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Adaptive Grounding and Dialogue Management for Autonomous Conversational Assistants for Elderly Users

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015)

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People with age-related or congenital cognitive impairments require assistance in daily tasks to enable them to maintain a self-determined lifestyle in their own home. We developed and evaluated a prototype of an autonomous spoken dialogue assistant to support these user groups in the domain of week planning. Based on insights from previous work with a WOz study, we designed a dialogue system which caters to the interactional needs of these user groups. Subjects were able to interact successfully with the system and rated it as equivalent in terms of robustness and usability compared to the WOz prototype.

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    In this paper, we adopt the terminology recommended by ACM SIGACCESS [4].

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This research was partially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the project ‘VERSTANDEN’, by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the Center of Excellence ‘Cognitive Interaction Technology’ (CITEC), and by the Volkswagen Foundation.

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  1. Social Cognitive Systems Group, CITEC, Bielefeld University, P.O. Box 10 01 31, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Ramin Yaghoubzadeh & Stefan Kopp

  2. Institute for Communication Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 12, 45141, Essen, Germany

    Karola Pitsch

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Yaghoubzadeh, R., Pitsch, K., Kopp, S. (2015). Adaptive Grounding and Dialogue Management for Autonomous Conversational Assistants for Elderly Users. In: Brinkman, WP., Broekens, J., Heylen, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_3

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