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

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..

Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008, April). Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships. Presented at Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '08

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.

Exploring Companion technologies. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2008, April). Exploring Companion technologies. Presented at AISB 2008 Convention Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence

Scenarios for Companions. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008, September). Scenarios for Companions

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..

Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2007, September). Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet

The Companions project is a 4 year, EU funded Framework
Programme 6 project involving a consortium of 16 partners
across 8 countries. Its aim is to develop a personalised
conversational interface, one that knows and understands its
owner, and can... Read More about Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet..

Personification technologies: developing artificial companions for older people. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mival, O., Cringean, S., & Benyon, D. (2004, April). Personification technologies: developing artificial companions for older people. Presented at Chi 2004, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This paper reports on the work of the UTOPIA project, a consortium of four Scottish universities concerned with technology issues for older people, focusing specifically on artificial companionship. The importance of companionship to the emotional an... Read More about Personification technologies: developing artificial companions for older people..

Domesticating technology: in-home requirements gathering with frail older people? (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dickinson, A., Goodman, J., Syme, A., Eisma, R., Tiwari, L., Mival, O., & Newell, A. (2003, June). Domesticating technology: in-home requirements gathering with frail older people?. Presented at 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, Crete, Greece

As technology becomes increasingly important as a means of supporting older people at home, the
dangers of distress caused by the introduction of inappropriate technology become greater. This
paper discusses the argument for ‘in-home’ research with... Read More about Domesticating technology: in-home requirements gathering with frail older people?.

Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eisma, R., Dickinson, A., Goodman, J., Mival, O., Syme, A., & Tiwari, L. (2003, March). Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people. Presented at Include 2003: an international conference on inclusive design for society and business, Royal College of Art, London

There are few guidelines on how to involve older people in the design process of new IT related products. In this paper we describe some of the difficulties encountered when working with older people, and introduce the concept of mutual inspiration,... Read More about Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people..