Go to ACL ARR 2025 February homepageChatWise: AI-Powered Engaging Conversations for Enhancing Senior Cognitive Wellbeing
Abstract: Cognitive health in older adults presents a growing challenge. While conversational interventions show feasibility in improving cognitive wellness, human caregiver resources remain overburdened. AI-based methods have shown promise in providing conversational support, yet existing work is limited to implicit strategy while lacking multi-turn support tailored to seniors. We improve prior art with an LLM-driven chatbot named ChatWise for older adults. It follows dual-level conversation reasoning at the inference phase to provide engaging companionship. ChatWise thrives in long-turn conversations, in contrast to conventional LLMs that primarily excel in short-turn exchanges. Grounded experiments show that ChatWise significantly enhances simulated users' cognitive and emotional status, including those with Mild Cognitive Impairment.
Paper Type: Short
Research Area: Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Research Area Keywords: conversational modeling
Contribution Types: NLP engineering experiment, Publicly available software and/or pre-trained models, Data analysis
Languages Studied: English
Submission Number: 4144
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