A Motivational Interviewing Chatbot With Generative Reflections for Increasing Readiness to Quit Smoking: Iterative Development Study

Andrew Brown   ¹ , BASc ;   Ash Tanuj Kumar   ¹ , BSc ;   Osnat Melamed   ^{2, 3} , MSc, MD ;   Imtihan Ahmed   ¹ , BSc, MASc ;   Yu Hao Wang   ¹ , BASc ;   Arnaud Deza   ¹ , BASc ;   Marc Morcos   ¹ ;   Leon Zhu   ¹ ;   Marta Maslej   ⁴ , PhD ;   Nadia Minian   ^{2, 3, 5, 6, 7} , PhD ;   Vidya Sujaya   ¹ , BA ;   Jodi Wolff   ² , BA, MSc ;   Olivia Doggett   ⁸ , BA, MI ;   Mathew Iantorno   ⁸ , BA, MA ;   Matt Ratto   ⁸ , PhD ;   Peter Selby   ^{2, 3, 9} , MBBS, MHSc ;   Jonathan Rose   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ The Edward S Rogers Sr Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

² INTREPID Lab, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁷ Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁸ Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁹ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada