ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Interaction with a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing.
Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Service Design Strategies to Enhance Exercise Adherence in Extended Reality Interventions for Older Adults: Systematic Review.JMIR aging · 2026Pooled it
- Conversational agent-based interventions for lifestyle behavior modification in older adults: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Streamlining Sensor Technology: Focusing on Data Fusion and Emotion Evaluation in the e-VITA Project.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Empowering Smart Aging: Insights into the Technical Architecture of the e-VITA Virtual Coaching System for Older Adults.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- What about spiritual needs? Care robotics and spiritual care.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
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Abstract
Since life expectancy has increased significantly over the past century, society is being forced to discover innovative ways to support active aging and elderly care. The e-VITA project, which receives funding from both the European Union and Japan, is built on a cutting edge method of virtual coaching that focuses on the key areas of active and healthy aging. The requirements for the virtual coach were ascertained through a process of participatory design in workshops, focus groups, and living laboratories in Germany, France, Italy, and Japan. Several use cases were then chosen for development utilising the open-source Rasa framework. The system uses common representations such as Knowledge Bases and Knowledge Graphs to enable the integration of context, subject expertise, and multimodal data, and is available in English, German, French, Italian, and Japanese.
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