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Wir im Kiez: Multimodal App for Mutual Help Among Elderly Neighbours Demonstrations / Schmeier, Sven / Ruß, Aaron / Reithinger, Norbert Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2015-11-09 p.379-380

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Summary: Elderly people often need support in everyday situations -- e.g. common daily life activities like taking care of house and garden, or caring for an animal are often not possible without a larger support circle. However, especially in larger western cities, local social networks may not be very tight, friends may have moved away or died, and the traditional support structures found in so-called multi-generational families do not exist anymore. As a result, the quality of life for elderly people suffers crucially. On the other hand, people from the broader neighborhood would often gladly help and respond quickly. With the project Wir im Kiez we developed and tested a multimodal social network app equipped with a conversational interface that addresses these issues. In the demonstration, we especially focus on the needs and restrictions of seniors, both in their physical and psychological limitations.

A Barrier-Free Platform to Help Elderly People to Help Themselves Design for Aging / Schmeier, Sven / Reithinger, Norbert HCI International 2014: 16th International Conference on HCI: Posters' Extended Abstracts, Part II 2014-06-22 v.5 p.316-321

Keywords: Barrier-free; seniors; conversational interface

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Summary: The proportion of elderly people in German society has been increasing for decades. As a result Germany, and other industrial countries as well, are currently facing large demographic changes in terms of age structure and population size, changes that will only increase in the future. Furthermore, especially in bigger cities, the traditional family structures with more generations living together are disappearing.
Starting from these observations, the project Barrierefreie Cloud für Senioren -- WirlmKiez (translated: A barrier-free Cloud for Seniors -- We in our neighbourhood), funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, aims to develop a platform where elderly people can get in touch with and help each other with everyday problems and issues. We plan to realise a virtual neighbourly help especially for elderly people who have no or very little social contact. Persons using the platform will be able to either provide support to others ("I can help to hang curtains", "I can help gardening", ...) or they can request for help ("I need to go to hospital for 4 days, who can take care of my cat"). The app will run on computers, smartphones, and tablets and will be very simple to use and appropriate for seniors. Its main features are creating a proposal or request by using natural language. Behind the scenes we will use shallow information extraction (IE) to extract the core information. After this we store the extracted information plus additional meta information like time and location on a central server (cloud). In the final step a generated request or proposal is offered to adequate users of the system, e.g. people who live nearby and are able to help or need help and connecting the persons in the end.

EDITED BOOK Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones: Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice / Mariani, Joseph / Rosset, Sophie / Garnier-Rizet, Martine / Devillers, Laurence 2014 p.397 Springer New York

ISBN: 978-1-4614-8279-6 (print), 978-1-4614-8280-2 (online)

