Published on in Vol 5 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/67717, first published .
Message Humanness as a Predictor of AI’s Perception as Human: Secondary Data Analysis of the HeartBot Study

Message Humanness as a Predictor of AI’s Perception as Human: Secondary Data Analysis of the HeartBot Study

Message Humanness as a Predictor of AI’s Perception as Human: Secondary Data Analysis of the HeartBot Study

Haruno Suzuki   1 , MS, RN ;   Jingwen Zhang   2 , PhD ;   Diane Dagyong Kim   2 , MA ;   Kenji Sagae   3 , PhD ;   Holli A DeVon   4 , PhD, RN ;   Yoshimi Fukuoka   1 , PhD, RN

1 Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

2 Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA, United States

3 Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States

4 School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Yoshimi Fukuoka, PhD, RN
  • Department of Physiological Nursing
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • 521 Parnassus Ave
  • San Francisco, CA 94143
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 415-476-8419
  • Email: yoshimi.fukuoka@ucsf.edu