Interaction with a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing

Michael McTear; Kristiina Jokinen; Mirza Mohtashim Alam; Qasid Saleem; Giulio Napolitano; Florian Szczepaniak; Mossaab Hariz; Gérard Chollet; Christophe Lohr; Jérôme Boudy; Zohre Azimi; Sonja Dana Roelen; Rainer Wieching

doi:10.3390/s23052748

Interaction with a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing

Michael McTear, Kristiina Jokinen, Mirza Mohtashim Alam, Qasid Saleem, Giulio Napolitano, Florian Szczepaniak, Mossaab Hariz, Gérard Chollet, Christophe Lohr, Jérôme Boudy, Zohre Azimi, Sonja Dana Roelen, Rainer Wieching

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Abstract

Since life expectancy has increased significantly over the past century, society is being forced to discover innovative ways to support active aging and elderly care. The e-VITA project, which receives funding from both the European Union and Japan, is built on a cutting edge method of virtual coaching that focuses on the key areas of active and healthy aging. The requirements for the virtual coach were ascertained through a process of participatory design in workshops, focus groups, and living laboratories in Germany, France, Italy, and Japan. Several use cases were then chosen for development utilising the open-source Rasa framework. The system uses common representations such as Knowledge Bases and Knowledge Graphs to enable the integration of context, subject expertise, and multimodal data, and is available in English, German, French, Italian, and Japanese.

Original language	English
Article number	2748
Journal	Sensors (Switzerland)
Volume	23
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052748
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2023
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

active and healthy ageing
dialogue system
knowledge sources
participatory design
sensors

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Interaction with a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing

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