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== Spoken Dialog Systems in Everyday Applications ==
Spoken Language Understanding for Natural Interaction: The Siri Experience (3-14)
	+ Bellegarda, Jerome R.
Development of Speech-Based In-Car HMI Concepts for Information Exchange Internet Apps (15-28)
	+ Hofmann, Hansjörg
	+ Silberstein, Anna
	+ Ehrlich, Ute
	+ Berton, André
	+ Müller, Christian
	+ Mahr, Angela
Real Users and Real Dialog Systems: The Hard Challenge for SDS (29-36)
	+ Black, Alan W.
	+ Eskenazi, Maxine
A Multimodal Multi-device Discourse and Dialogue Infrastructure for Collaborative Decision-Making in Medicine (37-47)
	+ Sonntag, Daniel
	+ Schulz, Christian
== Spoken Dialog Prototypes and Products ==
Yochina: Mobile Multimedia and Multimodal Crosslingual Dialogue System (51-57)
	+ Xu, Feiyu
	+ Schmeier, Sven
	+ Ai, Renlong
	+ Uszkoreit, Hans
Walk This Way: Spatial Grounding for City Exploration (59-67)
	+ Boye, Johan
	+ Fredriksson, Morgan
	+ Götze, Jana
	+ Gustafson, Joakim
	+ Königsmann, Jürgen
Multimodal Dialogue System for Interaction in AmI Environment by Means of File-Based Services (69-77)
	+ Ábalos, Nieves
	+ Espejo, Gonzalo
	+ López-Cózar, Ramón
	+ Ballesteros, Francisco J.
	+ Soriano, Enrique
	+ Guardiola, Gorka
Development of a Toolkit Handling Multiple Speech-Oriented Guidance Agents for Mobile Applications (79-85)
	+ Hara, Sunao
	+ Kawanami, Hiromichi
	+ Saruwatari, Hiroshi
	+ Shikano, Kiyohiro
Providing Interactive and User-Adapted E-City Services by Means of Voice Portals (87-98)
	+ Griol, David
	+ García-Jiménez, María
	+ Callejas, Zoraida
	+ López-Cózar, Ramón
== Multi-domain, Crosslingual Spoken Dialog Systems ==
Efficient Language Model Construction for Spoken Dialog Systems by Inducting Language Resources of Different Languages (101-110)
	+ Misu, Teruhisa
	+ Matsuda, Shigeki
	+ Mizukami, Etsuo
	+ Kashioka, Hideki
	+ Li, Haizhou
Towards Online Planning for Dialogue Management with Rich Domain Knowledge (111-123)
	+ Lison, Pierre
A Two-Step Approach for Efficient Domain Selection in Multi-Domain Dialog Systems (125-131)
	+ Lee, Injae
	+ Kim, Seokhwan
	+ Kim, Kyungduk
	+ Lee, Donghyeon
	+ Choi, Junhwi
	+ Ryu, Seonghan
	+ Lee, Gary Geunbae
== Human-Robot Interaction ==
From Informative Cooperative Dialogues to Long-Term Social Relation with a Robot (135-151)
	+ Buendia, Axel
	+ Devillers, Laurence
Integration of Multiple Sound Source Localization Results for Speaker Identification in Multiparty Dialogue System (153-165)
	+ Nakashima, Taichi
	+ Komatani, Kazunori
	+ Sato, Satoshi
Investigating the Social Facilitation Effect in Human--Robot Interaction (167-177)
	+ Wechsung, Ina
	+ Ehrenbrink, Patrick
	+ Schleicher, Robert
	+ Möller, Sebastian
More Than Just Words: Building a Chatty Robot (179-185)
	+ Gilmartin, Emer
	+ Campbell, Nick
Predicting When People Will Speak to a Humanoid Robot (187-198)
	+ Sugiyama, Takaaki
	+ Komatani, Kazunori
	+ Sato, Satoshi
Designing an Emotion Detection System for a Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction (199-211)
	+ Chastagnol, Clément
	+ Clavel, Céline
	+ Courgeon, Matthieu
	+ Devillers, Laurence
Multimodal Open-Domain Conversations with the Nao Robot (213-224)
	+ Jokinen, Kristiina
	+ Wilcock, Graham
Component Pluggable Dialogue Framework and Its Application to Social Robots (225-237)
	+ Jiang, Ridong
	+ Tan, Yeow Kee
	+ Limbu, Dilip Kumar
	+ Dung, Tran Anh
	+ Li, Haizhou
== Spoken Dialog Systems Components ==
Visual Contribution to Word Prominence Detection in a Playful Interaction Setting (241-247)
	+ Heckmann, Martin
Label Noise Robustness and Learning Speed in a Self-Learning Vocal User Interface (249-259)
	+ Ons, Bart
	+ Gemmeke, Jort F.
	+ Van hamme, Hugo
Topic Classification of Spoken Inquiries Using Transductive Support Vector Machine (261-267)
	+ Torres, Rafael
	+ Kawanami, Hiromichi
	+ Matsui, Tomoko
	+ Saruwatari, Hiroshi
	+ Shikano, Kiyohiro
Frame-Level Selective Decoding Using Native and Non-native Acoustic Models for Robust Speech Recognition to Native and Non-native Speech (269-274)
	+ Oh, Yoo Rhee
	+ Chung, Hoon
	+ Kang, Jeom-ja
	+ Lee, Yun Keun
Analysis of Speech Under Stress and Cognitive Load in USAR Operations (275-281)
	+ Charfuelan, Marcela
	+ Kruijff, Geert-Jan
== Dialog Management ==
Does Personality Matter? Expressive Generation for Dialogue Interaction (285-301)
	+ Walker, Marilyn A.
	+ Sawyer, Jennifer
	+ Lin, Grace
	+ Wing, Sam
Application and Evaluation of a Conditioned Hidden Markov Model for Estimating Interaction Quality of Spoken Dialogue Systems (303-312)
	+ Ultes, Stefan
	+ ElChab, Robert
	+ Minker, Wolfgang
FLoReS: A Forward Looking, Reward Seeking, Dialogue Manager (313-325)
	+ Morbini, Fabrizio
	+ DeVault, David
	+ Sagae, Kenji
	+ Gerten, Jillian
	+ Nazarian, Angela
	+ Traum, David
A Clustering Approach to Assess Real User Profiles in Spoken Dialogue Systems (327-334)
	+ Callejas, Zoraida
	+ Griol, David
	+ Engelbrecht, Klaus-Peter
	+ López-Cózar, Ramón
What Are They Achieving Through the Conversation? Modeling Guide--Tourist Dialogues by Extended Grounding Networks (335-341)
	+ Mizukami, Etsuo
	+ Kashioka, Hideki
Co-adaptation in Spoken Dialogue Systems (343-353)
	+ Chandramohan, Senthilkumar
	+ Geist, Matthieu
	+ Lefèvre, Fabrice
	+ Pietquin, Olivier
Developing Non-goal Dialog System Based on Examples of Drama Television (355-361)
	+ Nio, Lasguido
	+ Sakti, Sakriani
	+ Neubig, Graham
	+ Toda, Tomoki
	+ Adriani, Mirna
	+ Nakamura, Satoshi
A User Model for Dialog System Evaluation Based on Activation of Subgoals (363-374)
	+ Engelbrecht, Klaus-Peter
Real-Time Feedback System for Monitoring and Facilitating Discussions (375-387)
	+ Sarda, Sanat
	+ Constable, Martin
	+ Dauwels, Justin
	+ Shoko Dauwels (Okutsu), 	+ 
	+ Elgendi, Mohamed
	+ Mengyu, Zhou
	+ Rasheed, Umer
	+ Tahir, Yasir
	+ Thalmann, Daniel
	+ Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia
Evaluation of Invalid Input Discrimination Using Bag-of-Words for Speech-Oriented Guidance System (389-397)
	+ Majima, Haruka
	+ Torres, Rafael
	+ Kawanami, Hiromichi
	+ Hara, Sunao
	+ Matsui, Tomoko
	+ Saruwatari, Hiroshi
	+ Shikano, Kiyohiro

