---
title: "Looking at Your Photo, What Comes to Mind? Personalized Memory Internalization for Dementia Reminiscence"
authors:
  - "Shunjie Wen"
  - "Kyung-Hwan Lee"
  - "Gimoon Lee"
  - "Seongsoo Heo"
  - "Jaeyeon Lee"
  - "Sangyeob Shin"
  - "Gyuwon Moon"
  - "Jiwoong Kim"
  - "Dong-Wan Choi"
doi: "10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001"
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/1001"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/1001.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2026
pages: "8551-8554"
track: "Demo Track"
keywords:
  - "AI: Natural Language Processing"
  - "AI: Humans and AI"
---

# 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

*Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 8551-8554. DOI: [10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/1001)

## 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.