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      Introducing the Companions project: Intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet.

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      Agents, personalization, relationships
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            The Companions project is a 4 year, EU funded Framework Programme 6 project involving a consortium of 16 partners across 8 countries. Its aim is to develop a personalised conversational interface, one that knows and understands its owner, and can access resources on the Internet. It does this whilst nurturing an emotional, psychological and social involvement from its owner (user seems an inappropriate term in this context). In doing this it will change interactions to relationships. On a technical level it intends to push the state of the art in machine based natural language understanding, knowledge structures, speech recognition and text to speech.

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            Conference
            September 2007
            September 2007
            : 1-2
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            [0001]Centre for Interaction Design

            Napier University, Edinburgh

            +44 131 455 2736
            [0002]Centre for Interaction Design

            Napier University, Edinburgh

            +44 131 455 2438
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            10.14236/ewic/HCI2007.36
            830046bb-65ce-4f39-81ec-7d8630eedaab
            © David Benyon et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

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            Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK
            HCI
            21
            Lancaster, UK
            3 - 7 September 2007
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            British HCI Group Annual Conference
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Agents,personalization,relationships

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