🤖💬 Can AI help you change your habits?

Our former PhD student Selina Meyer (now postdoc at Technische Universität Nürnberg) and her supervisor David Elsweiler showed in a randomised controlled trial that even brief chats with an LLM-based agent can boost motivation for behaviour change. 💪

🧑‍💻 In the study, they tested a GPT-4 chatbot using Motivational Interviewing techniques to support self-reflection and safe dialogue.

Key findings are:
⬆️ Short AI conversations increased users' readiness to change
🛡️ Motivational interviewing techniques reduced potential harms in chatbot output
👥 User types (e.g., reflective, cooperative) shaped success of interactions

This is a step forward in safe, personalised digital behaviour change support.

Read the full open-access study here:
📄 International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
👉🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581925000710

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