Personal Assistants

Description

This book provides an overview of the current research in the interdisciplinary area of personal assistants (PA) and cognitively inspired systems. It discusses the most relevant topics in this highly diversified domain, like reasoning, health, personalization, robotics, and ethical and social issues. Personal assistants (PA) are a relatively new concept directed at people with cognitive or physical disabilities, and is expanding to include complex platforms such as sensors, actuators, monitoring abilities and decision processes. Designed for a general audience, it is also of interest to undergraduates, graduates and researchers involved with intelligent systems, ambient intelligence or ambient assisted living. The content goes from an introduction of the field (aimed at undergraduates and a general readership) to specific and complex architectures (aimed at graduates and researchers). Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Survey of Cognitive Assistants (Angelo Costa, Paulo Novais, Vicente Julian)....Pages 3-16 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Argumentation-Based Personal Assistants for Ambient Assisted Living (Stella Heras, Javier Palanca, Carlos Iván Chesñevar)....Pages 19-36 Kidney Care—A Personal Assistant Assessment (Bia Martins, Joao Rei, Miguel Braga, Antonio Abelha, Henrique Vicente, Joao Neves et al.)....Pages 37-54 Front Matter ....Pages 55-55 Visual Working Memory Training of the Elderly in VIRTRAEL Personalized Assistant (Miguel J. Hornos, Sandra Rute-Pérez, Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez, María Luisa Rodríguez-Almendros, María José Rodríguez-Fórtiz, Alfonso Caracuel)....Pages 57-76 Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview (Ester Martinez-Martin, Angel P. del Pobil)....Pages 77-91 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 Personalized Visual Recognition via Wearables: A First Step Toward Personal Perception Enhancement (Hosub Lee, Cameron Upright, Steven Eliuk, Alfred Kobsa)....Pages 95-112 Intelligent Personal Assistant for Educational Material Recommendation Based on CBR (Néstor Darío Duque Méndez, Paula Andrea Rodríguez Marín, Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza)....Pages 113-131 Front Matter ....Pages 133-133 Characterize a Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Personal Assistance (Dalila Durães, Javier Bajo, Paulo Novais)....Pages 135-147 Collaboration Between a Physical Robot and a Virtual Human Through a Unified Platform for Personal Assistance to Humans (S. M. Mizanoor Rahman)....Pages 149-177 Emotion Detection and Regulation from Personal Assistant Robot in Smart Environment (José Carlos Castillo, Álvaro Castro-González, Fernándo Alonso-Martín, Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Miguel Ángel Salichs)....Pages 179-195 Front Matter ....Pages 197-197 EDI for Consumers, Personal Assistants and Ambient Intelligence—The Right to Be Forgotten (Francisco Pacheco de Andrade, Teresa Coelho Moreira, Mikhail Bundin, Aleksei Martynov)....Pages 199-207 Personal Assistants: Civil Liability and Dispute Resolution (Marco Carvalho Gonçalves)....Pages 209-220