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Fig. 3.6 Activity assistant: The user, shown in the upper right corner , is captured by the XBOX
Kinect 3D camera and should follow the exercises of the trainer ( left )
perform, the more activity points they earn. These points are directly fed into the
nutrition assistant, i.e., the food suggestion depends on the users' individual energy
expenditure.
3.6 Conclusion and Discussion
In this chapter, we presented a health assistant that addresses the specific needs of
immigrants. The system consists of two parts: A health information system and a
prevention service. The health information system provides a search facility on a
semantic database to assist people in finding health-oriented information such as
details about services provided by the health insurance provider answers for specific
health-oriented questions. The system is mainly designed to assist immigrants with
limited knowledge of the national language used in their host country in finding rel-
evant information. Therefore, the system allows users to formulate search queries in
their mother tongue, the host's language, and in a mix of both languages. Addressing
the specific immigration situation in Germany, we focused on the implementation
of German and Turkish languages. Due to the structured data processing method
that is introduced in this chapter, other languages can easily be incorporated. Search