Over the past two weeks there’s been a lot of media attention about the Babbeltruc App. This tablet app was created by the Network Institute in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence (Tibor Bosse & Laura van der Lubbe) at the VU and the KBO-PCOB (a national elderly organisation) to help the elderly in coping with doorstep scams.
The app confronts the users with several scenarios where a virtual human tries to either gain access to their house or get sensitive information. The user has to choose from several possible answers at each step and is then asked to say aloud the chosen response. A newly developed algorithm (by Daniel Formolo, AI-CS-VU) will determine how assertive the response was spoken.
With all this information the app can advise the user in getting better at avoiding being scammed.

The Babbel Truc app in the news

VU Beta website
VU Centraal
De Telegraaf
KBO-PCOB
Max Vandaag
Telegraaf (video)
Noord Holland nieuws (@ 09:15m)