Social Practices for Social Driven Conversations in Serious Games

TL;DR

This paper introduces a social practice framework for managing conversations in serious games aimed at training physicians, utilizing a probabilistic model for selecting appropriate social practices to enhance communication skills training.

Contribution

It presents a novel integration of social practice theory with probabilistic social practice selection within a serious game for medical communication training.

Findings

Developed a probabilistic model for social practice selection

Enhanced conversation management in serious games

Supported physician communication skills training

Abstract

This paper describes the model of social practice as a theoretical framework to manage conversation with the specific goal of training physicians in communicative skills. To this aim, the domain reasoner that manages the conversation in the Communicate! \cite{jeuring} serious game is taken as a basis. Because the choice of a specific Social Practice to follow in a situation is non-trivial we use a probabilistic model for the selection of social practices as a step toward the implementation of an agent architecture compliant with the social practice model.