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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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The President and Fellows of Harvard College

Yorick Wilks on Internet Companions: technical and social issues.

Yorick Wilks of the Oxford Internet Institute presents COMPANIONS, an EU project that aims to change the way we think about the relationships of people to computers and the Internet by developing a virtual 'Companion'. This talk describes the functionality of a Senior Companion (SC), a program that elicits the life memories of the elderly, often prompted by discussion of their photographs. The aim being that the Companion should come to know a great deal about its user, their tastes, likes, dislikes, emotional reactions etc, through long periods of conversation.

Produced 9 Nov 2009

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Last updated December 01, 2009

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