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COMPANIONS

COMPANIONS is a leading edge project funded by the EU to investigate, design and build artificial companions. These companions will interact with people in a very natural way helping them to navigate the increasingly complex internet, gathering information relevant to individuals and tailored to...

Members

Professor David Benyon

Professor

d.benyon@napier.ac.uk

+44 131 455 2736

Dr Oli Mival

Senior Research Fellow

o.mival@napier.ac.uk

+44 131 455 2761

Dr Alan Cannon

Research Fellow

a.cannon@napier.ac.uk

+44 131 455 2437

Ms Nena Roa-Seiler

Research Student

n.roa-seiler@napier.ac.uk

+44 131 455 2787

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: (Ed.) Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Prague, Czech Republic: . .

Webb, N., Benyon, D., Bradley, J., Hansen, P., Mival, O. (2010). Wizard of Oz Experiments for a Companion Dialogue System: Eliciting Companionable Conversation. In: (Ed.) In proceedings of LREC conference, , , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Malta: . .