Demonstration of an always-on companion for isolated older adults

Candace Sidner, Timothy Bickmore, Charles Rich, Barbara Barry, Lazlo Ring, Morteza Behrooz, Mohammad Shayganfar

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Abstract

We summarize the status of an ongoing project to develop and evaluate a companion for isolated older adults. Four key scientific issues in the project are: embodiment, interaction paradigm, engagement and relationship. The system architecture is extensible and handles realtime behaviors. The system supports multiple activities, including discussing the weather, playing cards, telling stories, exercise coaching and video conferencing. A live, working demo system will be presented at the meeting.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGDIAL 2013 - 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages148-150
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284954
StatePublished - 2013
Event14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2013 - Metz, France
Duration: Aug 22 2013Aug 24 2013

Publication series

NameSIGDIAL 2013 - 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2013
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMetz
Period8/22/138/24/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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