Virtual Patient Interaction via Communicative Acts
Nicolas Szilas, Lucie Chauveau, Kasper Ingdahl Andkjær, Anna Laura Luiu, Mireille Bétrancourt, Frédéric Ehrler · 2019
In the context of assisting informal caregivers of Alzheimer Disease patients, this article presents the design and preliminary implementation of a serious game in which two agents -a user-controlled caregiver and a virtual patient- communicate via specifically-designed dialog acts, reflecting both pedagogically appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.