Our paper “Designing a Couples-Based Conversational Agent to Promote Safe Sex in New, Young Couples: A User-Centred Design Approach.” is accepted to be published in the proceedings of the 6th iteration of the ACM conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI). The publication also gained a spot in the conference for a paper presentation, which is going to take place between 8-10 July 2024.
The presentation details on the conference website: https://programs.sigchi.org/cui/2024/program/content/166807
Read the full paper at https://doi.org/10.1145/3640794.3665556
Title
Designing a Couples-Based Conversational Agent to Promote Safe Sex in New, Young Couples: A User-Centred Design Approach.
Abstract
The uptake of conversational agents (CAs) to deliver digital sexual health interventions is growing. While current CAs only address one user at a time, research suggests that couples-based interventions may be more effective at promoting safe sex in non-casual relationships by improving relationship functioning. In this paper, we describe user-centred design activities undertaken towards the design of a couples-based chatbot to address safe sex in new, young couples. A two-step approach was undertaken, in which young people were interviewed about their preferences and ideas, and sexual health professionals took part in a design thinking workshop. The design activities yielded a rich set of design guidelines from both groups, as well as a paper-and-pen prototype of the proposed CA from the workshop. As expected, trust was raised by both stakeholders as an important determinant of use and therefore heavily informs the design guidelines.
Reference
Balaji, D., de Bruijn, G. J., Bosse, T., Ischen, C., van der Goot, M., & Wiers, R., & (2024). Designing a Couples-Based Conversational Agent to Promote Safe Sex in New, Young Couples: A User-Centred Design Approach. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI’24). ACM.