NEWS: Chatbots.org survey on 3000 US and UK consumers shows it is time for chatbot integration in customer service!read more..
Karolina Kuligowska on Jun 1, 2011 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.
Karolina Kuligowska on Jun 6, 2011 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?
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Karolina Kuligowska on Jun 27, 2011 in Agent's Processing, Cognition, Research News | by
Summary: Robot participating in a pool play tournament is nothing strange nowadays. What about conversational agents?
During 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation researchers from Technical University of Munich presented a dual-armed robot capable of playing pool on a normal sized pool table.
Read more about: Need a buddy to play pool? Two-handed robot will do!
Erwin van Lun on Jun 10, 2011 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