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Published on in Vol 9 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/59527, first published .
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Patients’ and Health Care Professionals’ Expectations of Virtual Therapeutic Agents in Outpatient Aftercare: Qualitative Survey Study

Patients’ and Health Care Professionals’ Expectations of Virtual Therapeutic Agents in Outpatient Aftercare: Qualitative Survey Study

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Diana Immel1 Author Orcid Image ;   Bernhard Hilpert2, 3, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Patricia Schwarz5 Author Orcid Image ;   Andreas Hein5 Author Orcid Image ;   Patrick Gebhard2 Author Orcid Image ;   Simon Barton1 Author Orcid Image ;   René Hurlemann1 Author Orcid Image
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  1. Reinwarth A, Balzert E, Hilpert B, Hladký M, Gebhard P, Schneeberger T. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. TACSIA: A Framework for Passenger Expectations on Trust in Autonomous Cars with Socially Interactive Agents View
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  5. Hilpert B, Hou M, Baraka K, Broekens J. 2026 IEEE 35th International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Can You See How I Learn? Human Observers' Inferences About Robot Learning Processes View