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The number of aged people is increasing. The influence of solitude on both physical and mental health of those seniors is a social problem that needs an urgent solution in advanced societies. We propose a spoken dialogue robot that looks over elderly people through conversations by using functions of life-support via information navigation, attentive listening, and anomaly detection. In this paper, we describe a demonstration system implemented in the conversational robot.
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This work is supported by JST PRESTO (JPMJPR165B) and JST CREST (JPMJCR1513).
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Yoshino, K. et al. (2021). Spoken Dialogue Robot for Watching Daily Life of Elderly People. In: Marchi, E., Siniscalchi, S.M., Cumani, S., Salerno, V.M., Li, H. (eds) Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 714. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9323-9_12
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