Social support agents for older adults: longitudinal affective computing in the home

Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 79-88

  Ring, Lazlo ^a   Shi, Lin ^a   Totzke, Kathleen ^a   Bickmore, Timothy ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective computing; ECA; Older adults; Social interfaces

Indexed keywords

MOTION SENSORS;

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; MULTIMODAL CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; OLDER ADULTS; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; SOCIAL INTERFACES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIETAL PROBLEMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84925290578     PISSN: 17837677     EISSN: 17838738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12193-014-0157-0     Document Type: Article

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