This project developed a virtual conversational ‘Companion’: an agent that stays with the user for long periods of time, develops a relationship and ‘knows’ its owner’s preferences and wishes, communicating primarily by using and understanding speech.
With Professor Yorick Wilks, and Dr Marc Cavazza
The Companion is a persistent conversational agent that appears to learn a person's tastes and habits, and carries out activities within their digital space on the Internet, such as organising image and text records as a coherent life narrative.
