An Assistive Conversation Skills Training System for Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease
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We describe research in progress on a dialogue system that simulates social conversation between animated characters representing a person with Alzheimer's Disease and his caregiver. The goal of the research is to enable caregivers to practice techniques to improve their assistive conversational skills. These skills are expected to reduce caregiver stress and to improve the quality of life of persons with AD.
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Dialogue Generation in an Assistive Conversation Skills Training System for Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease
We describe a proposed assistive conversational skills training system using artificial intelligence and natural language generation techniques to simulate spoken dialogue between two embodied agents, one character representing a caregiver and the other character a person with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The type of dialogue simulated is social conversation in which the caregiver encourages the p...
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