TY - GEN
T1 - Companionship games
T2 - 12th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2019
AU - Bowman, Alice
PY - 2019/10/26
Y1 - 2019/10/26
N2 - 1 in 2 people are diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, and for those living with cancer loneliness and isolation are significant problems. This paper discusses the development of a virtual cancer support group, using the support group format to offer a companionship game to breast cancer patients. Seven characters populate this support group, designed as empathetic virtual agents. Interviews and playtests will assess the effectiveness of the design practice developed, and these learnings will be used to create a design framework for emotionally engaging and empathetic interactive characters.
AB - 1 in 2 people are diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, and for those living with cancer loneliness and isolation are significant problems. This paper discusses the development of a virtual cancer support group, using the support group format to offer a companionship game to breast cancer patients. Seven characters populate this support group, designed as empathetic virtual agents. Interviews and playtests will assess the effectiveness of the design practice developed, and these learnings will be used to create a design framework for emotionally engaging and empathetic interactive characters.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-33894-7_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-33894-7_44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85077719198
SN - 9783030338930
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 413
EP - 417
BT - Interactive storytelling
A2 - Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.
A2 - Sullivan, Anne
A2 - Young, R. Michael
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
Y2 - 19 November 2019 through 22 November 2019
ER -
