Developing Dialogue Agent Inquiring Barometer of Life in Self-care System for Developmental Disabilities

Abstract

The self-advocacy skills, i.e., skills for understanding herself/himself and explaining her/his own characteristics, are important for developmentally disabled people to adapt to society. In this paper, we have developed a self-care system that supports self-understanding of behavioral characteristics. Specifically, we develop a dialogue agent to find barometer of life (routine of life) necessary to understand ourselves. For the dialog agents, use Wikidata as a knowledge source because they need to understand high-level concepts in order to have a natural conversation. Moreover, understanding her/his own barometers of life by herself/himself is not easy. We assume that a function for virtual group work can support understanding what kind of barometers of life is possible. Therefore, we develop a function for virtual group work among multi-agents to refer to other users' barometers of life.