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Research on Smart Speaker Speech Interaction in the Therapy of Senior with Early Dementia

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Chinese CHI '20: Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop of Chinese CHI

Pages 40 - 46

https://doi.org/10.1145/3403676.3403681

Published: 23 October 2020 Publication History

Abstract

As China enters an aging society, aging diseases such as dementia are increasingly plaguing the patients. The clinical data show that non-drug reminiscence therapy has a positive effect on the relief of early age dementia. Since intelligent speakers can provide content such as music and videos, it is beneficial to forming a nostalgic content library. With the speech interaction on the speakers, it can simulate reminiscence therapy scenarios. First, speech interaction makes it easier for senior patients to learn how to use it. Second, speech interaction can help the patients speak and communicate frequently, make reminiscence therapy at high frequency, and alleviate the deterioration of dementia. Intelligent speakers are expected to assist in caring of the patients and reduce the labor costs. Based on reminiscence therapy and combination of senior's interaction features of intelligent speech, this paper studies the design of speech.

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Zhai YZhang JJeung J(2024)Exploring Older Adults' Reminiscing with ChatGPT and Text-to-Image TechnologyProceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/3663548.3688521(1-7)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663548.3688521
Hsu LBays JTsui KSabanovic S(2023)Co-designing Social Robots with People Living with Dementia: Fostering Identity, Connectedness, Security, and AutonomyProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3595987(2672-2688)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3595987
Jakob D(2022)Voice Controlled Devices and Older Adults – A Systematic Literature ReviewHuman Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design, Interaction and Technology Acceptance10.1007/978-3-031-05581-2_14(175-200)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-05581-2_14

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