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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

13. LAST MINUTE: An Empirical Experiment in User-Companion Interaction and Its Evaluation

Authors : Jörg Frommer, Dietmar Rösner, Rico Andrich, Rafael Friesen, Stephan Günther, Matthias Haase, Julia Krüger

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Abstract

The LAST MINUTE Corpus (LMC) is a unique resource for research on issues of Companion-technology. LMC not only comprises 57.5 h of multimodal recordings (audio, video, psycho-biological data) from interactions between users—133 subjects in sum, balanced in age and gender—and a WoZ-simulated speech-based interactive dialogue system. LMC also includes full verbatim transcripts of all these dialogues, sociodemographic and psychometric data of all subjects as well as material from 73 in-depth user interviews focusing the user’s individual experience of the interaction. In this chapter the experimental design and data collection of the LMC are shortly introduced. On this basis, exemplifying results from semantic analyses of the dialogue transcripts as well as from qualitative analyses of the interview material are presented. These illustrate LMC’s potential for investigations from numerous research perspectives.

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Footnotes
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Some subjects try to unpack items before it is necessary, but these are only single cases.
 
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The distribution is visualized here—and in other figures—as a trellis boxplot: the rectangles represent the interquartile range (i.e. the range of 25% of the values above and below the median resp.); the filled dot gives the median; the whiskers extending the rectangle extend to the range of values, but maximally to 1.5 of the interquartile range; outlier values beyond the maximal whisker range are given as unfilled dots (cf. [1]).
 
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Unless noted otherwise, all statistical tests and calculations have been performed with the R, language [1, 25].
 
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In order to maximize variance, interviews were chosen randomly one by one considering a balanced allocation of groups according to the qualitative sample plan (cf. Sect. 13.3.4). When no more increase of variance could be detected, no further material was added (criterion of theoretical saturation).
 
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Participant’s initials.
 
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Metadata
Title
LAST MINUTE: An Empirical Experiment in User-Companion Interaction and Its Evaluation
Authors
Jörg Frommer
Dietmar Rösner
Rico Andrich
Rafael Friesen
Stephan Günther
Matthias Haase
Julia Krüger
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Companion Technology

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-43664-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-43665-4

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43665-4_13

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