@inproceedings{9ccc0546034a4ee7afaabb739199bb42,
title = "Aware Intelligent Virtual Agent{\textquoteright}s Effect on Social Presence and Empathy of Caregivers",
abstract = "The existing educational programs for caregivers often fall short in providing adequate training for essential interpersonal skills, particularly in communication and relationship development. To address this gap, researchers have highlighted the potential of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) as a tool for soft skills training across various sectors, including healthcare. In this article, we introduce an aware IVA (A-IVA) designed to represent a geriatric patient, that demonstrates limited and simulated awareness of the environment and previous conversations achieved by Wizard-of-Oz. We developed a novel Augmented Reality (AR) simulation that immerses users in a realistic caregiving scenario. We conducted a pilot study to evaluate how the A-IVA{\textquoteright}s awareness capabilities influence geriatric caregivers{\textquoteright} social presence and empathy levels as compared to an unaware IVA (U-IVA).",
keywords = "AR, Augmented Reality, Awareness, Caregiver, Caregiving, Embodied IVA, Embodied Virtual Human, Empathy, Geriatric Patient, IVA, Intelligent Virtual Agent, Mixed Reality, Simulation, Social Presence, Virtual Human",
author = "Asif Ahmmed and Erica Butts and Kimia Naeiji and Ladda Thiamwong and Ancis, {Julie R.} and Salam Daher",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2024, co-located with the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2024 Conference, ACII 2024 ; Conference date: 16-09-2024 Through 19-09-2024",
year = "2024",
month = dec,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1145/3652988.3673951",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2024",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2024",
}