Informations générales (source: ClinicalTrials.gov)
Enhancing Social Interaction With an AlterEgo Artificial Agent
Interventional
N/A
University Hospital, Montpellier (Voir sur ClinicalTrials)
avril 2014
septembre 2016
10 septembre 2025
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.
Etablissements
| Les établissements hors Île-de-France dont les données sont issues de ClinicalTrials.gov Origine et niveau de fiabilité des données | |||||
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| Service Universitaire de psychiatrie adulte, University Hospital of Montpellier - 34295 - Montpellier - France | Delphine Capdevielle | Contact (sur clinicalTrials) | |||
Critères
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients suffering from schizophrenia according to the criteria proposed in the
DSM-IV-TR
- Aged between 18 and 60 years old.
- Patients suffering from schizophrenia according to the criteria proposed in the
DSM-IV-TR
- Aged between 18 and 60 years old.
- History of head trauma
- History of neurological disorders (epilepsy disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's
disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, stroke)
- An actual ECT treatment
- Substance Abuse and / or current Substance dependence (excluding tobacco and
cannabis).
- Pregnant women, new mothers and nursing mothers
- People private of their liberty