Case study in choosing a graphical character to support reminiscence therapy for those living with dementia

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Aylett, Matthew and Pappa, Katerina and Lim, Mei Yii and Aylett, Ruth and Wilson, Bruce and Parra, Mario; (2024) Case study in choosing a graphical character to support reminiscence therapy for those living with dementia. In: IVA '24. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents . Association for Computing Machinery, GBR. ISBN 9798400706257 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3652988.3673964)

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Abstract

The present study describes the process employed to identify a suitable intelligent virtual agent (IVA) for the AMPER App supporting reminiscence therapy for those living with dementia through the use of a facilitating agent. This included three distinct phases: 1) co-creation with project stakeholders and identification of a set of desirable IVA traits; 2) a blind internal team rating process to select a subset from available IVAs; 3) a character survey with healthy older adults to select a final 4 IVAs (2 male, 2 female). We analyse the results, assess inter-subject agreement, and suggest guidelines for IVA selection.

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Aylett, Matthew, Pappa, Katerina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3322-496X, Lim, Mei Yii, Aylett, Ruth, Wilson, Bruce and Parra, Mario ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2412-648X;
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