TY - GEN
T1 - Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation
AU - Daher, Salam
AU - Hochreiter, Jason
AU - Norouzi, Nahal
AU - Gonzalez, Laura
AU - Bruder, Gerd
AU - Welch, Greg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/11/5
Y1 - 2018/11/5
N2 - Conventional Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) focus primarily on the visual and auditory channels for both the agent and the interacting human: The agent displays a visual appearance and speech as output, while processing the human's verbal and non-verbal behavior as input. However, some interactions, particularly those between a patient and healthcare provider, inherently include tactile components.We introduce an Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agent (IPVA) head that occupies an appropriate physical volume; can be touched; and via human-in-The-loop control can change appearance, listen, speak, and react physiologically in response to human behavior. Compared to a traditional IVA, it provides a physical affordance, allowing for more realistic and compelling human-Agent interactions. In a user study focusing on neurological assessment of a simulated patient showing stroke symptoms, we compared the IPVA head with a high-fidelity touch-Aware mannequin that has a static appearance. Various measures of the human subjects indicated greater attention, affinity for, and presence with the IPVA patient, all factors that can improve healthcare training.
AB - Conventional Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) focus primarily on the visual and auditory channels for both the agent and the interacting human: The agent displays a visual appearance and speech as output, while processing the human's verbal and non-verbal behavior as input. However, some interactions, particularly those between a patient and healthcare provider, inherently include tactile components.We introduce an Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agent (IPVA) head that occupies an appropriate physical volume; can be touched; and via human-in-The-loop control can change appearance, listen, speak, and react physiologically in response to human behavior. Compared to a traditional IVA, it provides a physical affordance, allowing for more realistic and compelling human-Agent interactions. In a user study focusing on neurological assessment of a simulated patient showing stroke symptoms, we compared the IPVA head with a high-fidelity touch-Aware mannequin that has a static appearance. Various measures of the human subjects indicated greater attention, affinity for, and presence with the IPVA patient, all factors that can improve healthcare training.
KW - Neurological assessment
KW - Patient simulator
KW - Physical-virtual agents
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U2 - 10.1145/3267851.3267876
DO - 10.1145/3267851.3267876
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85089083134
T3 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2018
SP - 99
EP - 106
BT - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2018
Y2 - 5 November 2018 through 8 November 2018
ER -