TY - GEN
T1 - Towards the design of a virtual sociologist on aborigines substance abuse
T2 - 2012 1st IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cybernetics, CyberneticsCom 2012
AU - Kavakli, Manolya
AU - Li, Manning
AU - Rudra, Tarashankar
PY - 2013/2/14
Y1 - 2013/2/14
N2 - Aborigines are the original inhabitants of Australia. Colonisation and subsequent alienation through perpetual neglect and torture eventuated in the excessive consumption of alcohol and illegal substances in their society. To tackle this serious problem, we propose an interactive virtual sociologist, Mr. W, as an embodied conversational agent that will simulate the role of a real sociologist in advising on strategies to overcome their addiction to substance use. Guided by coping theory, we come up with an optimal system design for the Virtual Counselor, Mr. W. We believe that such a system with affective human computer interaction interface will motivate Aboriginal Australians to lead a better quality of life alongside the rest of the Australian community in enjoying the fruits of socio-economic prosperity of the country.
AB - Aborigines are the original inhabitants of Australia. Colonisation and subsequent alienation through perpetual neglect and torture eventuated in the excessive consumption of alcohol and illegal substances in their society. To tackle this serious problem, we propose an interactive virtual sociologist, Mr. W, as an embodied conversational agent that will simulate the role of a real sociologist in advising on strategies to overcome their addiction to substance use. Guided by coping theory, we come up with an optimal system design for the Virtual Counselor, Mr. W. We believe that such a system with affective human computer interaction interface will motivate Aboriginal Australians to lead a better quality of life alongside the rest of the Australian community in enjoying the fruits of socio-economic prosperity of the country.
KW - Agent Based Modelling
KW - Expert System
KW - Psychological Coping Theory
KW - Virtual Sociologist
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874568553&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CyberneticsCom.2012.6381615
DO - 10.1109/CyberneticsCom.2012.6381615
M3 - Conference publication
AN - SCOPUS:84874568553
SN - 9781467308922
T3 - Proceeding - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cybernetics, CyberneticsCom 2012
SP - 50
EP - 54
BT - Proceeding - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cybernetics, CyberneticsCom 2012
Y2 - 12 July 2012 through 14 July 2012
ER -