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A Survey of Cognitive Assistants

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Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies

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Cognitive Assistants is a subset area of Personal Assistants focused on ubiquitous and pervasive platforms and services. They are aimed at elderly people’s needs, habits, and emotions by being dynamic, adaptive, sensitive, and responsive. These advances make cognitive assistants a true candidate of being used in real scenarios and help elderly people at home and outside environments. This survey will discuss the cognitive assistants’ emergence in order to provide a list of new projects being developed on this area. We summarize and enumerate the state-of-the-art projects. Moreover, we discuss how technology support the elderly affected by physical or mental disabilities or chronic diseases.

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Angelo Costa thanks the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) the Post-Doc scholarship with the Ref. SFRH/BPD/102696/2014. This work is also supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013 and partially supported by the MINECO/FEDER TIN2015-65515-C4-1-R.

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Costa, A., Novais, P., Julian, V. (2018). A Survey of Cognitive Assistants. In: Costa, A., Julian, V., Novais, P. (eds) Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 132. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62530-0_1

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