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An Ambient Assisted Living Mobile Application for Helping People with Alzheimer

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems must provide adapted services easily accessible by a wide variety of users. This can only be possible if the communication between the user and the system is carried out through an interface that is simple, rapid, effective, and robust. Natural language interfaces such as mobile multimodal conversational agents fulfill these requisites, as they can emulate communication capabilities of a human being including several communication modalities, such as speech, tactile and visual interaction. In this paper, we present a multimodal application for Android mobile devices aimed to patients suffering from Alzheimer. This application helps them to enhance their memory and to stimulate their cognitive abilities.

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This work was supported in part by Projects MINECO TEC2012-37832-C02-01, CICYT TEC2011-28626-C02-02, CAM CONTEXTS (S2009/TIC-1485).

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  1. Computer Science Department, Carlos III University of Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad, 30, 28911, Leganés, Spain

    David Griol & José Manuel Molina

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    Javier Bajo

  2. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Kasper Hallenborg

  3. Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University, Poznan, Poland

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  4. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  6. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, CALDAS, Colombia

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  7. Lab. Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Lisbon, Portugal

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Griol, D., Molina, J.M. (2015). An Ambient Assisted Living Mobile Application for Helping People with Alzheimer. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability - The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 524. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19033-4_1

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