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Your Virtual Butler

The Making-of

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Robert Trappl

    1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Austrian Society for Cypernetic Studies (OSGK), Vienna, Austria

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  • Explores the making of your virtual, personalized artificial butler
  • Outlines necessary improvements of the state-of-the-art to develop the virtual butler into a welcome aid to a human being
  • Takes into account psychological and social considerations, experiences with/prerequisites for virtual or robotic companions, and further developments

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7407)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction: From Jeeves to Jeannie to Siri, and Then?

    1. Introduction: From Jeeves to Jeannie to Siri, and Then?

      • Robert Trappl
      Pages 1-8

  3. Part I:Psychological and Social Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Would a Virtual Butler Do a Good Job for Old People? Psychological Considerations about Benefits and Risks of Technological Assistance

      • Claudia Oppenauer-Meerskraut
      Pages 11-15

    3. Framing the Invisible – The Social Background of Trust

      • Kerstin Heuwinkel
      Pages 16-26

  4. Part II:Experiences with/Prerequisites for Virtual or Robotic Companions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Virtual Butler: What Can We Learn from Adaptive User Interfaces?

      • Cristina Conati
      Pages 29-41

    3. Towards Affect Sensitive and Socially Perceptive Companions

      • Ginevra Castellano, Peter W. McOwan
      Pages 42-53

    4. Before We Get There, Where Are We Going?

      • Wayne Iba
      Pages 54-69

    5. Virtual Helper or Virtual Card Player? Contrasting Responses of Older Users

      • Massimo Zancanaro, Silvia Gabrielli, Anthony Jameson, Chiara Leonardi, Elena Not, Fabio Pianesi
      Pages 70-78

    6. Scenarios for Companions

      • David Benyon, Oli Mival
      Pages 79-96

    7. Care-O-bot® 3 – Vision of a Robot Butler

      • Ulrich Reiser, Theo Jacobs, Georg Arbeiter, Christopher Parlitz, Kerstin Dautenhahn
      Pages 97-116

  5. Part III:Further Developments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Spoken Language Processing: Where Do We Go from Here?

      • Roger K. Moore
      Pages 119-133

    3. Virtual Butlers and Real People: Styles and Practices in Long-Term Use of a Companion

      • Sabine Payr
      Pages 134-178

    4. What Issue Should Your Virtual Butler Solve Next?

      • Stefan Rank
      Pages 179-186

  6. Back Matter

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About this book

In most scenarios of the future a personalized virtual butler appears. This butler not only performs communication and coordination tasks but also gives recommendations on how to handle everyday problems. The aim of this book is to explore the prerequisites of such a personalized virtual butler by asking: what is known about the capacities and the needs of aging people; which information and communication technologies have been used in assisting/conversing with persons, especially older ones, and what were the results; what are the advantages/disadvantages of virtual butlers as mainly software programs compared robots as butlers; and which methods, especially in artificial intelligence, have to be developed further and in which direction in order to create a virtual butler in the foreseeable future?

Editors and Affiliations

  • Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Austrian Society for Cypernetic Studies (OSGK), Vienna, Austria

    Robert Trappl

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