Validating and Dialectical Coaching Strategies in a Virtual Coach for Obese Emotional Eaters 59 3 Design rationale for a personalised virtual coach The virtual coach ‘Develop a wise mind and counsel yourself!’ (a translation of the Dutch title: ‘Denk je zèlf!’) in Figure 1 is an interactive and self-learning persuasive system that coaches attitude and/or long-term behaviour change by providing real-time personalised support [9] and by supplying personal feedback based on persuasive coaching strategies, originated from validation and dialectical strategies of DBT and persuasive features of the Persuasive System Design model [24]. It provides the user with practical exercises to enhance skills in mindfulness, emotion regulation and stress tolerance. Components Virtual Coach The virtual coach application consists of three different components: 1 the personalised Virtual Coach; 2 the emo.analyser; 3 a set of skills practices in mindfulness, emotion regulation and stress tolerance. Figure 1 | Schematic overview ‘Denk je Zelf!’ Application
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