# Designing a Mobile Social and Vocational Reintegration Assistant for Burn-out Outpatient Treatment

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08254 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.08254/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 15 Dec 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Recognizing Emotion Regulation Strategies from Human Behavior with Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.04420/) (2024)
- [Socially Interactive Agents for Preserving and Transferring Tacit Knowledge in Organizations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.19942/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Using Social Agents as health-care assistants or trainers is one focus area of IVA research. While their use as physical health-care agents is well established, their employment in the field of psychotherapeutic care comes with daunting challenges. This paper presents our mobile Social Agent EmmA in the role of a vocational reintegration assistant for burn-out outpatient treatment. We follow a typical participatory design approach including experts and patients in order to address requirements from both sides. Since the success of such treatments is related to a patients emotion regulation capabilities, we employ a real-time social signal interpretation together with a computational simulation of emotion regulation that influences the agent's social behavior as well as the situational selection of verbal treatment strategies. Overall, our interdisciplinary approach enables a novel integrative concept for Social Agents as assistants for burn-out patients.