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Enhancing Social Interaction With an AlterEgo Artificial Agent

NCT02879591 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 246

Last updated 2016-08-25

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Summary

The objective of AlterEgo is the creation of an interactive cognitive architecture, implementable in various artificial agents, allowing a continuous interaction with patients suffering from social disorders, by virtue of changes in behavioural (robot-based) as well as morphological (avatar-based) properties of that agent. The project includes research in fundamental and clinical neurosciences, interaction modeling, development of new computer-vision techniques and human-robot interfaces, as well as evaluation of the scenarios with patients before, during, and after training sessions. At the end of the project, the investigators will produce a new avatar-based clinical method able to enhance social interaction of patients.

The first challenge of this project is to create an avatar alter ego of a patient. Based on recent work in social robotics and neurosciences, the investigators hypothesize that if patients face artificial agents morphologically and behaviourally similar to them, they will increase their social interaction. The second challenge is to transform the morphology and the behaviour of the similar artificial agent into that of a healthy and different agent. The investigators assume that the smooth and continuous behavioural shift from similar/unhealthy to complementary/healthy social behaviour will lead to a better social rehabilitation. AlterEgo opens the door to a new generation of social artificial agents in service robotics. AlterEgo is an interdisciplinary project at the interaction of Social Motor Neurosciences (UM1), Robotics (EPFL), Complex Systems Dynamics (UOB), Computer Vision (DFKI), and Psychiatry (CHU).

This project includes a set of experiments that started in april 2014 and will terminate in september 2016 before undergoing a randomised clinical research.

Conditions

  • Schizophrenia

Interventions

OTHER

Social Skills training with Avatar therapist

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Université Montpellier

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Bristol

    collaborator OTHER

  • DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University Hospital, Montpellier

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2016-09-30
Completion
2016-09-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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