Better Choice? Combining Speech and Touch in Multimodal Interaction for Elderly Persons

Cui Jian, Hui Shi, Nadine Sasse, Carsten Rachuy, Frank Schafmeister, Holger Schmidt, Nicole von Steinbüchel

2013

Abstract

This paper presents our work on developing, implementing and evaluating a multimodal interactive guidance system that features spoken language and touch-screen input for elderly persons. The development foundation of the system comprises two systematically designed and empirically improved aspects: a set of development guidelines for elderly-friendly multimodal interaction according to common ageing-related decline of important human abilities, and a hybrid dialogue modelling approach with a formal method triggering and agent-based management for the elderly-centered multimodal interaction. To evaluate the minutely developed and implemented system, an experimental study was conducted with thirty-three elderly persons and empirical data were analyzed by applying an adapted version of a general evaluation framework, which provided overall positive analysis results and validated our effort to develop an effective, efficient and elderly friendly multimodal interaction.

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Jian C., Shi H., Sasse N., Rachuy C., Schafmeister F., Schmidt H. and von Steinbüchel N. (2013). Better Choice? Combining Speech and Touch in Multimodal Interaction for Elderly Persons . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-37-2, pages 94-103. DOI: 10.5220/0004244800940103


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@conference{healthinf13,
author={Cui Jian and Hui Shi and Nadine Sasse and Carsten Rachuy and Frank Schafmeister and Holger Schmidt and Nicole von Steinbüchel},
title={Better Choice? Combining Speech and Touch in Multimodal Interaction for Elderly Persons },
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={94-103},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004244800940103},
isbn={978-989-8565-37-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)
TI - Better Choice? Combining Speech and Touch in Multimodal Interaction for Elderly Persons
SN - 978-989-8565-37-2
AU - Jian C.
AU - Shi H.
AU - Sasse N.
AU - Rachuy C.
AU - Schafmeister F.
AU - Schmidt H.
AU - von Steinbüchel N.
PY - 2013
SP - 94
EP - 103
DO - 10.5220/0004244800940103