational interviewing: Helping people change. Guilford press."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_35_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s12369-012-0171-x"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_36_1","volume-title":"Proceedings ERRARE 2015-Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing.","author":"Niculescu Andreea I","year":"2015","unstructured":"Andreea I Niculescu and Rafael E Banchs . 2015 . Strategies to cope with errors in human-machine spoken interactions: using chatbots as back-off mechanism for task-oriented dialogues . In Proceedings ERRARE 2015-Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing. Andreea I Niculescu and Rafael E Banchs. 2015. Strategies to cope with errors in human-machine spoken interactions: using chatbots as back-off mechanism for task-oriented dialogues. In Proceedings ERRARE 2015-Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_37_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-642-33197-8_24"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_38_1","volume-title":"The April Fools Day Workshop on Computational Humour","volume":"20","author":"Nijholt Anton","year":"2002","unstructured":"Anton Nijholt . 2002 . Embodied agents: A new impetus to humor research . In The April Fools Day Workshop on Computational Humour , Vol. 20 . In : Proc. Twente Workshop on Language Technology, 101--111. Anton Nijholt. 2002. Embodied agents: A new impetus to humor research. In The April Fools Day Workshop on Computational Humour, Vol. 20. In: Proc. Twente Workshop on Language Technology, 101--111."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_39_1","volume-title":"Humor and embodied conversational agents","author":"Nijholt Antinus","unstructured":"Antinus Nijholt . 2003. Humor and embodied conversational agents . Centre for Telematics and Information Technology , University of Twente. Antinus Nijholt. 2003. Humor and embodied conversational agents. Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_40_1","volume-title":"Effective helping: Interviewing and counseling techniques","author":"Okun Barbara F","unstructured":"Barbara F Okun and Ricki E Kantrowitz . 2014. Effective helping: Interviewing and counseling techniques . Nelson Education . Barbara F Okun and Ricki E Kantrowitz. 2014. Effective helping: Interviewing and counseling techniques. Nelson Education."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_41_1","volume-title":"Virtual Counselor for Patients in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use: Work in Progress and Preliminary Results. In The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'18)","author":"Olafsson Stefan","year":"2018","unstructured":"Stefan Olafsson , Teresa O'Leary , Christina Lee , and Timothy Bickmore . 2018 . Virtual Counselor for Patients in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use: Work in Progress and Preliminary Results. In The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'18) . Springer, Sydney, Australia. Stefan Olafsson, Teresa O'Leary, Christina Lee, and Timothy Bickmore. 2018. Virtual Counselor for Patients in Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use: Work in Progress and Preliminary Results. In The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'18). Springer, Sydney, Australia."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_42_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1479-5868-4-14"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_43_1","volume-title":"AAMAS'09 Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems","volume":"2","author":"Pawel Dybala","year":"2009","unstructured":"Dybala Pawel , Ptaszynski Michal , Rzepka Rafal , and Araki Kenji . 2009 . Hu-moroids: conversational agents that induce positive emotions with humor . In AAMAS'09 Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , Vol. 2 . ACM, 1171--1172. Dybala Pawel, Ptaszynski Michal, Rzepka Rafal, and Araki Kenji. 2009. Hu-moroids: conversational agents that induce positive emotions with humor. In AAMAS'09 Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Vol. 2. ACM, 1171--1172."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_44_1","volume-title":"The transtheoretical model of health behavior change. American journal of health promotion 12, 1","author":"Prochaska James O","year":"1997","unstructured":"James O Prochaska and Wayne F Velicer . 1997. The transtheoretical model of health behavior change. American journal of health promotion 12, 1 ( 1997 ), 38--48. James O Prochaska and Wayne F Velicer. 1997. The transtheoretical model of health behavior change. American journal of health promotion 12, 1 (1997), 38--48."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_45_1","volume-title":"The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places","author":"Reeves Byron","unstructured":"Byron Reeves and Clifford Ivar Nass . 1996. The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places . Cambridge university press . Byron Reeves and Clifford Ivar Nass. 1996. The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places. Cambridge university press."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_46_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/a0015595"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_47_1","volume-title":"Basics of qualitative research","author":"Strauss Anselm","unstructured":"Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin . 1990. Basics of qualitative research . Sage publications. Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin. 1990. Basics of qualitative research. Sage publications."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_48_1","volume-title":"Integrating humor into psychotherapy: Research, theory, and the necessary conditions for the presence of therapeutic humor in helping relationships. The humanistic psychologist 41, 4","author":"Sultanoff Steven M","year":"2013","unstructured":"Steven M Sultanoff . 2013. Integrating humor into psychotherapy: Research, theory, and the necessary conditions for the presence of therapeutic humor in helping relationships. The humanistic psychologist 41, 4 ( 2013 ), 388--399. Steven M Sultanoff. 2013. Integrating humor into psychotherapy: Research, theory, and the necessary conditions for the presence of therapeutic humor in helping relationships. The humanistic psychologist 41, 4 (2013), 388--399."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_49_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Sven Svebak. 1996. The development of the Sense of Humor Questionnaire: From SHQ to SHQ-6.  Sven Svebak. 1996. The development of the Sense of Humor Questionnaire: From SHQ to SHQ-6.","DOI":"10.1515\/humr.1996.9.3-4.341"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_50_1","volume-title":"Proceedings of the 2020 ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction","author":"Vilk John","year":"1950","unstructured":"John Vilk and Naomi T. Fitter . 2020. Comedians in Cafes Getting Data: Evaluating Timing and Adaptivity in Real-World Robot Comedy Performance . In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction ( Cambridge, United Kingdom) (HRI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 223--231. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/33 1950 2.3374780 10.1145\/3319502.3374780 John Vilk and Naomi T. Fitter. 2020. Comedians in Cafes Getting Data: Evaluating Timing and Adaptivity in Real-World Robot Comedy Performance. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (Cambridge, United Kingdom) (HRI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 223--231. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3319502.3374780"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_51_1","volume-title":"Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. Psychological bulletin 132, 2","author":"Webb Thomas L","year":"2006","unstructured":"Thomas L Webb and Paschal Sheeran . 2006. Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. Psychological bulletin 132, 2 ( 2006 ), 249. Thomas L Webb and Paschal Sheeran. 2006. Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. Psychological bulletin 132, 2 (2006), 249."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_52_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00523.x"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_53_1","volume-title":"CHI 2017 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH).","author":"Zhou S","year":"2017","unstructured":"S Zhou , T Bickmore , A Rubin , C Yeksigian , R Lippin-Foster , M Heilman , and SR Simon . 2017 . A relational agent for alcohol misuse screening and intervention in primary care . In CHI 2017 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH). S Zhou, T Bickmore, A Rubin, C Yeksigian, R Lippin-Foster, M Heilman, and SR Simon. 2017. A relational agent for alcohol misuse screening and intervention in primary care. In CHI 2017 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH)."}],"event":{"name":"IVA '20: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents","location":"Virtual Event Scotland UK","acronym":"IVA '20","sponsor":["SIGAI ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence"]},"container-title":["Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3383652.3423915","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3383652.3423915","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,17]],"date-time":"2025-06-17T21:31:57Z","timestamp":1750195917000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3383652.3423915"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,19]]},"references-count":53,"alternative-id":["10.1145\/3383652.3423915","10.1145\/3383652"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3383652.3423915","relation":{},"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,19]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2020-10-19","order":2,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}