Computer Assistance in Bilingual Task-Oriented Human-Human Dialogues Voice, Natural Language and Dialogue / Schmeier, Sven / Rebel, Matthias / Ai, Renlong HCI International 2011: 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Part II: Interaction Techniques and Environments 2011-07-09 v.2 p.387-395

Keywords: language barriers; human-human dialogue system; health care

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Summary: In 2008, the percentage of people with a migration background in Germany had already reached more than 15% (12 Million people). Among that 15%, the ratio of seniors aged 50 years or older was 30% [1]. In most cases, their competence of the German language is adequate for dealing with everyday situations. However sometimes in emergency or medical situations, their knowledge of German is not sufficient to communicate with medical professionals and vice versa. These seniors are part of the main target group within the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) research project SmartSenior [2] and we have developed a software system that assists multilingual doctor-patient conversations to overcome language and cultural barriers. The main requirements of such a system are robustness, accurate translations in respect to context and mobility, adaptability to new languages and topics and of course an appropriate user interface. Furthermore, we have equipped the system with additional information to convey cultural facts about different countries. In this paper, we present the architecture and ideas behind the system as a whole as well as related work in the area of computer aided translation and a first evaluation of the system.

DiLiA -- The Digital Library Assistant Demos / Eichler, Kathrin / Hemsen, Holmer / Neumann, Günter / Reithinger, Norbert / Schmeier, Sven / Schumacher, Kinga / Seifert, Inessa ECDL 2010: Proceedings of the European Conference on Digital Libraries 2010-09-06 p.534-537

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Summary: In this paper we present the digital library assistant (DiLiA). The system aims at augmenting the search in digital libraries in several dimensions. In the project advanced information visualisation methods are developed for user controlled interactive search. The interaction model has been designed in a way that it is transparent to the user and easy to use. In addition, information extraction (IE) methods have been developed in DiLiA to make the content more easily accessible, this includes the identification and extraction of technical terms (TTs) -- single and multi word terms -- as well as the extraction of binary relations based on the extracted terms. In DiLiA we follow a hybrid information extraction approach -- a combination of metadata and document processing.