%0 Generic %1 sahlab2020designing %A Sahlab, Nada %A Sailer, Carla %A Jazdi, Nasser %A Weyrich, Michael %B 14. AUTOMED - Automation in Medical Engineering, 02.-03.03.2020, Lübeck %D 2020 %K 2020applikationen 2020ias ias %R 10.18416/AUTOMED.2020 %T Designing an elderly-appropriate voice control for a pill dispenser %U https://opencms.uni-stuttgart.de/fak5/ias/dokumente/publikationen/2020_Designing_an_elderly-appropriate_voice_control_for_a_pill_dispenser.pdf %X The demographic change poses technical, social and eco-nomic challenges, as more people require assistance for maintaining a healthy and good quality life. The emergence of technical assistance systems applying communication and information technologies as well as artificial intelli-gence present viable solutions for these challenges. The goal of this research work is to develop a concept for intel-ligent and user-centered assistance systems for the elderly at the example of a medication assistance system, a medi-cine cabinet as well as an automated walker. A significant aspect when designing the proposed assistance systems is their usability by the elderly. Although aging brings forth a gradual deterioration on a sensory, cognitive and muscular level, this declining process is variable for each individual as well as for one individual over time. An assistance sys-tem should, however, be made utilizable by everyone. One measure to develop an elderly-appropriate assistance sys-tem is to include a multimodal user interface. An interface is defined to be multimodal if it offers more than one inter-action method. This includes auditory, visual, and haptic interactions 1,2. Subsequently, the user can interact with the system regardless of the symptoms of aging which man-ifest over time 3. Another aspect is the ability for the el-derly to use the system and benefit from the emerging tech-nologies, without directly having to deal with its increas-ingly complex structure. Hiding the system’s complexity from the user is reasonable as many elderly people are not familiar with modern technologies. Arguing that both as-pects play a major role when designing an elderly-appro-priate and utilizable assistance system, applying voice con-trol can provide a natural access to an assistance system. It enables multimodality as well as ease of use as verbal com-munication is the default and natural communication method among humans. As an approach to make assistance systems elderly-appro-priate and -useable, in this contribution, we focus on de-signing voice control for the medication assistance system, namely, a pill dispenser.

@conference{sahlab2020designing, abstract = {The demographic change poses technical, social and eco-nomic challenges, as more people require assistance for maintaining a healthy and good quality life. The emergence of technical assistance systems applying communication and information technologies as well as artificial intelli-gence present viable solutions for these challenges. The goal of this research work is to develop a concept for intel-ligent and user-centered assistance systems for the elderly at the example of a medication assistance system, a medi-cine cabinet as well as an automated walker. A significant aspect when designing the proposed assistance systems is their usability by the elderly. Although aging brings forth a gradual deterioration on a sensory, cognitive and muscular level, this declining process is variable for each individual as well as for one individual over time. An assistance sys-tem should, however, be made utilizable by everyone. One measure to develop an elderly-appropriate assistance sys-tem is to include a multimodal user interface. An interface is defined to be multimodal if it offers more than one inter-action method. This includes auditory, visual, and haptic interactions [1,2]. Subsequently, the user can interact with the system regardless of the symptoms of aging which man-ifest over time [3]. Another aspect is the ability for the el-derly to use the system and benefit from the emerging tech-nologies, without directly having to deal with its increas-ingly complex structure. Hiding the system’s complexity from the user is reasonable as many elderly people are not familiar with modern technologies. Arguing that both as-pects play a major role when designing an elderly-appro-priate and utilizable assistance system, applying voice con-trol can provide a natural access to an assistance system. It enables multimodality as well as ease of use as verbal com-munication is the default and natural communication method among humans. As an approach to make assistance systems elderly-appro-priate and -useable, in this contribution, we focus on de-signing voice control for the medication assistance system, namely, a pill dispenser.}, added-at = {2020-11-16T13:30:57.000+0100}, author = {Sahlab, Nada and Sailer, Carla and Jazdi, Nasser and Weyrich, Michael}, biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2cf5394417eb83c463e8bb5d997204f0a/taylansngerli}, booktitle = {14. AUTOMED - Automation in Medical Engineering, 02.-03.03.2020, Lübeck}, doi = {10.18416/AUTOMED.2020}, interhash = {fd75dce586b9532a34e6111fb8c01d4a}, intrahash = {cf5394417eb83c463e8bb5d997204f0a}, keywords = {2020applikationen 2020ias ias}, timestamp = {2021-04-06T10:54:12.000+0200}, title = {Designing an elderly-appropriate voice control for a pill dispenser}, url = {https://opencms.uni-stuttgart.de/fak5/ias/dokumente/publikationen/2020_Designing_an_elderly-appropriate_voice_control_for_a_pill_dispenser.pdf}, year = 2020 }