Title
Design guidelines for a virtual coach for post-traumatic stress disorder patients
Author
Tielman, M.
Brinkman, W.P.
Neerincx, M.A.
Publication year
2014
Abstract
Patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) often need to specify and relive their traumatic memories in therapy to relieve their disorder, which can be a very painful process. One new development is an internet-based guided self-therapy system (IBGST), where people work at home and a therapist is remotely involved. We propose to enrich an IBGST with a virtual coach to motivate and assist the patient during the therapy. We have created scenarios and requirements for an IBGST coach and discussed these with 10 experts in structured interviews. From these interviews, we have identified 10 important guidelines to assist with the design of a virtual coach assisting with PTSD treatment. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Subject
Human Performances
PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Healthy Living
Guidelines
PTSS
Structured interviews
Virtual coach
Intelligent virtual agents
Guidelines
Internet based
Posttraumatic stress disorder
PTSS
Structured interviews
Virtual coach
Patient treatment
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_54
TNO identifier
516476
Publisher
Springer Verlag
ISBN
9783319097664
ISSN
0302-9743
Source
14th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2014, 27 August 2014 through 29 August 2014, Boston, MA, 8637 LNAI, 434-437
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Document type
conference paper