This book provides an overview of the current research in the interdisciplinary area of personal assistants (PA) and cognitively inspired systems.

A Survey of Cognitive Assistants.- Argumentation-based Personal Assistants for Ambient Assisted Living.- Kidney Care - A Personal Assistant Assessment.- Personalized Assistant for Cognitive Training of the Elderly.- Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview.- Personalized Visual Recognition via Wearables: A First Step toward Personal Perception Enhancement.- Intelligent personal assistant for educational material recommendation based on CBR.- An Overview to Human-Robot Interaction.- Bilateral trust-based collaboration between a physical robot and a virtual human through a unified platform for personal assistance to humans.- Emotion Detection and Regulation from Personal Assistant Robot in Smart Environment.- EDI for Consumers, Personal Assistants and Ambient Intelligence- The right to be forgotten.- Personal Assistants: Civil Liability and Dispute Resolution.