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Conversational agent
for reminiscence
Collette Curry, James O’Shea, Keeley Crockett, Laura BrownIntelligent Systems Group
Introducing a conversational agent called
Betty
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The imitation
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Alan Turing
Computing Machinery and Intelligence, "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'"
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1966
ELIZA
Joseph WeizenbaumPeople became very emotionally caught up for several minutes.
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1970’s
PARRY
Kenneth Colby
PARRY and ELIZA (also known as "the Doctor") "met" several times.The most famous of these exchanges occurred at the ICCC 1972, where PARRY and ELIZA were hooked up over ARPANET and "talked" to each other.
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1980’s
RACTER
Bill Chamberlain & Thomas Etter ”BASIC on a Z80 micro with 64K of RAM."
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TALE-SPIN
BRUTUS
MEXICA
Story-themed agents
James Meehan
S Bringsjord
Rafael Pérez & Mike Sharples
MINSTREL S Turner
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2011
Narrator Themed around the Ark Royal ships, from 1588 to 2011.
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InfoChat System
Intelligent Systems Group
Adam – student
debt advisor
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3.3 million people
aged over 85
by 2033 in the UK
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Inter-disciplinaryComputer Science,
Psychology,Literature, History,
Community,Social Science.
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2013
Betty
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Eliza
Racter
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Betty
• Reminiscence interview of users lives incorporated• Keywords extracted from recordings and questionnaires• Subjective well-being is improved• Aging memory loss is improved by continued use
‘Betty the companion’
Reminiscence ontology Eliza layer Learns
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Email: collette.curry@mmu.ac.uk
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