@inproceedings{0edf5c48d8c846eb8a58cee36e349f80,
title = "Adapting Emotional Support to Personality for Carers Experiencing Stress",
abstract = "Carers - people who provide regular support for a friend or relative who could not manage without them - frequently report high levels of stress. Good emotional support (e.g. provided by an Intelligent Virtual Agent) could help relieve this stress. This study investigates whether adaptation to personality affects the amount and type of emotional support a carer is given and possible interaction effects with the stress experienced. We investigated the personality trait of Emotional Stability (ES) as it is interlinked with low tolerance for stress. Participants were presented with 7 stressful scenarios experienced by a fictitious carer and a description of their personality and asked to rank 6 emotional support messages. We predicted that people with low ES would be given more emotional support messages overall and that ES would affect the type of emotional support messages given in each scenario. We found that participants gave more praise to the high ES carer with a trend towards other support types for the low ES carer. ",
keywords = "Ehealth, personality, emotional support",
author = "Smith, {Kirsten Ailsa} and Judith Masthoff and Nava Tintarev and Wendy Moncur",
year = "2015",
month = jun,
language = "English",
series = "CEUR Workshope Proceedings",
publisher = "CEUR-WS",
booktitle = "UMAP 2015 Extended Proceedings",
note = "1st International Workshop on Personalisation and Adaptation in Technology for Health (PATH 2015), 23rd conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization ; Conference date: 29-06-2015 Through 03-07-2015",
}