{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Looking at Your Photo, What Comes to Mind? Personalized Memory Internalization for Dementia Reminiscence","authors":[{"name":"Shunjie Wen","slug":"shunjie-wen","given":"Shunjie","family":"Wen","affiliation":""},{"name":"Kyung-Hwan Lee","slug":"kyung-hwan-lee","given":"Kyung-Hwan","family":"Lee","affiliation":""},{"name":"Gimoon Lee","slug":"gimoon-lee","given":"Gimoon","family":"Lee","affiliation":""},{"name":"Seongsoo Heo","slug":"seongsoo-heo","given":"Seongsoo","family":"Heo","affiliation":""},{"name":"Jaeyeon Lee","slug":"jaeyeon-lee","given":"Jaeyeon","family":"Lee","affiliation":""},{"name":"Sangyeob Shin","slug":"sangyeob-shin","given":"Sangyeob","family":"Shin","affiliation":""},{"name":"Gyuwon Moon","slug":"gyuwon-moon","given":"Gyuwon","family":"Moon","affiliation":""},{"name":"Jiwoong Kim","slug":"jiwoong-kim","given":"Jiwoong","family":"Kim","affiliation":""},{"name":"Dong-Wan Choi","slug":"dong-wan-choi","given":"Dong-Wan","family":"Choi","affiliation":""}],"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.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/1001","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/1001.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/1001.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/bibtex/1001","volume":{"slug":"2026","title":"Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2026","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/","year":2026,"location":"Bremen, Germany","dates":"15-21 August 2026","editors":"Diego Calvanese","isbn":"978-1-956792-09-6","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2026"},"section":"Demo Track","track":"Demo Track","number":1001,"pages":{"first":8551,"last":8554},"keywords":["AI: Natural Language Processing","AI: Humans and AI"],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}