MMU 6th PGConference 2013

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Conversational agent

for reminiscence

Collette Curry, James O’Shea, Keeley Crockett, Laura BrownIntelligent Systems Group

Introducing a conversational agent called

Betty

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The imitation

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Alan Turing

Computing Machinery and Intelligence, "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'"

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1966

ELIZA

Joseph WeizenbaumPeople became very emotionally caught up for several minutes.

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1970’s

PARRY

Kenneth Colby

PARRY and ELIZA (also known as "the Doctor") "met" several times.The most famous of these exchanges occurred at the ICCC 1972, where PARRY and ELIZA were hooked up over ARPANET and "talked" to each other.

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1980’s

RACTER

Bill Chamberlain & Thomas Etter ”BASIC on a Z80 micro with 64K of RAM."

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TALE-SPIN

BRUTUS

MEXICA

Story-themed agents

James Meehan

S Bringsjord

Rafael Pérez & Mike Sharples

MINSTREL S Turner

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2011

Narrator Themed around the Ark Royal ships, from 1588 to 2011.

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InfoChat System

Intelligent Systems Group

Adam – student

debt advisor

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3.3 million people

aged over 85

by 2033 in the UK

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Inter-disciplinaryComputer Science,

Psychology,Literature, History,

Community,Social Science.

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2013

Betty

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Eliza

Racter

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Betty

• Reminiscence interview of users lives incorporated• Keywords extracted from recordings and questionnaires• Subjective well-being is improved• Aging memory loss is improved by continued use

‘Betty the companion’

Reminiscence ontology Eliza layer Learns

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Email: collette.curry@mmu.ac.uk

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