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A Psychotherapy Training Environment with Virtual Patients Implemented Using the Furhat Robot Platform

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We present a demonstration system for psychotherapy training that uses the Furhat social robot platform to implement virtual patients. The system runs an educational program with various modules, starting with training of basic psychotherapeutic skills and then moves on to tasks where these skills need to be integrated. Such training relies heavily on observing and dealing with both verbal and non-verbal in-session patient behavior. Hence, the Furhat robot is an ideal platform for implementing this. This paper describes the rationale for this system and its implementation.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Robert Johansson & Arne Jönsson

  2. Eailab AB, Stockholm, Sweden

    Robert Johansson

  3. KTH Speech, Music and Hearing, Stockholm, Sweden

    Gabriel Skantze

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  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jonas Beskow

  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Christopher Peters

  3. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ginevra Castellano

  4. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Carol O'Sullivan

  5. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Iolanda Leite

  6. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

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Johansson, R., Skantze, G., Jönsson, A. (2017). A Psychotherapy Training Environment with Virtual Patients Implemented Using the Furhat Robot Platform. In: Beskow, J., Peters, C., Castellano, G., O'Sullivan, C., Leite, I., Kopp, S. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_20

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