Conception des Interactions avec un Patient Virtuel Alzheimer pour la Formation du Personnel Soignant

Abstract

Alzheimer's patients display emotional disorders and non-verbal behaviors that caregivers must learn to manage. Human actors playing the role of so-called standardized patients are often used for training but are expensive and not always available. Virtual patients are interactive animated characters who play the role of patients with whom staff can train and whose behavior can be finely controlled. We explain in this article the specific design problems of Human-Computer Interactions that they raise in terms of simulation of cognitive and communication pathologies such as Alzheimer's disease. We detail the approach we have implemented to design a virtual Alzheimer's patient and describe the results of an experiment in which 31 caregivers interacted with a partially simulated version of our system. We conclude by explaining how we plan to use the quantitative and qualitative data collected to design an automated version of the interactive virtual patient. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing; • Interaction design; • Interaction design process and methods;