Combining gamified applications with an anthropomorphic interface is expected to provide a motivational effect. Furthermore, an anthropomorphic interface is seen as a tool to support a long-term relationship, especially when human components are applied in a human-computer interaction. Anthropomorphic interfaces virtually imitate the patient’s health progress in the transition process which could aid in helping to maintain the patient’s motivation throughout the process. Applying them in healthcare applications, particularly for a transition care, could help to support the transition process, transferring a patient from hospital care to self-care. This includes the design, engineering, research (including ethics and social issues) and usability communities.Īnthropomorphic interfaces in gamified applications may offer different effects on human and computer interactions. Building on the experience of a previous project, and drawing on the experience of a four year multi-disciplinary project, called Companions, the authors are keen to build community relationships around the notion of personification technologies. Avatars appear more congenial and coordinated. Interactions are becoming more natural and engaging. Human language technologies allow devices to understand, or appear to understand, conversation. Speech as an interaction is finally becoming robust and useable and is very influential in people attributing intelligence to devices and systems. The convergence of a number of technologies is making personification technologies possible. They may be persuasive technologies in the sense of Fogg that aim to get people to do things they would rather not do. They may do this through having behaviours that encourage people to attribute personality or emotion to them. These technologies try to get people to form relationships with them rather than simply interact with them. Personification technologies are technologies that encourage people to anthropomorphize.

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