AI roleplay and practice
Your staff rehearse the hard conversation on the laptop or phone already in their hand, as many times as it takes.
The moment
The patient who has pushed the medication cup away twice
A graduate nurse, new to the ward, stands at the bed of an older man who has refused his tablets twice. The charge nurse is on the phone. If this goes wrong he refuses a third time, the doctor is paged at midnight, and she carries it home.
The practice
She runs it on her phone in the car park before the shift
The briefing names the scenario, the counterpart and what a good outcome looks like. She speaks or types, and the patient answers in his own words. A structured review scores the attempt against the criteria you set. Then she goes again with what she just learned, in private, with nobody watching.
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What changes
By the third attempt the words come without a script
The same briefing, review and repeat format runs PTR’s VR programs, and that is where it has been measured. The published Google CHI 2024 case study and the Mayo Clinic case study cover the VR version; Immersive Training & Roleplay explains how a program is run.
of QA testers (10 of 11 who responded) said the practice scenarios felt real to them, in the published Google CHI 2024 case study of PTR’s VR practice-and-debrief format.
average trainee satisfaction, self-reported by 7 of the 26 trainees who took part and returned the post-training survey, a small and self-selected group, in the Google VR DEI case study.
Who stays in the room
A person is always one step away
Conversational AI reads language, structure and pacing. It cannot read a face, or the silence before an answer; your facilitator can. Each roleplay is grounded in your policy and practice, runs inside boundaries you set, and hands over to a person the moment it needs one.
Other rooms
The corridor, the classroom and the courthouse door
The same practice partner waits wherever a hard conversation does: a care worker steadying an older man on the handrail, a mentor teacher with a junior colleague between classes, an officer directing a visitor at the court entrance. Each sector page holds its own set of conversations.
Conversations by sector
When the headset is the room
When the room itself is the hard part
A raised voice at a counter, a shove in a corridor: the body has to learn those, not just the words. For aggression PTR moves the same format into a headset, in VR de-escalation training. Some teams run both, the phone for the words and the headset for the room.
Beyond the hard conversation
Explanations get rehearsed too
A scientist practising how she will explain a result to a funding panel. A field worker running his safety briefing at the shed bench before the crew arrives. A salesperson walking through a demonstration until it sounds like her own. The partner asks the awkward question every time.
Try it
Have one conversation now
Practise a conversation with an AI now on PTR Labs, or talk to PTR’s CEO, Simon Lowe’s digital twin on AI Studio. AI for Training and Roleplay explains the format, including the work better handled by a human facilitator, and a custom build shapes the partner around your own policy and knowledge.
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Sources and further reading
The framework the boundaries and the human handover are written against.
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
The risk framework behind the boundaries and the human handover in every PTR roleplay.
