학술논문

Interaction with a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing.
Document Type
Article
Source
Sensors (14248220). Mar2023, Vol. 23 Issue 5, p2748. 17p.
Subject
*ACTIVE aging
*KNOWLEDGE graphs
*KNOWLEDGE representation (Information theory)
*PARTICIPATORY design
*KNOWLEDGE base
*LIFE expectancy
Language
ISSN
1424-8220
Abstract
Since life expectancy has increased significantly over the past century, society is being forced to discover innovative ways to support active aging and elderly care. The e-VITA project, which receives funding from both the European Union and Japan, is built on a cutting edge method of virtual coaching that focuses on the key areas of active and healthy aging. The requirements for the virtual coach were ascertained through a process of participatory design in workshops, focus groups, and living laboratories in Germany, France, Italy, and Japan. Several use cases were then chosen for development utilising the open-source Rasa framework. The system uses common representations such as Knowledge Bases and Knowledge Graphs to enable the integration of context, subject expertise, and multimodal data, and is available in English, German, French, Italian, and Japanese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]