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Erwin van Lun on 13 years, 5 months ago in Agent's Appearance, Augmented Reality, Research News | by
Summary: HIT Lab NZ brings Greta, a humanlike conversational agent, with Augmented Relatity alive. That's cool!
The Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) is developing and commercializing technology that improves human computer interaction and by doing so unlocks the power of human intelligence.
Now, they have been able to add virtual agent Greta, an agent specifically designed for research, to reality. Check it out, this is really cool of how the future will look like!
Read more about: Augmented Reality reveals Embodied Conversational Agent
Soulla Stylianou on 13 years, 5 months ago in Business News | by
Summary: #chatbots #daden How many times has your website been thanked?
Blog Post recalling a conversation that Daden’s own chatbot Abi had.
Read more about: How many times has your chatbot been thanked?
Aimee Quemuel on 13 years, 5 months ago in Investments, Business News | by
Summary: Virtuoz Strengthens its Position in Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) by $7 million fund raising
VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online customer service, today announced that it has raised $7 million in additional funding from existing investors Mohr Davidow, Inventures Group and Galileo Partners to finance growth in the U.S. and E.U.
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 5 months ago in Agent's perception of humans, Neuroscience, Research News | by
Summary: Neuro Breakthroughs: computers detect human thoughts
Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have recently demonstrated that a computer can decode brain signals to infer the intentions of a human thoughts. From now on, people can “talk within their minds” to a computer in order to control it. How the act of human mind reading, usually associated with science-fiction literature, is actually possible?
Read more about: Can artificial limbs be controlled by mind-reading computers?
Jetty van Kooij on 13 years, 5 months ago in Agent identity, Personality, Applications, User Client Technology, Business News | by
Summary: Google Labs has initiated a new project called Google Talk Guru, a so-called search engine chatbot.
Google Labs has initiated a new project called Google Talk Guru, a so-called search engine chatbot. It sounds promising; however at this stage you can only enquire about 7 topics:
Read more about: Google Talk Guru: Search embedded in IM chatbot
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 5 months ago in Agent's perception of humans, Facial coding, Physiognomics, Research News | by
Summary: Scientists on the trail of automatic human emotion recognition
According to scientists, it is possible that computers understand human emotional state. The algorithm allowing computers to recognize real person’s emotions and feelings will be used in fields such as biomedicine, law enforcement and computer science.
Aimee Quemuel on 13 years, 6 months ago in Agent identity, Personality, Business, Business contests & awards, Business News | by
Summary: VirtuOz Nominated for People’s Choice Stevie Awards: Cast your Vote Today
Evidence continues to mount that supports Gartner’s prediction that intelligent virtual agents will be a new standard for customer interaction in the next 2-4 years.
Read more about: Intelligent Virtual Agents Gain Widespread Market Adoption
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 6 months ago in Agent's Processing, Relations, Research News | by
Summary: Animated virtual human whose understanding of relationships adapts over time. Touch animated conversational agent
Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Relational Agents Group at Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science aim to develop a technology that can address the needs of isolated older adults.
Read more about: Animated Conversational Agent for long-term relationships
Aimee Quemuel on 13 years, 6 months ago in Business, Business contests & awards, Business News | by
Summary: Recognition reinforces prediction IVAs will be the new standard for customer interactions in the next few years
VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online customer service, today announced it was named a finalist in the Best New Software as a Service of the Year category in The 2011 American Business Awards. The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. More than 2,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration across 40 categories.
Virtual agents are an innovative response to growing consumer demand for personalized self-service options accessible via today’s preferred online channels – the web, mobile devices and Facebook. VirtuOz intelligent virtual agent solutions use patented natural language processing and predictive intent analysis to realistically emulate a conversation with a human being online and provide timely and effective resolution to consumer issues. Gartner research predicts that intelligent virtual agents will be a new standard for customer interaction in the next 2-4 years.
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 6 months ago in Business, Events, Business News | by
Summary: What happens if virtual world becomes your first life?
Beginning from Friday, 6th May 2011, Warsaw hosts eight edition of a documentary film festival named Planete Doc Film Festival. I participate in it intensively - I bought tickets for 10 movies! On Saturday I have seen the movie: Life 2.0., and I am very impressed by this film and its story. It is about people that live their everyday life into a virtual online world Second Life.
Read more about: Life 2.0, Work 2.0, Death 2.0 - when virtual world becomes your first life