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Incorporating an Ambient Agent to Support People with a Cognitive Vulnerability

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This article presents the design of an intelligent agent application aimed at supporting people with a cognitive vulnerability to prevent the onset of a depression. For this, a computational model of the cognitive processes around depression is used. The agent application uses the principles of Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (RBET). The effect of the application is studied using software simulation. The simulation shows that a person that responds to REBT therapy develops less cognitive vulnerability than people that are not supported.

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  1. Agent Systems Research Group, Department of Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Azizi Ab Aziz & Michel C. A. Klein

  2. Artificial Intelligence Research Group, School of Computing, College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia

    Azizi Ab Aziz

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Aziz, A.A., Klein, M.C.A. (2012). Incorporating an Ambient Agent to Support People with a Cognitive Vulnerability. In: Zacarias, M., de Oliveira, J.V. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 396. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25691-2_7

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