Bickmore, Tim
Robotic and Virtual Companions for Isolated Older Adults
Sidner, Candace (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | Rich, Charles (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | Shayganfar, Mohammad (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | Behrooz, Morteza (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | Bickmore, Tim (Northeastern University) | Ring, Lazlo (Northeastern University) | Zhang, Zessie (Northeastern University)
The agent is "always on," i.e. it is continuously available and aware (using a camera and infrared motion sensor) when the user is in its presence and can initiate interaction with the user, rather than requiring the user login to begin interaction. We expect that the agent will help reduce the user's isolation not just by always being around but also by specific activities that connect the user with friends, family and the local community. Our goal is for the agent to be a natural, humanlike presence that "resides" in the user's apartment. Beginning in the late summer of 2014, we will be placing our agents with users for a monthlong evaluation study. Figure 1: Virtual agent interface -- "Karen" Three issues of our project directly concern the topics of this workshop are: (1) the embodiment of the agent, (2) the engagement behaviors that are associated with being "always measures we will be using are questionnaires that assess the on," and (3) AI tools for support intelligent behavior.
AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium Reports
Abecker, Andreas, Alami, Rachid, Baral, Chitta, Bickmore, Tim, Durfee, Ed, Fong, Terry, Goker, Mehmet H., Green, Nancy, Liberman, Mark, Lebiere, Christian, Martin, James H., Mentzas, Gregoris, Musliner, Dave, Nicolov, Nicolas, Nourbakhsh, Illah, Salvetti, Franco, Shapiro, Daniel, Schrekenghost, Debbie, Sheth, Amit, Stojanovic, Ljiljana, SunSpiral, Vytas, Wray, Robert
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Computer Science Department, was pleased to present its 2006 Spring Symposium Series held March 27-29, 2006, at Stanford University, California.
AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium Reports
Abecker, Andreas, Alami, Rachid, Baral, Chitta, Bickmore, Tim, Durfee, Ed, Fong, Terry, Goker, Mehmet H., Green, Nancy, Liberman, Mark, Lebiere, Christian, Martin, James H., Mentzas, Gregoris, Musliner, Dave, Nicolov, Nicolas, Nourbakhsh, Illah, Salvetti, Franco, Shapiro, Daniel, Schrekenghost, Debbie, Sheth, Amit, Stojanovic, Ljiljana, SunSpiral, Vytas, Wray, Robert
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Computer Science Department, was pleased to present its 2006 Spring Symposium Series held March 27-29, 2006, at Stanford University, California. The titles of the eight symposia were (1) Argumentation for Consumers of Health Care (chaired by Nancy Green); (2) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI Hard Problems (chaired by Christian Lebiere); (3) Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs (chaired by Nicolas Nicolov); (4) Distributed Plan and Schedule Management (chaired by Ed Durfee); (5) Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge and Its Applications to Knowledge Representation and Question Answering (chaired by Chitta Baral); (6) Semantic Web Meets e-Government (chaired by Ljiljana Stojanovic); (7) To Boldly Go Where No Human-Robot Team Has Gone Before (chaired by Terry Fong); and (8) What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons from AI Research and Applications (chaired by Dan Shapiro).