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Virtual Safety Assistant: An Efficient Tool for Ensuring Safety During Covid-19 Pandemic

Ramanathan, Manoj
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Singh, Aalind
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Suresh, Arathy
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January 1, 2022
Human-Computer Interaction: User Experience And Behavior, Pt Iii
Human Computer Interaction Thematic Area Conference Held as Part of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII)

Using intelligent virtual assistants for controlling employee population in workspaces is a research area that remains unexplored. This paper presents a novel application of virtual humans to enforce Covid-19 safety measures in a corporate workplace. For this purpose, we develop a virtual assistant platform, Chloe, equipped with automatic temperature sensing, facial recognition, and dedicated chatbots to act as an initial filter for ensuring public health. Whilst providing an engaging user interaction experience, Chloe minimizes human to human contact, thus reducing the spread of infectious diseases. Chloe restricts the employee population within the office to government-approved safety norms. We experimented with Chloe as a virtual safety assistant in a company, where she interacted and screened the employees for Covid-19 symptoms. Participants filled an online survey to quantify Chloe's performance in terms of interactivity, system latency, engagement, and accuracy, for which we received positive feedback. We performed statistical analysis on the survey results that reveal positive results and show effectiveness of Chloe in such applications. We detail system architecture, results and limitations.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-05412-9_37
Web of Science ID

WOS:000870104700036

Author(s)
Ramanathan, Manoj
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Singh, Aalind
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Suresh, Arathy
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Thalmann, Daniel  
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Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia  
Date Issued

2022-01-01

Publisher

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG

Publisher place

Cham

Published in
Human-Computer Interaction: User Experience And Behavior, Pt Iii
ISBN of the book

978-3-031-05412-9

978-3-031-05411-2

Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume

13304

Start page

546

End page

565

Subjects

Computer Science, Cybernetics

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Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Ergonomics

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Computer Science

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Engineering

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virtual human receptionist

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human computer interaction

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virtual embodied interaction

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covid-19 safety measures

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
VRLAB  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Human Computer Interaction Thematic Area Conference Held as Part of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII)

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Jun 26-Jul 01, 2022

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November 7, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/191981
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