Implementing “PC-Mei” system for assisting and monitoring elderly people at home
H. Ozono, S. Chen, M. Nakamura, K. Yasuda
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AbstractCurrently, an aging population is a global trend, with Japan in particular experiencing the highest rate of aging worldwide. This has led to a societal issue in the form of a shortage of caregiving facilities and personnel. As there are limitations to human-based support, there is considerable expectation for technology-assisted aid (Song et al. 2019). Our research group is investigating and developing systems that support self-help and mutual aid among elderly individuals living at home. One such system is a Virtual Agent (VA) Listening Service (Sakakibara et al. 2017). The VA Listening Service, where a voice dialogue agent listens to the elderly, aims to sense the inner feelings that cannot be observed by sensors. The purpose of this chapter is to implement a system that supports and monitors elderly individuals at home. As an approach, we will improve the VA Listening Service. Our key idea is that by adding features to the VA Listening Service that address P1: information disparity, P2: health issues, P3: communication issues, and P4: monitoring issues, we can enable support and monitoring of elderly individuals at home.Keywords: assistant technology, virtual agent, smart healthcare, human computer interaction
H. Ozono, S. Chen, M. Nakamura, K. Yasuda (2024). Implementing “PC-Mei” system for assisting and monitoring elderly people at home. Gerontechnology, 23(2), 2-2
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2024.23.s.862.2.sp