People with cognitive impairments have problems organizing their daily life autonomously. A
virtual agent as daily calendar assistant could provide valuable support, but this requires …

Featured Application Dialogue robot system for elderly people who have less opportunities
to talk to other people. Abstract As agents, social robots are expected to increase …

This paper proposes a domain-independent statistical methodology to develop dialog
managers for spoken dialog systems. Our methodology employs a data-driven classification …

Interactive virtual assistants serve as a cost-effective solution to assist elderly people in
several ways. They act as means to provide social support, manage loneliness, medium of …

Spoken dialogue systems are computer programs developed to interact with users
employing speech in order to provide them with specific automated services. The interaction …

In this paper we present a dialogue system and response model that allows a robot to act as
an active listener, encouraging users to tell the robot about their travel memories. The …

People with age-related or congenital cognitive impairments require assistance in daily
tasks to enable them to maintain a self-determined lifestyle in their own home. We …

A user of a programmable device has a context that may be evaluated and compared to a
context of a notification generated by the operating system or an application running on the …

This paper presents a simple, yet effective model for managing attention and interaction
control in multimodal spoken dialogue systems. The model allows the user to switch …

With the rise of the digital age, life has become a lot easier for the vast majority of the
population. However, the ever-increasing elderly population has suffered, especially in …