Nele Albers, Mark A. Neerincx, Willem-Paul Brinkman (2023), Persuading to Prepare for Quitting Smoking with a Virtual Coach: Using States and User Characteristics to Predict Behavior, In AAMAS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems p.717-726, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

N. Albers, B. Hizli, Bouke Scheltinga, Eline Meijer, W.P. Brinkman (2023), Setting Physical Activity Goals with a Virtual Coach: Vicarious Experiences, Personalization and Acceptance, In Journal of Medical Systems Volume 47.

N. Albers, M.A. Neerincx, W.P. Brinkman (2022), Addressing people’s current and future states in a reinforcement learning algorithm for persuading to quit smoking and to be physically active, In PLoS ONE Volume 17.

Walter Baccinelli, Sven van der Burg, Robin Richardson, Bouke Scheltinga, N. Albers, Djura Smits, Cunliang Geng, W.P. Brinkman, Jasper Reenalda, More Authors (2022), Reusable Virtual Coach for Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Coaching, In IVA 2022 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Nele Albers, Mark A. Neerincx, Kristell M. Penfornis, Willem-Paul Brinkman (2022), Users’ needs for a digital smoking cessation application and how to address them: A mixed-methods study, In PeerJ Volume 10 p.1-41.

Nele Albers, Mark A. Neerincx, Kristell M. Penfornis, Willem-Paul Brinkman (2022), Using a Virtual Coach to Quit Smoking: 14 Themes for User Needs, 34th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC) and the 30th Belgian Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (Benelearn).

N. Albers, W.P. Brinkman, M.A. Neerincx (2021), Adaptive Data-Driven Persuasive Communication for a Conversational Agent to Support Behavior Change, Doctoral Consortium of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '21).

Eline Meijer, Kristell Penfornis, N. Albers, Bouke Scheltinga, Douwe Atsma, Niels Chavannes, Sven van der Burg, W.P. Brinkman, Winnie Gebhardt (2021), Perfect Fit: een identiteitsgebaseerde virtuele coach die ondersteunt bij stoppen met roken en meer bewegen, Nederlands Netwerk voor Tabaksonderzoek (NNvT) Congress.

N. Albers, M.A. Neerincx, W.P. Brinkman (2021), Reinforcement Learning-Based Persuasion by a Conversational Agent for Behavior Change, 33rd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
30th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning.

N. Albers, M.A. Neerincx, W.P. Brinkman (2021), Reinforcement Learning-Based Persuasion by a Conversational Agent for Behavior Change, Luis A. Leiva, Cédric Pruski, Réka Markovich, Amro Najjar, Christoph Schommer (Eds.), In BNAIC/BeneLearn 2021 p.729-732.