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. 2022 May 25:294:143-144.
doi: 10.3233/SHTI220421.

Conversational Agent to Address COVID-19 Infodemic: A Design-Based Research Approach

Youness Zidoun  1 , Sreelekshmi Kaladhara  1 , Yehia Kotp  2 , Leigh Powell  1 , Radwa Nour  1 , Hanan Al Suwaidi  3 , Nabil Zary  1
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Conversational Agent to Address COVID-19 Infodemic: A Design-Based Research Approach

Youness Zidoun et al. Stud Health Technol Inform. .

Abstract

Since the beginning of the year 2020, we have been suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic and are daily exposed to misinformation, leading to myths around vaccination and COVID-19. This study focuses on creating and distributing a Conversational Agent (CA), named VWise, for a health intervention using Design-Based Research (DBR), to help profile, guide, and inform the public about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination in the EMRO (Eastern Mediterranean Region of Operations) region.

Keywords: COVID-19 vaccination; Conversational Agent; Design-Based Research; NLU.

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