SmartPHIL

Abstract

1 ABOUT Given the increasing adoption of personal health services and devices, research on smart personal health interfaces is a hot topic for the communities of AI and human-computer interaction [3, 10, 12]. The availability of conversational interfaces in our environment may lead to a revolution in the home healthcare and health selfmanagement. The conventional means for getting people engaged for change in the health behaviour have been health education and counselling services which does not scale well for wide populations. The first wave of health solutions based on wearables and apps have not been shown to be sufficiently effective for behavior change and health self-management [8, 18]. Counseling is still known to be the most effective intervention to lifestyle diseases. The key element