A Therapeutic Conversational Agent (Solace) for Management of Chronic Pain: Acceptability and Usability Study

P Maxwell Slepian   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , MS, PhD ;   Stephanie Buryk-Iggers   ¹ , PhD ;   Anna M Lomanowska   ¹ , PhD ;   Binh Nguyen   ⁴ , PhD ;   Tahir Janmohamed   ⁴ , PEng, MBA ;   Hance Clarke   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Joel Katz   ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Nils G Niederstrasser   ⁶ , PhD

¹ Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ ManagingLife, Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ School of Psychology, Sport, and Health Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom