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Desiderata for the Design of Companion Systems

Insights from a Large Scale Wizard of Oz Experiment

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We report about evaluations of the LAST MINUTE corpus which comprises multimodal recordings (audio, video, biopsychological data, verbatim transcripts, psychological questionnaires, in-depth user interviews) of Wizard of Oz simulated naturalistic human companion interactions in German. Based on the results of these analyses we discuss consequences for the design of future companion systems.

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  1. Subject contributions marked with ‘P’, those of the wizard with ‘W’. English glosses added for convenience.

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Acknowledgments

The presented study is performed in the framework of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 62 “A Companion-Technology for Cognitive Technical Systems” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable constructive feedback. The responsibility for the content of this paper remains with the authors.

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  1. Institut für Wissens- und Sprachverarbeitung (IWS), Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany

    Dietmar Rösner, Thomas Bauer & Stephan Günther

  2. Universitätsklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany

    Matthias Haase, Julia Krüger & Jörg Frommer

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Rösner, D., Haase, M., Bauer, T. et al. Desiderata for the Design of Companion Systems. Künstl Intell 30, 53–61 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0410-z

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