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Formative Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions (3227) Artificial Intelligence (2122) Mobile Health in Psychiatry (527) mHealth for Wellness, Behavior Change and Prevention (3311) Innovations in Mental Health Systems (484) Design and Formative Evaluation of Mobile Apps (809) Participatory Design and Participatory Research (415) User-Centered Design Case Studies (711) Digital Mental Health Interventions, e-Mental Health and Cyberpsychology (2109)

Published on in Vol 5, No 12 (2021): December

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/30053, first published .
A Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agent for a Mental Health Care App: Evaluation Study of Its Participatory Design

A Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agent for a Mental Health Care App: Evaluation Study of Its Participatory Design

A Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agent for a Mental Health Care App: Evaluation Study of Its Participatory Design

Authors of this article:

Morena Danieli1 Author Orcid Image ;   Tommaso Ciulli2 Author Orcid Image ;   Seyed Mahed Mousavi1 Author Orcid Image ;   Giuseppe Riccardi1 Author Orcid Image
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