These Researchers Have Develop Chatbot To Help With Eating Disorder

US researchers have developed a chatbot that may help reduce the likelihood a person develops an eating disorder. The bot helped women at a high risk for an eating disorder to reduce their concern over body weight and shape - a factor that contributes to their risk, The Verge reported. According to Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, Assistant Professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, digital prevention programmes could be more effective when guided by a human moderator. The team developed a chatbot that offered "some aspects of moderation in an automated format", Fitzsimmons-Craft was quoted as saying. Participants in the study could use the chatbot through texts or through Facebook Messenger.