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
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.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ijcai2026_lookingatyourpho,
title = {Looking at Your Photo, What Comes to Mind? Personalized Memory Internalization for Dementia Reminiscence},
author = {Shunjie Wen and Kyung-Hwan Lee and GiMoon Lee and Seongsoo Heo and Jaeyeon Lee and Sangyeob Shin and Gyuwon Moon and Jiwoong Kim and Dong-Wan Choi},
booktitle = {IJCAI 2026},
year = {2026}
}