INSPIRE is a behavior change system for adolescent preventive healthcare
Decision-making scenarios about alcohol use and risky health behaviors
Engage adolescent youth in iterative cycles of feedback
Rich cast of believable virtual characters
Reinforcement learning system for generating personalized interactive narratives
HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE
INSPIRE is a self-adaptive personalized behavior change system for adolescent preventive healthcare. In INSPIRE, adolescents are active participants in dynamically unfolding narratives about issues of alcohol use.
YOUTH ENGAGED ITERATIVE DESIGN
INSPIRE is grounded in a social-cognitive theory of health behavior change. It is designed to enhance adolescents’ knowledge, personal efficacy, and self-regulatory processes.
INTELLIGENT NARRATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
INSPIRE enables adaptive health behavior change narratives that are tailored to individual adolescents by a novel reinforcement learning system called ChangeGradients.