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Designing personalized prompts for a virtual assistant to support elderly care home residents

Alexandra König, Aarti Malhotra, Jesse Hoey, Linda E. Francis

2016 · 20 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the first results of the ACT@HOME research project which aims to develop an an artificially intelligent virtual assistant (VA) to engage and help older adults with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to complete activities of daily living (ADL) more independently. In order to define t

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