Agent-based training systems can enhance people's social skills. The effective development
of these systems needs a comprehensive architecture that outlines their components and …

Communicate! is a serious game for practicing communication skills. It supports practicing
interpersonal communication skills between a health care professional such as a doctor or a …

Shared decision making (SDM) is increasingly considered as the best way to reach a
treatment decision in a clinical environment. However, the use of SDM in practice can be …

A scenario is a description of a series of interactions between a player and a virtual
character for one-to-one communication skills training, where at each step the player is …

An intelligent system for automated scenario–based training (SBT) needs knowledge about
the training domain, events taking place in the simulated environment, the behaviour of the …

Abstract Traditionally, Embodied Conversational Agents communicate with humans using
dialogue systems based on conversation trees. To enhance the flexibility and variability of …

We describe the design of a product that supports older patients in preparing themselves for
a consultation with a health-care professional. The product focuses on shared-decision …

This thesis investigates how we can simulate conversation and generate feedback for a
serious game using a software framework, such that a player is given options and a non …

Abstract Dynamic Epistemic Logics are a set of multimodal logics that deal with knowledge
and change. We argue that the theory for this formalism is mature enough to start a practical …

There are many games with narrative aspects in which the player will have to speak with
non-playable characters (NPC). These games exist both in the commercial gaming industry …