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The Future of Companionable Agents

The Future of Companionable Agents

Roberta Catizone, Yorick Wilks
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781609606176|ISBN10: 1609606175|EISBN13: 9781609606183
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch017
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Catizone, Roberta, and Yorick Wilks. "The Future of Companionable Agents." Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices, edited by Diana Perez-Marin and Ismael Pascual-Nieto, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 379-394. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch017

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Catizone, R. & Wilks, Y. (2011). The Future of Companionable Agents. In D. Perez-Marin & I. Pascual-Nieto (Eds.), Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices (pp. 379-394). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch017

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Catizone, Roberta, and Yorick Wilks. "The Future of Companionable Agents." In Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices, edited by Diana Perez-Marin and Ismael Pascual-Nieto, 379-394. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch017

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Abstract

COMPANIONS is a concept that aims to change the way we think about the relationships of people to computers and the Internet by developing a virtual ’Companion’ to stand between individuals and the torrent of data on the Internet, including their own life information, which will soon be too large for people to handle easily without some new form of assistance. The Companion is intended as an agent or ’presence’ that stays with a user for periods of time, longer than in conventional task-based dialogue systems, developing a relationship and ’knowing’ and assisting its owner’s experiences, preferences, plans, and wishes. The Companions concept aims to model a fuller range of conversation than has been done hitherto, both task and non-task based, and discusses what properties people will want in a long term computer Companion that is also an Internet agent in a new form.

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