An activity-centric argumentation framework for assistive technology aimed at improving health

Abstract

Tailoring assistive systems for guiding and monitoring an individual in daily living activities is a complex task. This paper presents ALI, an assistive system combining a formal possibilistic argumentation system and an informal model of human activity: the Cultural-Historic Activity Theory, facilitating the delivery of tailored advices to a human actor. We follow an activity-centric approach, taking into consideration the human's motives, goals and prioritized actions. ALI tracks a person in order to I) determine what activities were performed over a period of time (activity recognition tracking), and II) send personalized notifications suggesting the most suitable activities to perform (decision-making monitoring). The ALI system was evaluated in a formative pilot study related to promote social activities and physical exercise.

Argumentation-Based Health Information Systems: A Design Methodology

“…For instance, in case a diagnosis-support system is implemented, expert opinions might be considered stronger than enduser self-assessments, because the latter can be considered as less reliable [6]. However, when designing a self-management mobile application, end-user preferences can be considered more important than expert opinions in some contexts, for example with regards to the configuration of daily schedules and motivational recommendations [7].…”

“…A particularity of patient-facing systems is that the recommendations provided and the actions executed by these systems must not only fulfill the quality standards of the healthcare domain, but also allow for informed dissent if the assumptions the system makes are not aligned with a patient's personal preferences or life circumstances. An instance of this system type is an argumentationenabled behavior change management personal assistant [7]. If the assistant recommends a user to do more physical exercise, the user should have the possibility to provide the feedback to the system that in the current situation, family responsibilities do not allow to act according to the recommendation.…”

Opportunities and challenges of using socially intelligent agents: increasing interaction and school participation for children suffering from a long-term illness

“…In healthcare, humanoid robots are designed and often used by individuals at home or at healthcare centres for improving their medical conditions (Choudhury et al, 2018). In various areas of therapy, for example, the use of AI technologies is a burgeoning area that has seen important developments over the last decade (Dautenhahn, 2003;D'Alfonso et al, 2017;Luxton, 2014;Guerrero et al, 2016;Blusi and Nieves, 2019;Loveys et al, 2019). AI in the form of SIAs is already under study as a therapy, particularly for children with autism and children with Asperger's syndrome.…”

Comfort or safety? Gathering and using the concerns of a participant for better persuasion

“…Finally, there are a number of studies that indicate the potential for dialogical argumentation in behaviour change applications including dialogue games for health promotion [16,[28][29][30], embodied conversational agents for encouraging exercise [61], and tailored assistive living systems for encouraging exercise [31].…”