Research
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Latest funding
- $569,925
Assessing ChatV's Feasibility in Promoting Varenicline Adherence: A Hybrid Type 1 Study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $558,193
Enhancing Motivation for Smoking Cessation in Women Using a Gender-Informed AI Conversational Agent: Development and Feasibility Study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $279,225
Helping people adhere to their varenicline treatment by co-creating a conversational agent: A feasibility study
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Assessing ChatV's Feasibility in Promoting Varenicline Adherence: A Hybrid Type 1 Study
Principal investigators: Minian, Nadia
Keywords: Behavioural Interventions; Conversational Agents; Hybrid Type 1 Trial; Medication Adherence; Randomized Control Trial; Smoking Cessation
Enhancing Motivation for Smoking Cessation in Women Using a Gender-Informed AI Conversational Agent: Development and Feasibility Study
Principal investigators: Melamed, Osnat; Sikstrom, Laura
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Behavioural Counselling; Conversational Agent; Digital Storytelling; Gender; Health Behaviour Change; Motivational Interviewing; Tobacco Addiction; Women'S Health
Helping people adhere to their varenicline treatment by co-creating a conversational agent: A feasibility study
Principal investigators: Minian, Nadia
Keywords: Conversational Agent; Implementation Outcomes; Medication Adherence; Smoking Cessation
A Natural Language Chatbot for Smoking Addiction
Principal investigators: Rose, Jonathan
Keywords: Smoking Cessation Addiction AI Natural Language Processing Conversational Agent Motivational Interviewing
Helping people adhere to their varenicline treatment by co-creating a conversational agent: A feasibility study
Principal investigators: Minian, Nadia
Keywords: Cancer
Building Capacity in Amputation Research
Principal investigators: Mayo, Amanda
Keywords: Amputation; Consensus Building; Disability; Knowledge Translation; Patient-Oriented; Prosthetics; Quality Of Life
I made this: Children's participatory learning with 3D printing
Principal investigators: McEwen, Rhonda
Keywords: participatory digital culture; 3D printing; participatory learning; digital technologies; user-generated content; informal learning; constructionism; inclusive design; digital literacy; children
Digital economy trading zones interactional expertise and the role of public, private and academic values
Principal investigators: Ratto, Matt V.
Keywords: public-private-academic cluster; digital media; games; space; geo-location; urban; identity; sensors; physical computing; social implications
Digital Economy - The materialization of digital information and the digital economy
Principal investigators: Ratto, Matt V.
DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media
Principal investigators: Ratto, Matt V.
Keywords: diy; digital media; citizenship; social media; information technology; politics; participation
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