Acceptance of a Virtual Coach for Quitting Smoking and Becoming Physically Active: Dataset

<strong>Study</strong>The data was gathered during a longitudinal study on the online crowdsourcing platform Prolific between 20 May 2021 and 30 June 2021. The Human Research Ethics Committee of Delft University of Technology granted ethical approval for the research (Letter of Approval number: 1523). In this study, smokers who were contemplating or preparing to quit smoking interacted with the text-based virtual coach Sam in up to five conversational sessions. In each session, participants were assigned a new preparatory activity for quitting smoking, such as thinking of and writing down reasons for quitting smoking. After the five sessions, participants filled in a post-questionnaire in which they were asked about their acceptance of Sam. Participants answered six acceptance questions, and provided a rating and a free-text response for each of them.The study was pre-registered in the Open Science Framework (OSF): https://osf.io/k2uac. This pre-registration describes the study design, measures, etc. Note that this dataset contains only part of the collected data, namely, the data related to studying the acceptance of the virtual coach.The implementation of the virtual coach Sam can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6319356. There you can also find a list of the 24 preparatory activities used in the study (Activities.xlsx).<br><strong>Data</strong>This dataset contains four types of data:<strong>Data from participants' Prolific profiles</strong>. This includes data on demographics (e.g., age range, household size) as well as smoking and physical activity behavior (e.g., weekly exercise amount).<strong>Data from a pre-screening questionnaire</strong>. This includes, for example, the responses to informed consent questions.<strong>Data from a pre-questionnaire</strong>. This includes data on smoking and physical activity behavior, as well as personality and need for cognition.<strong>Data from a post-questionnaire</strong>. This includes data on the acceptance of the virtual coach as well as doing the preparatory activities.There is a separate data file for each type of data.<br><strong>Analysis</strong>Parts of the dataset have been used to study the acceptance of the virtual coach. Examples include: Examining people's relationship and willingness to continue working with a virtual smoking cessation coach (see this peer-reviewed paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30933-5_17), andInvestigating the acceptance of a virtual coach as a guided intervention for quitting smoking (see the bachelor's thesis by Jaap Dechering: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:71038d25-9a5a-4068-b22f-fa37b0be23aa).

**研究概况** 本研究数据采集于2021年5月20日至2021年6月30日期间，在在线众包平台Prolific上开展的一项纵向研究。代尔夫特理工大学人类研究伦理委员会批准了本研究的伦理审查（批准函编号：1523）。本研究中，正考虑或准备戒烟的吸烟者与基于文本的虚拟教练Sam进行最多五轮对话互动。每一轮会话中，参与者都会获得一项全新的戒烟准备活动，例如思考并写下戒烟的理由。完成五轮会话后，参与者填写后测问卷，问卷围绕他们对Sam的接受度进行调查。参与者需回答六个接受度相关问题，每个问题均需给出评分及自由文本回复。本研究已在开放科学框架（Open Science Framework, OSF）进行预注册：https://osf.io/k2uac。该预注册文件详述了研究设计、测量方案等内容。请注意，本数据集仅包含所收集数据的一部分，即与研究虚拟教练接受度相关的数据。虚拟教练Sam的实现代码可在此处获取：https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6319356，您还可在此页面找到本研究中使用的24项准备活动清单（Activities.xlsx）。
**数据集详情** 本数据集包含四类数据：
**参与者Prolific档案数据**：涵盖人口统计学信息（如年龄区间、家庭规模）以及吸烟与身体活动行为数据（如每周运动量）。
**预筛选问卷数据**：例如知情同意题目的作答结果。
**前测问卷数据**：涵盖吸烟与身体活动行为、人格特质以及认知需求数据。
**后测问卷数据**：涵盖对虚拟教练的接受度及参与准备活动的相关数据。
每一类数据均对应独立的数据文件。
**分析应用** 本数据集的部分内容已被用于研究虚拟教练的接受度，相关研究案例包括：探讨人们与虚拟戒烟教练的合作关系及持续使用意愿（详见已同行评审的论文：https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30933-5_17），以及调研虚拟教练作为戒烟引导干预手段的接受度（详见Jaap Dechering的学士学位论文：http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:71038d25-9a5a-4068-b22f-fa37b0be23aa）。