Fan, GuoliangHowell, StevenWentz Research Scholars2023-05-152023-05-152023-04-27Howell, S., Fan, G. (2023) Supporting activities of daily life for seniors via ai assistant. Poster session presented at the Oklahoma State University Wentz Research Scholars Symposium, Stillwater, OK.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14446/337693The goal of this project was to improve human to machine communication with individuals who suffer from a decreased mental function as a result of dementia. The first step was to understand complex and fuzzy inputs made my user and route those to assistant's actions. The second step was to make communication more fluid however that proved to be more difficult than first anticipated and with the creation of ChatGPT dozens of new methods have been opened that were not available at the proposal stage of this project. Therefore the first part of the project was focused on and mostly accomplished.application/pdfIn the Oklahoma State University Library's institutional repository this paper is made available through the open access principles and the terms of agreement/consent between the author(s) and the publisher. The permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of the article falls under fair use for educational, scholarship, and research purposes. Contact Digital Resources and Discovery Services at lib-dls@okstate.edu or 405-744-9161 for further information.Posternatural language processingspeechnamed entity recognitionspeech classification\\senior assistance