2020/12/15 by Patrick Gebhard, Gebhard, Patrick, Tanja Schneeberger +7 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Digital Mental Health Interventions #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Innovation, Technology, and Society #Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience #Social Robot Interaction and HRI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.08254
openalex publication_date 2020/12/15 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Using Social Agents as health-care assistants or trainers is one focus area\nof IVA research. While their use as physical health-care agents is well\nestablished, their employment in the field of psychotherapeutic care comes with\ndaunting challenges. This paper presents our mobile Social Agent EmmA in the\nrole of a vocational reintegration assistant for burn-out outpatient treatment.\nWe follow a typical participatory design approach including experts and\npatients in order to address requirements from both sides. Since the success of\nsuch treatments is related to a patients emotion regulation capabilities, we\nemploy a real-time social signal interpretation together with a computational\nsimulation of emotion regulation that influences the agent's social behavior as\nwell as the situational selection of verbal treatment strategies. Overall, our\ninterdisciplinary approach enables a novel integrative concept for Social\nAgents as assistants for burn-out patients.\n