ADELE: Care and companionship for independent aging

Abstract

Dialogue system technology offers interesting prospects for services to seniors living independently. A spoken or text dialog system can support services such as monitoring medication adherence, fall prevention and reporting, exercise and wellbeing coaching, entertainment, companion-ship and the maintenance of social net-works. Such systems would amalgamate several different types of conversation or speech-exchange systems, from well-defined tasks to engaging talk. Knowledge of how these types of talk function is essential to system design. The ADELE project aims to build an agent, ADELE,which can provide a range of services to seniors. Below, we outline plans for the system and describe challenges we anticipate in implementing the system.