EMPATHICEmpathic, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly

  1. Justo Blanco, Raquel
  2. Torres Barañano, María Inés
  3. López Zorrilla, Asier
  4. Velasco Vázquez, Mikel de
  5. Irastorza, Jon
  6. Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel
Journal:
Procesamiento del lenguaje natural

ISSN: 1135-5948

Year of publication: 2018

Issue: 61

Pages: 167-170

Type: Article

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Abstract

The EMPATHIC project will research, innovate, explore and validate new paradigms and platforms, laying the foundation for future generations of Personalised Virtual Coaches to assist elderly people living independently at and around their home. Innovative multimodal face analytics, adaptive spoken dialogue systems and natural language interfaces are part of what the project will research and innovate, in order to help dependent aging persons and their carers. The project will use remote non-intrusive technologies to extract physiological markers of emotional states in real-time for online adaptive responses of the coach, and advance holistic modelling of behavioural, computational, physical and social aspects of a personalised expressive virtual coach. It will develop causal models of coach-user interactional exchanges that engage elders in emotionally believable interactions keeping off loneliness, sustaining health status, enhancing quality of life and simplifying access to future telecare services.

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Funding information

This work has been founded by the European Commission H2020-SC1-2017-RIA grant number 769872: "Empathic, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly".

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