Healthcare
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AI-powered wearables
❯Patient Assistance
❯Facilitating language learning of deaf people
Dialogue-based social care services for people with mental illness, dementia and the elderly living alone
AI situation explanation service for people with visual impairments
AI sign language interpretation system for people with hearing impairment
Facilitating language learning of deaf people
AI based text to speech services with personal voices for people with speech impairments
Facilitating language learning of deaf people
Goal:
Improved Customer ExperienceProblem addressed
An avatar and social robot interact with deaf babies for facilitating language
learning.
Scope of use case
Use of advanced and multimodal sensing ability to facilitate a complex task.
Description
The RAVE system is designed as a dual agent that uses a
physical robot and a virtual human to engage 6 m to 12 m old
deaf infants in linguistic interactions. The system was
bolstered by a perception system capable of estimating
infant attention and engagement through thermal imaging
and eye tracking. RAVE has been designed for and
experienced by a unique population (deaf infants) during a
three years of observation and the development of three case
studies.
This system has been successful at soliciting infant attention,
directing attention to the linguistic content, and keeping the
infant engaged for developmentally appropriate lengths of
time. Instances have also been observed of infants copying
robot behaviour, infants producing signs displayed by the
avatar, and infants producing signs that they had observed
the virtual human perform to the non-signing robot agent.
These initial experiences give hope that longer-term
exposure to a system based on this work may be able to
impact long-term learning in this unique population.
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