ACILIA will be a low-cost kit with SaaS platform that integrates an embodied conversational agent using AI capabilities to provide educational information and emotional coping support

ACILIA 将是一个带有 SaaS 平台的低成本套件，集成了使用人工智能功能的具体对话代理，以提供教育信息和情感应对支持

• 批准号: 10083570
• 负责人: Tony Xuyen Ma
• 金额: $ 54.91万
• 依托单位: BENTEN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10083570
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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Currently, 5.7 million people live with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) in the United States, and this number is projected to reach 13.8 million by 2050. Two-thirds of individuals with ADRD live at home and as a result, approximately 15 million unpaid care partners, mostly family members, are increasingly required to perform complex tasks which causes them significant stress. The major contributors to care partners’ stress are: 1) having low confidence in their competency in their caregiving tasks, such as managing activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) and behavioral symptoms of ADRD as they change over the course of the disease and 2) being socially isolated with feelings of loneliness. Benten proposes to address these problems through creation of the Avatar Companion to Improve the Lives of Informal care partners of individuals with Alzheimer’s (ACILIA), a home kit with SaaS platform that integrates an embodied conversational agent using AI capabilities (i.e., emotion analysis, sentiment analysis and life-long machine learning [L3] algorithm), with home speakers, a smart watch, and mobile app, to support the CPs on the care journey. ACILIA will provide just-in--time guidance and support to care partners in addition to stage- appropriate education and training on how to manage caregiving tasks. It will also engage in natural conversations with the care partners detecting sentiments of stress and offering advice and support and connection to a virtual community. ACILIA aims to assist in reducing the family care partners’ stress levels by improving their competency and capabilities in providing care and by providing companionship and support, which will reflect positively on their quality of life and that of their loved ones living with ADRD and aging in place. During this Phase I project, we will develop of a prototype ACILIA using input from an advisory board of informal care partners and people living with ADRD. We will also conduct a pilot test for feasibility of ACILIA among 20 individuals who are in early-middle stage ADRD and their informal care partners to evaluate the usability and acceptance of ACILIA prototype. Successful completion of Phase I will lead to Phase II and evaluating its outcomes. improving informal care partners’ competency, reducing their feeling of loneliness, and reducing their stress levels in an adequately powered randomized controlled trial (RCT).

项目摘要/摘要 目前，美国有570万人患有阿尔茨海默氏病和相关痴呆症（ADRD）， 到2050年，这个数字预计将达到1380万。三分之二的人居住在家中， 结果，越来越需要大约1500万未付护理伙伴（主要是家庭成员） 执行复杂的任务，从而引起他们的重大压力。护理伙伴压力的主要因素是： 1）对他们在护理任务中的能力有较低的信心，例如管理日常活动 生活（ADL），日常生活的乐器活动（IADL）和ADRD的行为症状随着改变而改变 在整个疾病过程中，2）在社会上以孤独感被孤立。 Benten提议通过创建Avatar伴侣来解决这些问题，以改善 Alzheimer's（acilia）的个人的非正式护理伙伴，这是一个带有SaaS平台的家庭套件 使用AI功能（即情绪分析，情感分析和终身）体现的对话剂 机器学习[L3]算法），带有家用扬声器，智能手表和移动应用程序，以支持CPS上的CPS 护理旅程。 Acilia除阶段外，还将为护理伙伴提供准时的指导和支持 - 适当的教育和有关如何管理护理任务的培训。它也将自然参与 与护理合作伙伴的对话，发现压力和提供建议和支持的观点以及 与虚拟社区的联系。 Acilia旨在通过通过 提高他们在提供护理以及提供伙伴关系和支持方面的能力和能力， 这将积极地反映出他们的生活质量以及与ADRD和衰老相处的亲人的生活质量。 在这个阶段I项目中，我们将使用非正式咨询委员会的意见来开发原型acilia 关怀伙伴和与Adrd一起生活的人。我们还将在20个 正处于中间阶段的个人及其非正式护理伙伴，以评估可用性和 接受acilia原型。成功完成第一阶段将导致第二阶段并评估其 结果。提高非正式护理伙伴的能力，降低他们的孤独感并减少他们的能力 在足够动力的随机对照试验（RCT）中的应力水平。