Personal Healthcare Agents (PHA) will change people’s lives and revolutionize the way they manage their wellbeing and health. They will be able to sense the environment , the personal and social behavior , as well as the human organ systems. They will be elaborating, interpreting, summarizing and making sense of these signals and share it with you as well as your caregivers. They will be playing a key role in providing evidence for personalized therapies and in...

Conversational Agents, Language Understanding Systems, Affective Computing and more. The SIS Lab realizes intelligent and conversational machine prototypes. In this selection we give an overview of the research challenges and applications.

A study shows that facial emotions are encoded in the brains of people with autism (ASD). Published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, the joint University of Trento-Stony Brook University study dismantles some beliefs about brain functioning in people with ASD and opens up new scenarios to improve their relational life. With machine learning, a representation of the neural models that each brain applies to decode emotions has been created. Riccardi (University...

These days we hear a lot about conversations between machines and humans and how powerful they could be if they brought benefits to people. The Horizon 2020 project COADAPT was an ambitious project and brought together an Italian-Belgian-Finnish-Greek network of eleven partners. COADAPT’s mission was to support aging citizens to adapt to changing conditions in the workplace and personal life with diverse type of enabling technologies and systems. The research...