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.
翻译:积极老龄化的目标是促进老年人社区的变化,以保持一种积极、独立和社会参与的生活方式; 技术进步目前提供了促进和监测这些过程的必要工具; 本文报告了欧洲H20-EMPATHIC项目的中期成就,该项目旨在研究、创新、探索和验证未来世代个性化虚拟教练的新互动模式和平台,以协助老年人及其照料者在家庭附近实现积极的老龄化目标; 该项目侧重于基于证据的、用户经过验证的研究和智能技术的整合,以及通过自动语音、眼部和面部分析,结合视觉和口述对话系统的能力,采用环境感测方法; 本文介绍了该系统的现状,特别强调其组成部分及其整合,创建奥兹魔化平台,以及在整个项目头18个月中进行的用户互动研究的结果。