Investigating “Another Me” digital twin technology to support the development of human relationships: An exploratory randomized controlled study

• Ami Yamasato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ami Yamasato, Chihiro Takayama

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Promotion of Research and Industry-Academic Collaboration, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Chihiro Takayama ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ami Yamasato, Chihiro Takayama

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc., Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8860-070X

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• Shinichiro Eitoku,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc., Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yoko Ishii,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc., Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Ryo Ishii,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc., Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Lidwina Andarini,

  Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc., Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4992-6918

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• Kazuya Matsuo,

  Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc., Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Atsushi Otsuka,

  Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc., Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Setsukou Sha,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Promotion of Research and Industry-Academic Collaboration, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Jun Tamura,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Emi Kamono,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6928-0432

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• Mizuki Ohashi,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Promotion of Research and Industry-Academic Collaboration, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yuichiro Yano,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tomoyuki Miyazaki

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: johney@yokohama-cu.ac.jp

  Affiliation Center for Promotion of Research and Industry-Academic Collaboration, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3840-5436

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