REA: A HEALTHCARE-ORIENTED VIRTUAL AGENT WITH DIALOGUE CAPABILITIES

Assisted living technologies have become increasingly popular in healthcare with the aim to improve patients’ quality of life. REA is a work in progress research project whose main innovation lies in the combination of smart monitoring solutions, such as activity recognition and physiological/lifestyle tracking, with an intelligent, socially competent virtual agent that aims to empower and motivate people in need through personalized feedback and responses, as well as to assist caregivers and clinicians to easily collect information about the patients.