Simulations of a Computational Model for a Virtual Medical Assistant

Aryana Collins Jackson (1, 2) , Marlène Gilles (2, 1) , Eimar Wall , Elisabetta Bevacqua (1, 2) , Pierre de Loor (1, 2) , Ronan Querrec (3, 2)

1 Lab-STICC_COMMEDIA - Equipe COgnition, Models and Machines for Engaging Digital Interactive Applications
2 ENIB - École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
3 Lab-STICC_INUIT - Equipe Immersive Natural User Interaction team

We propose a virtual medical assistant to guide both novice and expert caregivers through a procedure without the direct help of medical professionals. Our medical assistant uses situational leadership to handle all interaction with a caregiver, which works by identifying the readiness level of the caregiver in order to match them with an appropriate style of communication. The agent system (1) obtains caregiver behavior during the procedure, (2) calculates a readiness level of the caregiver using that behavior, and (3) generates appropriate agent behavior to progress the procedure and maintain a positive interaction with the caregiver.

Keywords: Intelligent Agents; Embodied Conversational Agents; Human-computer Interaction; Situational Leadership; Medicine; Simulation

Domains: Computer Science [cs]

Aryana Collins Jackson, Marlène Gilles, Eimar Wall, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Pierre de Loor, et al.. Simulations of a Computational Model for a Virtual Medical Assistant. ICAART 2022 – 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Feb 2022, Online Streaming, Austria. ⟨10.5220/0010910700003116⟩. ⟨hal-03586832⟩