A conversational virtual human as autonomous assistant for elderly and cognitively impaired users? Social acceptability and design considerations

Kramer M, Yaghoubzadeh R, Kopp S, Pitsch K. A conversational virtual human as autonomous assistant for elderly and cognitively impaired users? Social acceptability and design considerations. In: Horbach M, ed. INFORMATIK 2013. Informatik angepasst an Mensch, Organisation und Umwelt, 16.–20. September 2013 Koblenz, Germany. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). Proceedings. Vol 220. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik; 2013: 1105-1119

EEGs as potential predictors of virtual agents' acceptance

Over the last decade, much effort has been made to develop robots and virtual agents acting as assistants of elderly people in order to support them in their daily activities. In this context users' acceptance of such virtual assistants is fundamental for engaging them in order to maximize the assistance's effectiveness and users' comfort. Therefore, improving assessment techniques for elders' acceptance of virtual agents is necessary for understanding the impressions they arouse and determining their design accordingly. This paper is a proposition to introduce an EEG emotion detection procedure to gain further insight in implementing effective virtual agents' acceptance