TY - GEN
T1 - The Empathic project
T2 - 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2019
AU - Torres, M. I.
AU - Olaso, J. M.
AU - Montenegro, C.
AU - Santana, R.
AU - Vázquez, A.
AU - Justo, R.
AU - Lozano, J. A.
AU - Esposito, A.
AU - Cordasco, G.
AU - Troncone, A.
AU - Escalera, S.
AU - Palmero Cantariño, C.
AU - Schlögl, S.
AU - Petrovska-Delacretaz, D.
AU - Mtibaa, A.
AU - Hmani, M. A.
AU - Deroo, O.
AU - Gordeeva, O.
AU - Chollet, G.
AU - Dugan, N.
AU - Irvine, M.
AU - Glackin, N.
AU - Pickard, C.
AU - Korsnes, M. S.
AU - Martinussen, L. J.
AU - Tenorio-Laranga, J.
AU - Gonzalez-Fraile, E.
AU - Fernandez-Ruanova, B.
AU - Gonzalez-Pinto, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/6/5
Y1 - 2019/6/5
N2 - The goal of active aging is to promote changes in the elderly community so as to maintain an active, independent and socially-engaged lifestyle. Technological advancements currently provide the necessary tools to foster and monitor such processes. This paper reports on mid-term achievements of the European H2020 EMPATHIC project, which aims to research, innovate, explore and validate new interaction paradigms and platforms for future generations of personalized virtual coaches to assist the elderly and their carers to reach the active aging goal, in the vicinity of their home. The project focuses on evidence-based, user-validated research and integration of intelligent technology, and context sensing methods through automatic voice, eye and facial analysis, integrated with visual and spoken dialogue system capabilities. In this paper, we describe the current status of the system, with a special emphasis on its components and their integration, the creation of a Wizard of Oz platform, and findings gained from user interaction studies conducted throughout the first 18 months of the project.
AB - The goal of active aging is to promote changes in the elderly community so as to maintain an active, independent and socially-engaged lifestyle. Technological advancements currently provide the necessary tools to foster and monitor such processes. This paper reports on mid-term achievements of the European H2020 EMPATHIC project, which aims to research, innovate, explore and validate new interaction paradigms and platforms for future generations of personalized virtual coaches to assist the elderly and their carers to reach the active aging goal, in the vicinity of their home. The project focuses on evidence-based, user-validated research and integration of intelligent technology, and context sensing methods through automatic voice, eye and facial analysis, integrated with visual and spoken dialogue system capabilities. In this paper, we describe the current status of the system, with a special emphasis on its components and their integration, the creation of a Wizard of Oz platform, and findings gained from user interaction studies conducted throughout the first 18 months of the project.
KW - Assisted Living
KW - Coaching
KW - Emotional Artificial Agents
KW - Spoken Dialogue Systems
U2 - 10.1145/3316782.3322764
DO - 10.1145/3316782.3322764
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069198797
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 629
EP - 638
BT - Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2019
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 5 June 2019 through 7 June 2019
ER -