Integrating multiple dialogue agents using WebRTC for facilitating elderly mutual-aid at home
S. Chen, M. Nakamura
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AbstractAs the number of older people undergoing in-home long-term care increases due to the aging population worldwide, creating a novel communication between the elderly in different houses (called mutual-aid) has become a significant challenge to reduce the burden on family caregivers. From traditional Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet Communication Technology (ICT) to Artificial Intelligence (AI), although they have been progressing rapidly in smart homes and healthcare, there are still many technical tasks to truly realize the elderly mutual-aid at home, such as system operability, acceptability, and affordability. Our interest is to regard the spoken dialogue agent (an animated chat-bot program with voice interactions) as a virtual caregiver, to make full use of it on a general-purpose computer to study the assistive technology for older people at home. This study aims to implement an operable and acceptable agent-based communication system that facilitates mutual aid for older people at home.Keywords: in-home long-term care, spoken dialogue agent, virtual caregiver, WebRTC, mutual aid
S. Chen, M. Nakamura (2022). Integrating multiple dialogue agents using WebRTC for facilitating elderly mutual-aid at home. Gerontechnology, 21(s),1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.552.opp4