ANA: Automated Nursing Agent
Quinn, Kevin Francis · ERA: Education and Research Archive (University of Alberta) · 2014
Loneliness among the elderly is a growing problem in today's society. Many of them live in isolation either due to their ailments or losing loved ones. Measures need to be taken to improve the living condition of these people. We propose a system that engages in meaningful conversation with the elderly. This system can extract useful information from the dialogue as well as use past information to generate a response. In order to show our system can converse in a meaningful way we evaluate our system with two evaluation studies. The first examines the quality of the information extraction. The second puts the users in a scenario and actively engages in conversation with two agents.