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Design and Development of an Automated Coimagination Support System
Coimagination method is a novel approach to support interactive communication
for activating three (3) cognitive functions: episodic memory, division of
attention, and planning. These cognitive functions are known to decline at an
early stage of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In previous studies about the
coimagination method, experimenters tested different settings in different care
institutions. Out of these experiments, various measures were introduced,
analyzed, and presented. However, ease of changing configuration based on
participants, and a quick assessment of captured data remained challenging.
Also, several observers and measurers are needed to conduct the coimagination
method. In this paper, we propose the initial design and development of an
automated coimagination support system that can handle such challenges. We aim
to have an automated coimagination support system that can be used easily
either by healthy participants or elderly participants via a natural voice
interface. In this paper, our focus is to measure how well our proposed
features work with elderly participants. Preliminary experiments were conducted
with healthy participants, and notably, with actual elder participants. Healthy
participants experienced longer speaking round and question-and-answer round
than with elderly participants; while, the latter had preparation time before
the speaking round. In these preliminary experiments, our initial system showed
the capability to handle different configurations. Healthy participants have
operated the system using voice, while elderly participants managed to use the
system with minimal assistance.Comment: 6 pages, 9 figures, submitted to The 8th International Conference on
Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2020