Study of Microservice Execution Framework Using Spoken Dialogue Agents

Japan is currently facing super-aging society and the assistive technology for self-help and mutual aid of the elderly is becoming urgent. The purpose of this paper is to build a system that can execute various services through dialogue with agents, in order to support elderly people who cannot use Internet services due to lack of access to devices. To achieve the goal, we discuss a framework for executing microservices using dialogue agents. More specifically, the framework consists of the next two essential elements: (1) Managing user information for the various microservices centrally. (2) Configuring the behavior of the agents when executing the services correctly. In the proposed method, we first discuss each element in detail. Then, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework by applying it to the actual integration of a dialogue agent and several microservices.