vAssist: Building the Personal Assistant for Dependent People - Helping Dependent People to Cope with Technology through Speech Interaction

H. Sansen, J-l. Baldinger, J. Boudy, G. Chollet, P. Milhorat, S. Schlögl

2014

Abstract

Modern ICT solutions are capable of assisting dependent people at home and therefore able to replace the physical presence of a caregiver. However, the success of such solutions depends on an intuitive access to services. By proposing a speech-operated system and devices that facilitate this voice-based interaction, vAssist aims at a solution that corresponds to a virtual butler. The goal is to build a system with whom elderly users can interact naturally and even build up a social connection. Integrating modern language technology with a human-operated call center should allow for coping with current imperfect solutions and consequently offer the necessary reliability and user experience. vAssist is planned to be launched for German, Italian and French.

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in Harvard Style

Sansen H., Baldinger J., Boudy J., Chollet G., Milhorat P. and Schlögl S. (2014). vAssist: Building the Personal Assistant for Dependent People - Helping Dependent People to Cope with Technology through Speech Interaction . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-010-9, pages 490-495. DOI: 10.5220/0004912504900495


in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf14,
author={H. Sansen and J-l. Baldinger and J. Boudy and G. Chollet and P. Milhorat and S. Schlögl},
title={vAssist: Building the Personal Assistant for Dependent People - Helping Dependent People to Cope with Technology through Speech Interaction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={490-495},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004912504900495},
isbn={978-989-758-010-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014)
TI - vAssist: Building the Personal Assistant for Dependent People - Helping Dependent People to Cope with Technology through Speech Interaction
SN - 978-989-758-010-9
AU - Sansen H.
AU - Baldinger J.
AU - Boudy J.
AU - Chollet G.
AU - Milhorat P.
AU - Schlögl S.
PY - 2014
SP - 490
EP - 495
DO - 10.5220/0004912504900495