E-Seniors

This deliverable describes the methodology for the co-creation sessions, as per reference to Description of the Action part A]. The objective of WP6 is to foresee proactive stakeholder engagement in the project and define a strategy for the co-creation sessions. Co-creation sessions will take place in France, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands. They aim to identify: end-users’ requirements, elements for maximum usability and best design of the interface or the app. Several Focus Groups involving the different end users’ categories are proposed. Such Focus Groups will be held in different countries involved in the project, France, Ireland, Italy, and the Netherlands. Small-scale pilots will take place in France, the Netherlands and Belgium and will test the app with small groups of end-users to identify any possible issues and allow us to resolve them.

This paper outlines the EMPATHIC Research & Innovation project, which aims to research, innovate, explore and validate new interaction paradigms and plat-forms for future generations of Personalized Virtual Coaches to assist elderly people living independently at and around their home. Innovative multimodal face analytics, adaptive spoken dialogue systems, and natural language inter-faces are part of what the project investigates and innovates, aiming to help dependent aging persons and their carers. It will uses remote, non-intrusive technologies to extract physiological markers of emotional states and adapt respective coach responses. In doing so, it aims to develop causal models for emotionally believable coach-user interactions, which shall engage elders and thus keep off loneliness, sustain health, enhance quality of life, and simplify access to future telecare services. Through measurable end-user validations performed in Spain, Norway and France (and complementary user evaluations in Italy), the proposed methods and solutions will have to demonstrate useful-ness, reliability, flexibility and robustness.

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