TY - JOUR
T1 - Virtual partners for seniors
T2 - Analysis of the users' preferences and expectations on personality and appearance
AU - Cereghetti, Donato M.
AU - Kleanthous, Styliani
AU - Christophorou, Christophoros
AU - Tsiourti, Christiana
AU - Wings, Cindy
AU - Christodoulou, Eleni
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper investigates the preferences and the expectations of endusers related to the appearance and personality of a Virtual Support Partner (VSP); namely an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) that attends to the daily activities of the seniors. The results presented in this paper, reveal that end users are in favor of an emphatic, emotional and friendly companion, preferably represented by a human-like or an animal-like body, that provides to them both social support and abistance through a guiding attitude.
AB - This paper investigates the preferences and the expectations of endusers related to the appearance and personality of a Virtual Support Partner (VSP); namely an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) that attends to the daily activities of the seniors. The results presented in this paper, reveal that end users are in favor of an emphatic, emotional and friendly companion, preferably represented by a human-like or an animal-like body, that provides to them both social support and abistance through a guiding attitude.
KW - Caregivers
KW - Embodied Conversational Agents
KW - End-Users
KW - Seniors
KW - User-Centred Design
KW - Virtual Partners
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84961798942&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84961798942
SN - 1613-0073
VL - 1528
JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
ER -