Toward conducting motivational interviewing with an on-demand clinician avatar for tailored health behavior change interventions

In this article we describe work-in-progress about the development of avatar-based personalized assistants that can delivered motivational interviewing health behavior change interventions, tailored to its specific users Our approach combines the latest progress in Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), believable agents, and dialog systems. We discuss how we use different platforms to aim at providing accessibility of personalized health assistant, anytime anywhere.