@conference{daher2018physical,

title = {Touch-Aware Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation},

author = {Salam Daher and Laura Gonzalez and Jason Hochreiter and Nahal Norouzi and Gerd Bruder and Gregory Welch},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3267851.3267876},

doi = {10.1145/3267851.3267876},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-11-05},

urldate = {2018-11-05},

booktitle = {ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents},

pages = {99-106},

address = {Sydney, Australia},

abstract = {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 the 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.},

keywords = {2018, Gerd Bruder, Gregory F Welch, Jason Hochreiter, Laura Gonzalez, Nahal Norouzi, neurological assessment, patient simulator, physical-virtual agents, pvp, Salam Daher},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}