The Intelligent Butler: A Virtual Agent for Disabled and Elderly People Assistance

Fiol-Roig, Gabriel; Arellano, Diana; Perales, F.; Bassa, P.; Zanlongo, Mauro

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85863-8_44

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“…will enable consumers to spend less time to perform these actions. Moreover, because communication with a DPA does not require any special knowledge or skills (the only requirement is the ability to maintain a conversation), which allows interaction with them without any difficulties, children, elderly people and people with disabilities can access different services more easily than before (Fiol-Roig et al 2009;Yaghoubzadeh et al 2013;Costa et al 2014).…”

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“…DPA's ability and improvement on managing tasks, reminding specific memories and managing calendar are researched widely in recent decade (Yorke-Smith et al 2009;Yaghoubzadeh et al 2013;Brewer et al 2017;Rong et al 2017). Some researches focused on developing DPAs for helping elderly and cognitive/physical impaired users (Fiol-Roig et al 2009;Yaghoubzadeh et al 2013;Costa et al 2014). Others devoted on specific functions as assisting maintenance of household appliances (Fruend et al 2001), telling customized stories to children (Adam & Cavedon 2015), and planning activities aiming to build long-term relationship with users (Coon et al 2013).…”

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The brave new world of digital personal assistants: benefits and challenges from an economic perspective

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The paper applies economic theories to give an overview of the emerging phenomenon of digital personal assistants (DPAs). A DPA is an intelligent automated system that interacts with the user through a dialogue in natural language, and meanwhile applying third-party services to obtain information and perform various actions. We analyze the benefits of increasing usage of DPAs, such as reduction of transaction costs, enhanced organization efficiency, procompetitive effects, and boosting the e-commerce economy. Besides benefits, however, adopting DPA in life may also contain some risks and downsides, which may reduce the positive welfare effects or even lead to decreasing welfare: biased services, market power on the DPA market and economic dependence on a dominant DPA, potential leveraging of DPA suppliers' market power into neighboring markets, personalized data (ab)use and privacy, media bias and manipulation of public opinion.

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“…8,10,[12][13][14][15]24 , 26,29 The communication component reports the discovered situation to the elder, emergency services, or relatives. 2,21,30,31 This paper focuses on the interpretation component, marked in gray in Fig. 1.…”

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A Multi-Agent Care System to Support Independent Living

Kaluža

Cvetković

Dovgan

et al. 2014

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools

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This paper presents a context-aware, multi-agent system called “Confidence” that helps elderly people remain independent longer by detecting falls and unusual movement, which may indicate a health problem. The system combines state-of-the-art sensor technologies and four groups of agents providing a reliable, robust, flexible monitoring system. It can call for help in case of an emergency, and issue warnings if unusual behavior is detected. The first group gathers data from the location and inertial sensors and suppresses noise. The second group reconstructs the position and activity of a person and detects the context. The third group assesses the person's condition in the environment and reacts to critical situations such as falls. The fourth group detects unusual behavior as an indicator of a potential health problem. The system was successfully tested on a scenario consisting of events that were difficult to recognize as falls, as well as in a scenario consisting of normal days and days when the person was ill. It was also demonstrated live several times, with excellent performance in complex situations.

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“…The Intelligent Butler -The main purpose of this project is to design an intelligent agent, the butler, for aiding disabled and elderly people in a virtual domotics environment [25]. The environment specification has a set of components and devices capable of generating perceptions as well as generating and/or receiving a set of actions.…”

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Group decision making and Quality-of-Information in e-Health systems

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Nováis

Costa

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Logic Journal of IGPL

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Abstract. Knowledge is central to the modern economy and society. Indeed, the knowledge society has transformed the concept of knowledge and is more and more aware of the need to overcome the lack of knowledge when has to make options or address its problems and dilemmas. One`s knowledge is less based on exact facts and more on hypotheses, perceptions or indications. Even when we use new computational artefacts and novel methodologies for problem solving, like the use of Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS), the question of incomplete information is in most of the situations marginalized. On the other hand, common sense tells us that when a decision is made it is impossible to have a perception of all the information involved and the nature of its intrinsic quality. Therefore, something has to be made in terms of the information available and the process of its evaluation. It is under this framework that a Multi-valued Extended Logic Programming language will be used for knowledge representation and reasoning, leading to a model that embodies the Quality-of-Information (QoI) and its quantification, along the several stages of the decision making process. In this way it is possible to provide a measure of the value of the QoI that supports the decision itself. This model will be here presented in the context of a GDSS for VirtualECare, a system aimed at sustaining online healthcare services.

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The Intelligent Butler: A Virtual Agent for Disabled and Elderly People Assistance

Cited by 12 publications

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The brave new world of digital personal assistants: benefits and challenges from an economic perspective

The brave new world of digital personal assistants: benefits and challenges from an economic perspective

A Multi-Agent Care System to Support Independent Living

Group decision making and Quality-of-Information in e-Health systems

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