Abstract
Preventive care and telemedicine are expected to play an important role in reducing the impact of an increasingly aging global population while increasing the number of healthy years. Virtual coaching is a promising research area to support this process. This paper presents a user-centered virtual coach for older adults at home to promote active and healthy aging and independent living. It supports behavior change processes for improving on cognitive, physical, social interaction and nutrition areas using specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-limited (SMART) goal plans, following the I-Change behavioral change model. Older adults select and personalize which goal plans to join from a catalog designed by domain experts. Intervention delivery adapts to user preferences and minimizes intrusiveness in the user’s daily living using a combination of a deterministic algorithm and incremental machine learning model. The home becomes an augmented reality environment, using a combination of projectors, cameras, microphones and support sensors, where common objects are used for projection and sensed. Older adults interact with this virtual coach in their home in a natural way using speech and body gestures on projected user interfaces with common objects at home. This paper presents the concept from the older adult and the caregiver perspectives. Then, it focuses on the older adult view, describing the tools and processes available to foster a positive behavior change process, including a discussion about the limitations of the current implementation.
Highlights
According to data from World Population Prospects: the 2019 Revision presented by the United Nations [1], by 2050, one in six people in the world will be over age 65 (16%), up from one in 11 in 2019 (9%)
H2020 CAPTAIN is a research and innovation action project which pendently at home [23,24]. This VCS proposes a digitalization of the I-Chan pursues the creation of a virtual coach system to support older adults living independently will guide older adults towards the successful achievement of SMART
The CAPTAIN virtual coaching ecosystem is focused on supporting behavior change processes of older adult people towards active and healthy aging (AHA), to extend independent living quantitively and qualitatively
Summary
According to data from World Population Prospects: the 2019 Revision presented by the United Nations [1], by 2050, one in six people in the world will be over age 65 (16%), up from one in 11 in 2019 (9%). Goals m to Turner-Stokes [20], every sets lifelong that are able for the person, action-oriented, realistic, relevant, and time-limit considered goals that take a long time to achieve (i.e., years) H2020 CAPTAIN is a research and innovation action project which pendently at home [23,24] This VCS proposes a digitalization of the I-Chan pursues the creation of a virtual coach system to support older adults living independently will guide older adults towards the successful achievement of SMART go at home [23,24].
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