Next Seminar
Symposium on Big Data and Risk Assessors in Health and Social Care
28/06/2013 Friday 28 June, 09:30, Merchiston Campus
IIDI News
Michael Smyth is a keynote speaker at the Space.Beyond.Geometry Workshop at Edinburgh University
18/06/2013
Michael Smyth to chair the 2013 SICSA MMI Doctoral Consortium at University of Stirling
11/06/2013
COMPANIONS
01/11/2006 - 31/10/2010
The COMPANIONS project developed virtual Companions for conversation to change the way people think about the relationships between people, computers and the Internet. This work has resulted system that goes beyond traditional task-based interaction into the realm of social interaction.
COMPANIONS is a EU Framework Programmes project funded by EU Framework 6.
Carried out in collaboration with Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), As An Angel, Loquendo, France Telecom and others.
For further information please refer to http://www.companions-project.org/.
Related Projects
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Edinburgh Napier University's Centre for Interaction Design are working with Edinburgh Central Library to provide a new digital information guide for its visitors. The guide is an intuitive, large screen, multi-touch based interface to the extensive services, events and collections the library...
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IIDI is working by Freak Marketing supported by the BIE Innovation Fund.
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IIDI is working with ChatCloud supported by the BIE Innovation Voucher scheme.
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IIDI is working with Patient Reminders Limited supported the SFC Innovation Voucher scheme. Patient Reminders Limited provides patient reminder products and solutions for use in clinical studies, pharma marketing, public health, assisted living, safety surveillance, patient care and disease...
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The Norwegian National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design commissioned CID to design and develop a multi-user multi-touch application to help them educate school children on the methods used during architectural projects.
Collaborators 
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Global speech technology leader
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Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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State University of New York, Albany
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Telefónica provides communication, information and entertainment solutions, with presence in Europe and Latin America. It operates in 25 countries. As of June 2012, Telefónica’s total number of customers amounted to 311.8 million.
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University of Sheffield
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University of Tampere, Finland
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University of Teesside, UK.
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University of Washington, Seattle, US
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University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech republic
Areas of Expertise
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Expressive interaction describes the range of new forms of human-computer interaction that are made available through technologies based on speech, touch and gesture. The opportunities presented by these developments promise to be far-reaching, enabling new forms of interaction with information...
Project Team
Jay Bradley
(not currently an institute member)
Dr Paul Craig
(not currently an institute member)
Associated Publications
Benyon, D., Gamback, B., Hansen, P., Mival, O., Webb, N. (2013). How Was Your Day? Evaluating a Conversational Companion. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
Prescott1, T., Epton, T., Evers, V., McKee, K., Hawley, M., Webb, T., Benyon, D., Conran, S., Strand, R., Buning, M., Verschure, P., Dario, P., Group, t. (2012). Robot Companions For Citizens: Roadmapping The Potential For Future Robots In Empowering Older People. In: Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development. Prague, Czech Republic.
Smith, C., Crook, N., Dobnik, S., Charlton, D., Boye, J., Pulman, S., Camara, R., Turner, M., Benyon, D., Bradley, J., Mival, O., Gamback, B., Hansen, P., Webb, N., Cavazza, M. (2011). Interaction Strategies for an Affective Conversational Agent. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. Special issue on Virtual Environments and Mobile Robots, 20(5).
Keywords: companions,
emotion
