All Outputs (5)

Wizard of Oz Experiments for a companion dialogue system: eliciting companionable conversation. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Webb, N., Benyon, D., Bradley, J., Hansen, P., & Mival, O. (2010). Wizard of Oz Experiments for a companion dialogue system: eliciting companionable conversation. In Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

Working within the EU funded COMPANIONS program, we report recent work with a Wizard of Oz (WoZ) dialogue collection system. COMPANION systems require complex models of dialogue, and new models of evaluation. Wizard of Oz dialogues give us a mechani... Read More about Wizard of Oz Experiments for a companion dialogue system: eliciting companionable conversation..

Companions and new forms of interaction design. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Mival, O., & Bradley, J. (2009). Companions and new forms of interaction design. In Proceedings The European Future Technologies Conference, FET09, Prague, April 2009

Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Bradley, J., Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2009). Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions. In Proceedings British HCI 2009 (313-317)

Wizard of Oz experiments allow designers and developers to see the reactions of people as they interact with to-bedeveloped technologies. At the Centre for Interaction Design at Edinburgh Napier University we are developing a Wizard of Oz system... Read More about Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions..

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

PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
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..