Phil Cohen
Eric Horvitz
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this panel is to explore issues that will arise in building future personal assistants (PAs), especially for family use. In this regard, we will consider implications of being an "assistant" and those of being "personal." The target timeframe is 3-10 years out, so that very near-term products will not be discussed. We will elaborate briefly on the kinds of communicative and inferential capabilities such PAs will need, and then examine their social and emotional capabilities. We will discuss pros and cons for their evolution and deployment. In this regard, we will discuss the kinds of support that could be provided by the HCI community in building personal assistant systems that are useful, delightful, functional, controllable, educational, ethical, and secure.
Index Terms
- On the Future of Personal Assistants
Recommendations
An agent-based approach to dialogue management in personal assistants
IUI '05: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfacesPersonal assistants need to allow the user to interact with the system in a flexible and adaptive way such as through spoken language dialogue. In this research we focus on an application in which the user can use a variety of devices to interact with a ...
Mixed-initiative Personal Assistants
SIGCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science EducationSpecification and implementation of flexible human-computer dialogs is challenging because of the complexity involved in rendering the dialog responsive to a vast number of varied paths through which users might desire to complete the dialog. To address ...
Multimodal Emotion Expressions of Virtual Agents, Mimic and Vocal Emotion Expressions and Their Effects on Emotion Recognition
ACII '13: Proceedings of the 2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent InteractionEmotional expressions of virtual agents are widely believed to enhance the interaction with the user by utilizing more natural means of communication. However, as a result of the current technology virtual agents are often only able to produce facial ...
Comments