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Companion Technology

A Paradigm Shift in Human-Technology Interaction

  • Deals with the systematic and interdisciplinary study of cognitive abilities and their implementation in technical systems
  • Focuses on multimodality, individuality, adaptability, availability, cooperativeness, and trustworthiness
  • Suitable for researchers in artificial intelligence

Part of the book series: Cognitive Technologies (COGTECH)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. An Introduction to Companion-Technology

    • Susanne Biundo, Andreas Wendemuth
    Pages 1-15
  3. Multi-level Knowledge Processing in Cognitive Technical Systems

    • Thomas Geier, Susanne Biundo
    Pages 17-36
  4. Model-Based Frameworks for User Adapted Information Exploration: An Overview

    • Michael Kotzyba, Tatiana Gossen, Sebastian Stober, Andreas Nürnberger
    Pages 37-56
  5. Modeling Aspects in Human-Computer Interaction: Adaptivity, User Characteristics and Evaluation

    • Tatiana Gossen, Ingo Siegert, Andreas Nürnberger, Kim Hartmann, Michael Kotzyba, Andreas Wendemuth
    Pages 57-78
  6. User-Centered Planning

    • Pascal Bercher, Daniel Höller, Gregor Behnke, Susanne Biundo
    Pages 79-100
  7. Addressing Uncertainty in Hierarchical User-Centered Planning

    • Felix Richter, Susanne Biundo
    Pages 101-121
  8. To Plan for the User Is to Plan with the User: Integrating User Interaction into the Planning Process

    • Gregor Behnke, Florian Nielsen, Marvin Schiller, Denis Ponomaryov, Pascal Bercher, Birte Glimm et al.
    Pages 123-144
  9. Neurobiological Fundamentals of Strategy Change: A Core Competence of Companion-Systems

    • Andreas L. Schulz, Marie L. Woldeit, Frank W. Ohl
    Pages 145-166
  10. Assistive and Adaptive Dialog Management

    • Florian Nielsen, Wolfgang Minker
    Pages 167-186
  11. Management of Multimodal User Interaction in Companion-Systems

    • Felix Schüssel, Frank Honold, Nikola Bubalo, Michael Weber, Anke Huckauf
    Pages 187-207
  12. Interaction with Adaptive and Ubiquitous User Interfaces

    • Jan Gugenheimer, Christian Winkler, Dennis Wolf, Enrico Rukzio
    Pages 209-229
  13. Interaction History in Adaptive Multimodal Interaction

    • Nikola Bubalo, Felix Schüssel, Frank Honold, Michael Weber, Anke Huckauf
    Pages 231-251
  14. LAST MINUTE: An Empirical Experiment in User-Companion Interaction and Its Evaluation

    • Jörg Frommer, Dietmar Rösner, Rico Andrich, Rafael Friesen, Stephan Günther, Matthias Haase et al.
    Pages 253-275
  15. The LAST MINUTE Corpus as a Research Resource: From Signal Processing to Behavioral Analyses in User-Companion Interactions

    • Dietmar Rösner, Jörg Frommer, Andreas Wendemuth, Thomas Bauer, Stephan Günther, Matthias Haase et al.
    Pages 277-299
  16. Environment Adaption for Companion-Systems

    • Stephan Reuter, Alexander Scheel, Thomas Geier, Klaus Dietmayer
    Pages 301-320
  17. Non-intrusive Gesture Recognition in Real Companion Environments

    • Sebastian Handrich, Omer Rashid, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
    Pages 321-343
  18. Analysis of Articulated Motion for Social Signal Processing

    • Georg Layher, Michael Glodek, Heiko Neumann
    Pages 345-364
  19. Automated Analysis of Head Pose, Facial Expression and Affect

    • Robert Niese, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Heiko Neumann
    Pages 365-386
  20. Multimodal Affect Recognition in the Context of Human-Computer Interaction for Companion-Systems

    • Friedhelm Schwenker, Ronald Böck, Martin Schels, Sascha Meudt, Ingo Siegert, Michael Glodek et al.
    Pages 387-408

About this book

Future technical systems will be companion systems, competent assistants that provide their functionality in a completely individualized way, adapting to a user’s capabilities, preferences, requirements, and current needs, and taking into account both the emotional state and the situation of the individual user.

This book presents the enabling technology for such systems. It introduces a variety of methods and techniques to implement an individualized, adaptive, flexible, and robust behavior for technical systems by means of cognitive processes, including perception, cognition, interaction, planning, and reasoning. The technological developments are complemented by empirical studies from psychological and neurobiological perspectives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Susanne Biundo

  • Cognitive Systems Group, Institute for Information Technology and Communications (IIKT) and Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Andreas Wendemuth

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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