{"id":10922,"date":"2026-08-03T22:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:16:53","slug":"nau-researchers-studying-if-an-ai-chatbot-can-be-used-for-health-coaching-with-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/news\/nau-researchers-studying-if-an-ai-chatbot-can-be-used-for-health-coaching-with-students\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU researchers studying if an AI chatbot can be used for health coaching with students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NAU researchers within the Department of Health Sciences are investigating whether an AI chatbot could be used for student health coaching. Through NAU&#8217;s College of Health and Human Services, students studying in health fields coach other students, staff, and faculty through the University Nutrition and Coaching (UCAN)\u00a0program. A recent research project aims to see if AI models could supplement this\u00a0care approach. The research team intends to study student responses to the chatbot as a health coaching system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kjzz.org\/fronteras-desk\/2026-07-27\/nau-researchers-studying-if-an-ai-chatbot-can-be-used-for-health-coaching-with-students\"><em>KJZZ<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAU researchers within the Department of Health Sciences are investigating whether an AI chatbot could be used for student health coaching. Through NAU&#8217;s College of Health and Human Services, students studying in health fields coach other students, staff, and faculty through the University Nutrition and Coaching (UCAN)\u00a0program. A recent research project aims to see if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,1],"tags":[22,34,65],"class_list":["post-10922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-health-and-human-services","category-health-sciences","category-uncategorized","tag-chhs","tag-health-sciences","tag-hs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10925,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions\/10925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-health-human-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}