2009•National Conference on Artificial IntelligenceRequires access

Personal Health Care Assistant/Companion in Virtual World

Sukhanya Kethuneni, Stephanie E. August, James Ian Vales

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We propose to create a virtual personal health care assistant in the virtual world Second Life that accompanies the user, via an avatar, through interactions with healthcare databases answering the user's avatar's questions. This paper explores various ways to promote healthy in a virtual world environment by integrating several existing technologies.

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Key concepts: Avatar, Virtual world, Computer science, Metaverse, Human–computer interaction, Health care, Virtual machine, Virtual reality