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MIRATAR: A Virtual Caregiver for Active and Healthy Ageing

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Despite the technology advances in the field of virtual assistant and activity monitoring devices, older adults are still reluctant to embrace this technology, specially when it comes to employ it to manage health-related issues. This paper presents a work in progress for a virtual caregiver, based on the Internet of Thing paradigm, that employs different technological solutions for information gathering and intervention delivery. The ultimate goal of this virtual caregiver is to support people empowerment to actively contribute to frailty and multimorbidity management and risk mitigation. To this end, user acceptance and willingness to use the propose solution has to be ensured. This work in progress starts with the hypothesis that by embedding the proposed technology in a smart mirror device will improve user acceptance and willingness to use. This paper presents the vision and overall architecture and future work will address the evaluation of user acceptance and the use intention.

This research was funded by H2020 European Union program under grant agreement No. 857159 (SHAPES project), by the Spanish MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033 grant TALENT-BELIEF (PID2020-116417RB-C44) and by GoodBrother COST action 19121.

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  1. Department of Technology and Information Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Maria J. Santofimia, Felix J. Villanueva, Javier Dorado, Ana Rubio, Jesus Fernández-Bermejo, Henry Llumiguano, Xavier del Toro & Juan C. Lopez

  2. School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

    Nirmalie Wiratunga

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Santofimia, M.J. et al. (2022). MIRATAR: A Virtual Caregiver for Active and Healthy Ageing. In: Mazzeo, P.L., Frontoni, E., Sclaroff, S., Distante, C. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 2022 Workshops. ICIAP 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13373. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13321-3_5

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