This is the analysis code underlying the paper "Virtual Coaching for Smoking Cessation: What are Users Preference in Ethical Principles for Human Feedback Allocation" by Glebs Labunskis, Nele Albers, and Willem-Paul Brinkman. In this paper, we conduct a mixed-methods analysis of people's preferences of ethical principles that a virtual assistant for smoking cessation should follow for deciding how to allocate human feedback.
Data:
Our analysis is based on the data collected in an online experiment in which more than 500 daily smokers interacted with the text-based virtual coach (i.e., a conversational agent) in up to 5 sessions. In each session, the virtual assistant proposed a new preparatory activity for quitting smoking or becoming more physically active, with the latter possibly aiding the former. After the 5 sessions, participants filled in a post-questionnaire in which they answered a set of questions. Our paper focuses on people's free-text responses to the question "When a human coach cannot give feedback to everybody after each session due to time constraints, which principles/rules do you think the virtual coach should follow to decide when a human coach should give feedback to people who are preparing to quit smoking?". The complete dataset can be found here: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/78CNR.
" authors: - family-names: Labunskis given-names: Glebs orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4735-0450" - family-names: Albers given-names: Nele orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0502-6176" - family-names: Brinkman given-names: Willem-Paul orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8485-7092" title: "Data underlying the publication: Virtual Coaching for Smoking Cessation: What are Users Preference in Ethical Principles for Human Feedback Allocation" keywords: version: 2 identifiers: - type: doi value: 10.4121/b5f66b7d-e10e-4dec-9a40-49b73e63b1b5.v2 license: CC BY 4.0 date-released: 2024-06-28