Listener Agent that Monitors Mental/Health Conditions of the Elderly with Dementia

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560291
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Seikei University
• Principal Investigator: Nakano Yukiko 成蹊大学, 理工学部, 教授 (40422505)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HAYASHI Yuki 大阪府立大学, 現代システム科学域・知識情報システム学類, 助教 (40633524)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 傾聴エージェント / 認知症高齢者 / 会話活動評価

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research developed conversational agents that can monitor the mental and health conditions of the elderly with Dementia through the conversation with the agent. The main outcomes of this research are as follows; (1) We developed two types of listener agents: animation agent and robot. (2) The animation agent was used at a care house for one month. (3) We proposed a prediction model, which uses speech and visual features, for assessing conversational activity of the elderly during interacting with a listener agent.

Free Research Field

会話エージェント