cff-version: 1.2.0
abstract: "<p>This dataset contains data and code snippets from the analysis performed during the thesis, "Traits for a virtual coach to be a friend".  Here, an investigation has taken place to what characteristics the virtual coach must possess to establish this friendly relationship. Thus, the main research question is: <strong>What are the reasons for seeing the virtual coach as a stranger or friend?</strong> This research has been based on a retrospective study performed by Albers and Brinkman. Here, five hundred participants interacted with the text-based virtual coach Sam - developed for the Perfect Fit project to convince smokers to quit by performing small activities - in five separate sessions.  Afterwards, each participant rated the relationship with the virtual coach, followed by an explanatory free-text response to which thematic analysis was applied. The quality of the thematic analysis has been ensured by researcher and method triangulation. Researcher triangulation, where multiple</p>
<p>researchers were involved, determined the reliability of the coding scheme generated during thematic analysis. Method triangulation, which supported the findings, was executed with the free-text responses, literature, and quantitative data, containing demographic and smoke-related characteristics.</p>
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authors:
  - family-names: Ali
    given-names: Mahira
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5931-036X"
  - 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 and code underlying the bachelor thesis: Traits for a virtual coach to be a ”friend”"
keywords:
version: 1
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.4121/20099102.v1
license: CC BY 4.0
date-released: 2022-06-21