Collaborative Dialogue Agent for COPD Self-management in AMICA: A First Insight

This work presents the dialogue interface that is being developed for the AMICA project, aimed at self-management and follow-up of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This platform tries to overcome possible problems of interaction of patients by extending the traditional mouse and keyboard with new information-communication technologies such as natural dialogue. Since most of these patients are elderly, these technologies can help suit their users’ needs and overcome their impairment by providing more natural ways of interacting with technology. The first analyses suggest that dialogue models must be flexible enough to be adapted to requirements of natural language.

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