Companion Technology

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

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Multilevel Knowledge Processing in Companion Systems.- Extending the Knowledge Base: Dynamic Query Planning for Querying Ontologies.- User-Centered Planning.- Explaining System-Generated Plans to Human Users.- Neurobiological Foundations of Strategy Change.- Assistive and Adaptive Dialogue Management.- The 'How' of Companion F eedback: Insights from Functional Imaging and Psychophysiology.- Management of Multimodal User Interaction in Companion Systems.- User-Adapted Guided Information Exploration.- Last Minute: An Empirical Experiment in User Companion Interaction.- Semantic and Nonlinguistic Data Representing Emotional States.- Environment Adaption for Companion Systems.- Emotion Recognition from Speech.- Automated Analysis of Human Facial Expression and Affect.- Social Signal Processing and Analysis in Companion Systems.- Nonintrusive Gesture Recognition in Real Companion Environments.- Companions Personalized Emotion Experience Model (COMPLEX).- Information Fusion.- NeuralMechanisms and Methods for Emotion Recognition.- Mobile Worker Assistance System and Interaction Methods for Automotive Application Scenarios.