Analysis Code for Bachelor Thesis: Using Reinforcement Learning to Determine When to Provide Human Support in Quitting Smoking with a Virtual Coach

This repository contains the analysis code for the bachelor thesis titled "Quitting Smoking with a Virtual Coach: Using Reinforcement Learning to Decide When to Provide Human Support" by Shirley Li. This study investigated the use of reinforcement learning to determine when to provide human support in quitting smoking with a virtual coach. The data that is used for this research was collected by a study that is explained in OSF: https://osf.io/78cnr. The data will also be published and linked to the OSF form.<br>The implementation of the virtual coach can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11102861