I feel you: Towards affect-sensitive domotic Spoken Conversational Agents

We describe the work on infusion of emotion into limitedtask autonomous spoken conversational agents (SCAs) situated in the domestic environment, using a Need-inspired task-independentEmotion model (NEMO). In order to demonstrate the generation of a?ect through the use of the model, we describe the work of integrating it with a naturallanguage mixed-initiative HiFi-control SCA. NEMO and the host system communicates externally, removing the need for the Dialog Manager to be modi?ed as done in most existing dialog systems, in order to be adaptive. We also summarize the work on automatic a?ect prediction, namely frustration and contentment from dialog features, a non-conventional source, in the attempt of moving towards a more user-centric approach.

I feel you: the design and evaluation of a domotic affect-sensitive spoken conversational agent

We describe the work on infusion of emotion into a limited-task autonomous spoken conversational agent situated in the domestic environment, using a need-inspired task-independent emotion model (NEMO). In order to demonstrate the generation of affect through the use of the model, we describe the work of integrating it with a natural-language mixed-initiative HiFi-control spoken conversational agent (SCA). NEMO and the host system communicate externally, removing the need for the Dialog Manager to be modified, as is done in most existing dialog systems, in order to be adaptive. The first part of the paper concerns the integration between NEMO and the host agent. The second part summarizes the work on automatic affect prediction, namely, frustration and contentment, from dialog features, a non-conventional source, in the attempt of moving towards a more user-centric approach. The final part reports the evaluation results obtained from a user study, in which both versions of the agent (non-adaptive and emotionally-adaptive) were compared. The results provide substantial evidences with respect to the benefits of adding emotion in a spoken conversational agent, especially in mitigating users' frustrations and, ultimately, improving their satisfaction.

Sobre las casas Kaufmann:dos dibujos y una fotografía

This article explores the Kaufmann family houses, their architects and the american world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . The first, designed by Benno Janssen, is not widely known but it is fantastic because it is capable of creating a landscape where it does not exist. I love it. There, in its living room, is where Wright received the commission to build Fallingwater house. And finally, I would like to dedicate a few comments to the house built by Neutra, in order to balance the article. Wright could be the guiding thread. I have always thought that Fallingwater house has some aspects that are a bit forced and therefore, paradoxically, unnatural. I also believe that with this building Wright distances himself from the interests of european architecture, and is focused on more realistic problems, such as those of collective housing

Aplicación móvil de localización de ocio para Android

¿No sabes dónde comer un plato típico cuando estás de vacaciones? ¿Quieres ir con amigos a comer a un sitio distinto? ¿Quieres disfrutar de esa comida que tanto te gusta y no sabes dónde hacerlo? Con afán de responder a estas preguntas y gracias a las capacidades que nos brindan las nuevas tecnologías de dispositivos móviles, surge la aplicación que se presenta en este proyecto fin de carrera. Se trata de una aplicación para dispositivos móviles con sistema operativo Android que nos brindará la opción de encontrar restaurantes en nuestro entorno que nos ofrezcan esa comida que queremos. Además, a modo de red social, incluye la opción de poder puntuar los platos degustados en los restaurantes e insertar restaurantes nuevos, lo que hace que la aplicación tenga una mayor versatilidad. En este documento se podrán encontrar los diagramas UML que modelan el proyecto, tanto la parte de la aplicación como la parte del servidor. En él también podremos encontrar otra documentación como: un manual de usuario de la aplicación, el código fuente de la misma y proposiciones de futuras versiones y mejoras de la aplicación actual. ABSTRACT. Don’t you know where you can eat a typical dish when you are on holidays? Do you want to go to eat to a different place? Do you want to enjoy that meal you love and you don’t know where you can do it? To answer those questions and thanks to the possibilities of modern smartphones’ technology, we present this application in my degree’s final project. This application, which runs with an Android operative system, gives us the option to find restaurants in our environment that offer the meal we really want. In addition, as a social network, it includes the option to rate the tasted dishes or to add new restaurants, giving the application versatility. Nowadays our society is used to the use of smartphones and their possibilities. That is why we must to explore its potential to obtain better amenities. In the last few years the amount of available applications for these devices has increased too much, offering a huge variety of them. If we realize a research about their functionalities and uses we will discover that most of them are oriented to leisure. That is why we are going to start the inquiry of a software engineering project developing a restaurant localization restaurant for Android smartphones, In this document you can find the UMI diagrams which model the project, both the application part and the server part. Besides, you can find other documents as: an application user manual, the source and proposals for future versions and improvements.