Personalizing Behavior Change Intervention with Cognitive Robotics: Stage Detection & Goal Reasoning

Behavior change intervention (BCI) is a goal-oriented process that focuses on guiding people toward making beneficial changes in their behavior, habits, and lifestyle. This paper introduces a cognitive robotics architecture for personalizing the behavioral change process based on state detection and the evaluation of the user's attitude to choose the most appropriate BCI intervention techniques. A preliminary experimentation is presented to study the relation between the BCI qualities self-awareness, self-efficacy and engagement and the detected stage and the proposed robot's intervention.