  Using Social Agents as health-care assistants or trainers is one focus area
of IVA research. While their use as physical health-care agents is well
established, their employment in the field of psychotherapeutic care comes with
daunting challenges. This paper presents our mobile Social Agent EmmA in the
role of a vocational reintegration assistant for burn-out outpatient treatment.
We follow a typical participatory design approach including experts and
patients in order to address requirements from both sides. Since the success of
such treatments is related to a patients emotion regulation capabilities, we
employ a real-time social signal interpretation together with a computational
simulation of emotion regulation that influences the agent's social behavior as
well as the situational selection of verbal treatment strategies. Overall, our
interdisciplinary approach enables a novel integrative concept for Social
Agents as assistants for burn-out patients.
