KRISTINA, un asistente virtual para superar las barreras lingüísticas en la atención sanitaria

Dafa, Lehdia Mohamed; Baudracco, Chiara; Moragas, Ana; Llor Vila, Carles; Molero Trujillo, David; Vilanova Estrada, Pere

KRISTINA, un asistente virtual para superar las barreras lingüísticas en la atención sanitaria

Citation

Dafa LM, Baudracco C, Moragas A, Llor Vila C, Molero Trujillo D, Vilanova Estrada P. KRISTINA, un asistente virtual para superar las barreras lingüísticas en la atención sanitaria. Comunidad. 2017 Jul-Oct;19(2):10.

Abstract

Information and communication technologies are bringing about major breakthroughs and benefits in the health field. The KRISTINA (Knowledge-Based Information Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities) project is part of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020 and has received funding of three million euros from the European Commission. The main objective is to develop, through digital technologies, a multilingual agent with communicative functions to help immigrants overcome language barriers when seeking medical information on the network and contacting the health system. The targeted users are elderly people coming from Turkey to Germany, Polish caregivers working in Germany and Maghrebi migrants in Spain. The main functionalities of the first avatar prototype and its human interaction are currently being evaluated and tested by the main partners of the project consortium.