Virtual Agent System to Induce Reminiscence Utterances With the Past and Present Map Information

Takase, Yutaka; Nakano, Yukiko I.; Yasuda, Kiyoshi

Virtual Agent System to Induce Reminiscence Utterances With the Past and Present Map Information

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2018

Authors

Takase, Yutaka
Nakano, Yukiko I.
Yasuda, Kiyoshi

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In recent decades, the increasing number of elderly people with dementia has become a major social problem. Under such circumstances, virtual agent systems aimed at helping with mental health care for the elderly have attracted increasing attention. In this study, we propose a novel virtual agent system that encourages users' speaking about their reminiscences of their hometown or favorite places. The key idea is that the contents that the agent delivers (i.e., speaks) are generated automatically depending on the present and past information about the places in question.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:egve.20181379
,
booktitle = {ICAT-EGVE 2018 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments - Posters and Demos
},
editor = {Huang, Tony and Otsuki, Mai and Servières, Myriam and Dey, Arindam and Sugiura, Yuta and Banakou, Domna and Michael-Grigoriou, Despina
},
title = {{Virtual Agent System to Induce Reminiscence Utterances With the Past and Present Map Information
}},
author = {Takase, Yutaka and 
Nakano, Yukiko I. and 
Yasuda, Kiyoshi
},
year = {2018
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-076-5
},
DOI = {10.2312/egve.20181379
}
}