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1. The EMPATHIC Virtual Coach: A demo

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Sergio Escalera, Stephan Schlögl, Cristina Palmero, Gary Cahalane, Leila Ben Letaifa, Alain Vázquez, Raquel Justo, Anna Esposito, Kristin Beck Gjellesvik, Pau Buch, Asier López-Zorrilla, Gérard Chollet, Eduardo González-Fraile, Maria Stylianou Kornes, Cornelius Glackin, Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Begona Fernandez-Ruanova, Cesar Montenegro, Javier Mikel Olaso, Gennaro Cordasco, María Inés Torres, Daria Kyslitska, Aymen Mtibaa, Jose A. Lozano, Colin Pickard, Jofre Tenorio-Laranga, Anaïs Fernandez, Mikel de Velasco, Roberto Santana, Olivier Deroo, Mohamed Amine Hmani, Anna Torp Johansen, Olga Gordeeva, Association for Computing Machinery, Olaso, J. M., Vazquez, A., Ben Letaifa, L., De Velasco, M., Mtibaa, A., Hmani, M. A., Petrovska-Delacretaz, D., Chollet, G., Montenegro, C., Lopez-Zorrilla, A., Justo, R., Santana, R., Tenorio-Laranga, J., Gonzalez-Fraile, E., Fernandez-Ruanova, B., Cordasco, G., Esposito, A., Gjellesvik, K. B., Johansen, A. T., Kornes, M. S., Pickard, C., Glackin, C., Cahalane, G., Buch, P., Palmero, C., Escalera, S., Gordeeva, O., Deroo, O., Fernandez, A., Kyslitska, D., Lozano, J. A., Torres, M. I., and Schlogl, S.

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empathic communication, business.industry, Computer science, elderly care, 05 social sciences, Applied psychology, 050301 education, Elderly care, GROW model, Coaching, interactive virtual coaching, ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS, Personal status, ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, business, 0503 education, 050107 human factors
Abstract

The main objective of the EMPATHIC project has been the design and development of a virtual coach to engage the healthy-senior user and to enhance well-being through awareness of personal status. The EMPATHIC approach addresses this objective through multimodal interactions supported by the GROW coaching model. The paper summarizes the main components of the EMPATHIC Virtual Coach (EMPATHIC-VC) and introduces a demonstration of the coaching sessions in selected scenarios.

Published
2021

2. Analysis of the interaction between elderly people and a simulated virtual coach

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Begoña Fernandez Ruanova, Mikel De Velasco Vázquez, Anna Torp Johansen, Sergio Escalera, Eduardo González Fraile, Maria Stylianou Korsnes, Stephan Schlögl, Micaela Silva, Leila Zouari, Anna Esposito, Cristina Palmero, Gennaro Cordasco, Joffre Tenorio Laranga, María Inés Torres Barañano, Raquel Justo Blanco, Alain Vázquez Risco, European Commission, Justo, R, Ben Letaifa, L, Palmero, C., Gonzalez-Fraile, E, Torp Johansen, A., Vázquez, A., Cordasco, G., Schlögl, S., Fernández-Ruanova, B., Silva, M., Escalera, S., Develasco, M., Tenorio-Laranga, J., Esposito, A., Korsnes, M., and Torres, M. I.

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Emotional analysis from speech, Human behavior analysis, Human–machine interaction, Language and face, Spanish, human behavior analysis, General Computer Science, Operations research, Horizon (archaeology), Computer science, 05 social sciences, Computational intelligence, 02 engineering and technology, spanish, emotional analysis from speech, language and face, Human machine interaction, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Elderly people, media_common.cataloged_instance, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, European union, 050107 human factors, science, media_common, human-machine interaction
Abstract

The EMPATHIC project develops and validates new interaction paradigms for personalized virtual coaches (VC) to promote healthy and independent aging. To this end, the work presented in this paper is aimed to analyze the interaction between the EMPATHIC-VC and the users. One of the goals of the project is to ensure an end-user driven design, involving senior users from the beginning and during each phase of the project. Thus, the paper focuses on some sessions where the seniors carried out interactions with a Wizard of Oz driven, simulated system. A coaching strategy based on the GROW model was used throughout these sessions so as to guide interactions and engage the elderly with the goals of the project. In this interaction framework, both the human and the system behavior were analyzed. The way the wizard implements the GROW coaching strategy is a key aspect of the system behavior during the interaction. The language used by the virtual agent as well as his or her physical aspect are also important cues that were analyzed. Regarding the user behavior, the vocal communication provides information about the speaker's emotional status, that is closely related to human behavior and which can be extracted from the speech and language analysis. In the same way, the analysis of the facial expression, gazes and gestures can provide information on the non verbal human communication even when the user is not talking. In addition, in order to engage senior users, their preferences and likes had to be considered. To this end, the effect of the VC on the users was gathered by means of direct questionnaires. These analyses have shown a positive and calm behavior of users when interacting with the simulated virtual coach as well as some difficulties of the system to develop the proposed coaching strategy. The research presented in this paper is conducted as part of the project EMPATHIC that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 769872.

Published
2020

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