Listener agent for elderly people with dementia

Author

Sakai, Yoichi ; Nonaka, Yuuko ; Yasuda, Kiyoshi ; Nakano, Yukiko I.

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Seikei Univ., Musashino, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 March 2012

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

200

Abstract

With the goal of developing a conversational humanoid that can serve as a companion for people with dementia, we propose an autonomous virtual agent that can generate backchannel feedback, such as head nods and verbal acknowledgement, on the basis of acoustic information in the user´s speech. The system is also capable of speech recognition and language understanding functionalities, which are potentially useful for evaluating the cognitive status of elderly people on a daily basis.

Keywords

geriatrics; medical computing; natural language processing; software agents; speech recognition; autonomous virtual agent; backchannel feedback; conversational humanoid agent; dementia; elderly people cognitive status evaluation; head nods; language understanding functionality; listener agent; speech recognition; user speech acoustic information; verbal acknowledgement; Animation; Dementia; Educational institutions; Senior citizens; Speech; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Conversational feedback; Dementia;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2012 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

2167-2121

Print_ISBN

978-1-4503-1063-5

Electronic_ISBN

2167-2121

Type

conf

Filename

6249525