Multimodal bodily feeling analysis to design air conditioning services for elderly people

In order to create air conditioning service scenarios adaptive to elderly people, we have conducted detailed situational analyses focusing on bodily feeling information. The practical experimental environment has introduced our constructed indoor interaction system to understand situations based on bodily feeling and to control air conditioners properly. The experiments consists of 7 sessions participated by 6 elderly people have accumulated 228 times of bodily feeling inputs. The detailed analyses have done utilizing our developed multimodal behavior observation tool equipped with the functions of behavior description from multiple viewpoints and flexible retrieval. The analysis results indicate the possibility of correspondence of the scenes of situational changes in conversation like topic transitions and turn-taking events or those of reading to the changes of bodily feeling. The multimodal bodily feeling analysis has produced valuable findings to enhance situation understanding.