TY - GEN
T1 - Low-Cost Voice Assistant Design and Testing for Older Adults
AU - Farías-Barraza, Bárbara
AU - Reyes-Rogget, Marcelo
AU - López, Felipe A.
AU - López-Martínez, Ignacio N.
AU - Contreras-Bolton, Carlos
AU - Linfati, Rodrigo
AU - Gatica, Gustavo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - By the year 2050, at least 2 billion people will be over 60 years of age, making it one of the age groups of greatest concern. One of the biggest concerns of this group is loneliness and as a consequence of it, loss of autonomy and decreased daily activity. For this reason, we propose a virtual voice assistant made with open-source software and available technologies, allowing them to have accompaniment and improve interaction with technologies are proposed. Our development test had 89% correct answers and an estimated sale price of less than 150 USD. To test the assistant, we did tests with a group of older adults, who have no previous experience with this type of technology. Within our conclusions, the high willingness to use technologies by older adults is pointed out. Moreover, we conclude that the continuous use and greater confidence in technology motivates a more frequent use of it. Older adults have complexities with other languages, so voice assistants should prefer short, concise, and intuitive commands. Finally, it is concluded that social norms must be taken into account in this technology, otherwise, the error rate will increase.
AB - By the year 2050, at least 2 billion people will be over 60 years of age, making it one of the age groups of greatest concern. One of the biggest concerns of this group is loneliness and as a consequence of it, loss of autonomy and decreased daily activity. For this reason, we propose a virtual voice assistant made with open-source software and available technologies, allowing them to have accompaniment and improve interaction with technologies are proposed. Our development test had 89% correct answers and an estimated sale price of less than 150 USD. To test the assistant, we did tests with a group of older adults, who have no previous experience with this type of technology. Within our conclusions, the high willingness to use technologies by older adults is pointed out. Moreover, we conclude that the continuous use and greater confidence in technology motivates a more frequent use of it. Older adults have complexities with other languages, so voice assistants should prefer short, concise, and intuitive commands. Finally, it is concluded that social norms must be taken into account in this technology, otherwise, the error rate will increase.
KW - Ambient assisted living
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Older adults
KW - Smart home
KW - Voice assistant
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-10539-5_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-10539-5_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85135064827
SN - 9783031105388
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 107
EP - 122
BT - Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management - 21st International Conference, CISIM 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Saeed, Khalid
A2 - Dvorský, Jiří
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 21st International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, CISIM 2022
Y2 - 15 July 2022 through 17 July 2022
ER -