Designing Sociable Robots
A flexible platform for building applications with life-like characters
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Creating Interactive Virtual Humans: Some Assembly Required
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Video-based event recognition: activity representation and probabilistic recognition methods
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Special issue on event detection in video
AI Magazine - Special issue on achieving human-level AI through integrated systems and research
Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents
IVA '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Virtual Patients for Clinical Therapist Skills Training
IVA '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
IVA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Translating social support practices into online services for family caregivers
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Emerging Trends in Health Care Delivery: Towards Collaborative Security for NIST RBAC
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security XXIII
Virtual humans with secrets: learning to detect verbal cues to deception
ITS'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Volume Part II
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using critical-cue inventories to advance virtual patient technologies in psychological assessment
Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration
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There is a growing need for applications that can dynamically interact with aging populations to gather information, monitor their health care, provide information, or even act as companions. Virtual human agents or virtual characters offer a technology that can enable human users to overcome the confusing interfaces found in current human-computer interactions. These artificially intelligent virtual characters have speech recognition, natural language and vision that will allow human users to interact with their computers in a more natural way. Additionally, sensors may be used to monitor the environment for specific behaviors that can be fused into a virtual human system. As a result, the virtual human may respond to a patient or elderly person in a manner that will have a powerful affect on their living situation. This paper will describe the virtual human technology developed and some current applications that apply the technology to virtual patients for mental health diagnosis and clinician training. Additionally the paper will discuss possible ways in which the virtual humans may be utilized for assisted health care and for the integration of multi-modal input to enhance the virtual human system.