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Special Topic: Companion Dialogue Systems

Required Readings

  1. Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Simon Worgan, Alexiei Dingli, Roger Moore, Debora Field, Weiwei Cheng, A prototype for a conversational companion for reminiscing about images Computer Speech & Language, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-157.
  2. S. G. Pulman, J. Boye, M. Cavazza, C. Smith, R. S. de la Cámara ‘How was your day?’ CDS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems, pages 37-42.
  3. Candace L. Sidner, Timothy Bickmore, Bahador Nooraie, Charles Rich, Lazlo Ring, Mahni Shayganfar, and Laura Vardoulakis. 2018. Creating New Technologies for Companionable Agents to Support Isolated Older Adults. ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. 8, 3, Article 17 (July 2018),
  4. Carole Adam, Lawrence Cavedon, Lin Padgham, "Hello Emily, how are you today?": personalised dialogue in a toy to engage children in Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems(CDS '10), pages 19-24.

Other Readings
  1. Haasch, Axel, Sascha Hohenner, Sonja Hüwel, Marcus Kleinehagenbrock, Sebastian Lang, Ioannis Toptsis, Gernot A. Fink, Jannik Fritsch, Britta Wrede, and Gerhard Sagerer. Biron–the bielefeld robot companion. In Proc. Int. Workshop on Advances in Service Robotics, pp. 27-32. 2004.
  2. Legát, M. and Grůber, M. and Ircing, P. Wizard of Oz Data Collection for the Czech Senior Companion Dialogue System . Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, p. 1-4, University of Sheffield, 2008.
  3. Yorick Wilks Is a companion a distinctive kind of relationship with a machine? CDS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems, pages 13-18.
  4. Cavazza, Marc, Raul Santos De La Camara, and Markku Turunen. How was your day?: a companion ECA. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1-Volume 1. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2010.
  5. Ståhl, Olov and Gambäck, Björn and Hansen, Preben and Turunen, Markku and Hakulinen, Jaakko (2008) A mobile fitness companion.In: The Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, 6-7 October 2008, Bellagio, Italy.
  6. Candace Sidner, Timothy Bickmore, Charles Rich, Barbara Barry, Lazlo Ring, Morteza Behrooz and Mohammad Shayganfar, An Always-On Companion for Isolated Older AdultsInternational Workshop on Techniques Towards Companion Technologies (T2CT 2013)