The role of Conversational Agents and other digital technologies in healthy aging education

Abstract

We present a pioneering tool in the field of cognitive and mental health promotion that can be integrated with IoT devices to address the need for an adaptable and immersive training experience in formal and informal learning environments, such as large scale organizations and businesses, schools and universities. It is based on the dialogic form in acquiring knowledge, introduced by Socrates as a training and teaching methodology. The current tool is the product of a transdisciplinary research in the field of ICTs as reflected on Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Education and the Business Sector. It is also part of an innovative model of personal and professional development, called the 9-Layered Model of Giftedness, which originates mainly in Plato’s prompt to discover the nature of excellence and the ability to teach excellence through self-reflection and self-awareness.