Outputs (8)

Human-Centred design of interactive services. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008). Human-Centred design of interactive services. In Proceedings HCI 2008, Manchester, September 2008

Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008). Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, presented at CHI 2008, Florence, April 2008 (3657-3662). https://doi.org

Personification technologies are technologies that encourage people to anthropomorphize. These technologies try to get people to form relationships with them rather than simply interact with them. They may do this through having behaviours that encou... Read More about Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships.

A novel architecture for designing by Wizard of Oz (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bradley, J., Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2008). A novel architecture for designing by Wizard of Oz. In Proceedings CREATE08, London, June 2008

Exploring Companion technologies. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2008). Exploring Companion technologies. In Proceedings of AISB2008

PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., Bradley, J., Roa-Seiler, N., & Benyon, D. (2008). PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. In Proceedings of CHI Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos Workshop

This short paper introduces the research of the 14 partner, EU Framework 6 project, COMPANIONS. It focuses on the development of PhotoPal, a multimodal system harnessing the cutting edge of speech recognition, natural language understanding and d... Read More about PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo..

Dialogue, speech and images: the Companions project data set. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilks, Y., Benyon, D., Brewster, C., Ircing, P., & Mival, O. (2008). Dialogue, speech and images: the Companions project data set. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

This paper describes part of the corpus collection efforts underway in the EC funded Companions project. The Companions project is collecting substantial quantities of dialogue a large part of which focus on reminiscing about photographs. The texts... Read More about Dialogue, speech and images: the Companions project data set..

The Companions paradigm as a method of eliciting and organising life data. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilks, Y., Catizone, R., & Mival, O. (2008, December). The Companions paradigm as a method of eliciting and organising life data. Presented at Workshop on Memories for Life, British Computer Society

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Scenarios for Companions. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008). Scenarios for Companions. In Austrian Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Vienna, September 2008 (1-38)

This paper is concerned with understanding the needs ofCompanion owners (the people formerly known as ‘users’) and in how thoserequirements can be represented, with the whole interaction design, with how the Companion will learn, or be instructed, so... Read More about Scenarios for Companions..