MANA for the ageing

Authors:
David M. W. Powers;Martin H. Luerssen;Trent W. Lewis;Richard E. Leibbrandt;Marissa Milne;John Pashalis;Kenneth Treharne
Affiliations:
Flinders University, South Australia;Flinders University, South Australia;Flinders University, South Australia;Flinders University, South Australia;Flinders University, South Australia;Flinders University, South Australia;Flinders University, South Australia
Venue:
CDS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We present a family of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) using Talking Head technology, along with a program of associated research and user trials. Whilst antecedents of our current ECAs include "chatbots" desgined to pass the Turing Test (TT) or win a Loebner Prize (LP), our current agents are task-oriented Teaching Agents and Social Companions. The current focus for our research includes the role of emotion, expression and gesture in our agents/companions, the explicit teaching of such social skills as recognizing and displaying appropriate expressions/gestures, and the integration of template/database-based dialogue managers with more conversational TT/LP systems as well as with audio-visual speech/gesture recognition/synthesis technologies.