Looking at Your Photo, What Comes to Mind? Personalized Memory Internalization for Dementia Reminiscence

Wen, Shunjie; Lee, Kyung-Hwan; Lee, Gimoon; Heo, Seongsoo; Lee, Jaeyeon; Shin, Sangyeob; Moon, Gyuwon; Kim, Jiwoong; Choi, Dong-Wan

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001

Looking at Your Photo, What Comes to Mind? Personalized Memory Internalization for Dementia Reminiscence

Shunjie Wen, Kyung-Hwan Lee, Gimoon Lee, Seongsoo Heo, Jaeyeon Lee, Sangyeob Shin, Gyuwon Moon, Jiwoong Kim, Dong-Wan Choi

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Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Demo Track. Pages 8551-8554.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001

Keywords

AI: Natural Language Processing
AI: Humans and AI

Abstract

We present PhoMi, an interactive recall assistant that supports dementia reminiscence by engaging users with personal photographs captured via a live camera interface. Given a photograph, PhoMi delivers spoken questions and receives spoken responses, creating an accessible reminiscence setting with reduced reliance of human therapists. Over repeated sessions, user responses are incorporated into lightweight adapters of a vision–language model, enabling progressively personalized question generation without reprocessing prior interaction logs. PhoMi serves as a prototype toward scalable, lifelong AI companions for dementia reminiscence.

Shunjie Wen, Kyung-Hwan Lee, Gimoon Lee, Seongsoo Heo, Jaeyeon Lee, Sangyeob Shin, Gyuwon Moon, Jiwoong Kim, and Dong-Wan Choi. 2026. Looking at Your Photo, What Comes to Mind? Personalized Memory Internalization for Dementia Reminiscence. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-26. IJCAI, 8551–8554. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001

@inproceedings{ijcai2026p1001,
  title     = {Looking at Your Photo, What Comes to Mind? Personalized Memory Internalization for Dementia Reminiscence},
  author    = {Wen, Shunjie and Lee, Kyung-Hwan and Lee, Gimoon and Heo, Seongsoo and Lee, Jaeyeon and Shin, Sangyeob and Moon, Gyuwon and Kim, Jiwoong and Choi, Dong-Wan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Diego Calvanese},
  pages     = {8551--8554},
  year      = {2026},
  month     = {8},
  note      = {Demo Track},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001},
}

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