Human-Agents Experience Sharing: Creating Social Agents for Elderly People with Dementia

As intelligent technology steadily becomes a part of modern societies, people collaborate with agents more frequently, and so agents need to be socially intelligent, i.e. personalised and context-sensitive. This paper introduces a context-sensitive personalisation framework for social agents that facilitates the establishment of human-agent relationships by sharing past experiences through personal conversation, and sharing new experiences by engaging in joint activities together. We apply the framework in a robot application for the dementia care practice: ReJAM Robots engaging Elderly in Joint Activities with Music. CCS Concepts •Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; •Social and professional topics → Seniors; •Applied computing → Consumer health; Psychology;