Physically embodied conversational agents as health and fitness companions

Markku Turunen; Jaakko Hakulinen; Cameron Smith; Daniel Charlton; Li Zhang

Physically embodied conversational agents as health and fitness companions

Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

We present a physical multimodal conversational Companion in the area of health and fitness. Conversational spoken dialogues using physical agents provide a potential interface for applications which are aimed at motivating and supporting users. Open source software called jNabServer, which enables spoken and multimodal interaction with Nabaztag/tag wireless rabbits, is presented together with other software architecture solutions applied in the development of the Companion. We also present how the Companion manages interaction with the combination of a dialogue manager and a cognitive model.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 1 Jan 2008 → …

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Conference	Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Period	1/01/08 → …

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spoken dialogue systems
multimodality
software architectures
physical agent interfaces

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