Toward empirically derived methodologies and tools for human-computer interface development
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Emotions in Humans and Artifacts
Emotions in Humans and Artifacts
Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Design of animated pedagogical agents-A look at their look
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction: First International Conference, ACII 2005, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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
A Virtual Therapist That Responds Empathically to Your Answers
IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
ETELEMED '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine
Playing with virtual peers: bootstrapping contingent discourse in children with autism
ICLS'08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences - Volume 2
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The use of software agents in mental health is a relatively few explored field, but that in the last years has attracted the interest of researchers due to recent studies that show the effectiveness of computarised psychological therapies. The treatment of Major Depression is one of the mental health treatments that needs the active participation, during all their phases, of the people affected by this illness. In this paper we propose the development of a novel computer-based system to support the treatment of major depression by the remote monitoring of patients and the promotion of healthy behaviours, through a Virtual Agent (VA), in response to monitored inputs. We describe the general ideas and the first steps done towards the development of the three main components in the system. We particularly emphasise the description of the Virtual Agent, which will act as the virtual peer of the patient supporting him/her with specific activities in the treatment that would contribute to an earlier return to normal health and social and economic activity.