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The EMPATHIC project is devoted to the development of future generations of personalised virtual coaches to help elderly people to live independently. In this paper we describe a proposal to deal with the Dialogue Management of the EMPATHIC Virtual Coach. The paper describes a DM system capable of dealing with both long-term goals and well-being plans, that can implement an effective motivational model. The system to be put into practice aims for high level healthy-ageing, utilising expressive multi-modal dialogue tailored for each specific user, working in tandem with short-term goal-oriented dialogue.
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This work is founded by the European Commission H2020 SC1-PM15 program under RIA grant 769872.
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Torres, M.I., Olaso, J.M., Glackin, N., Justo, R., Chollet, G. (2019). A Spoken Dialogue System for the EMPATHIC Virtual Coach. In: D'Haro, L., Banchs, R., Li, H. (eds) 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 579. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9443-0_22
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