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Within the aging society in which we currently live, it is important to provide solutions to the emerging social and health problems. In this work, we propose a conceptual framework for an AI-assisted conversational agent that will be able to provide elderly people a validated early detection of cognitive impairment, implemented with widespread commercial smart speakers. Thereby, we aim to take another step toward achieving the concept of healthy lifestyle.
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This research was partially funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades under the grant reference FPU19/01981 (Formación de Profesorado Universitario). The Article Processing Charge (APC) was funded by the University of Vigo.
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Pacheco-Lorenzo, M.R., Valladares-Rodríguez, S., Anido-Rifón, L., Fernández-Iglesias, M.J. (2022). A Conceptual Framework Based on Conversational Agents for the Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment. In: Mathur, G., Bundele, M., Lalwani, M., Paprzycki, M. (eds) Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Applications. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6332-1_65
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