(The Eurographics Association, 2018) Takase, Yutaka; Nakano, Yukiko I.; Yasuda, Kiyoshi; Huang, Tony and Otsuki, Mai and Servières, Myriam and Dey, Arindam and Sugiura, Yuta and Banakou, Domna and Michael-Grigoriou, Despina
In recent decades, the increasing number of elderly people with dementia has become a major social problem. Under such circumstances, virtual agent systems aimed at helping with mental health care for the elderly have attracted increasing attention. In this study, we propose a novel virtual agent system that encourages users' speaking about their reminiscences of their hometown or favorite places. The key idea is that the contents that the agent delivers (i.e., speaks) are generated automatically depending on the present and past information about the places in question.