Evaluating human-machine conversation for appropriateness.
Conference Proceeding
Webb, N., Benyon, D., Hansen, P., & Mival, O. (2010)
Evaluating human-machine conversation for appropriateness. In Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), 84-91
Evaluation of complex, collaborative dialogue systems is a difficult task.Traditionally, developers have relied upon subjective feedback from the user,and parametrisation over...
Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions.
Conference Proceeding
Bradley, J., Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2009)
Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions. In Proceedings British HCI 2009, (313-317
Wizard of Oz experiments allow designers and developers to
see the reactions of people as they interact with to-bedeveloped
technologies. At the Centre for Interaction Design ...
PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo.
Conference Proceeding
Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., Bradley, J., Roa-Seiler, N., & Benyon, D. (2008)
PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. In Proceedings of CHI Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos Workshop
This short paper introduces the research of the 14 partner,
EU Framework 6 project, COMPANIONS. It focuses on
the development of PhotoPal, a multimodal system
harnessing the c...
A novel architecture for designing by Wizard of Oz
Conference Proceeding
Bradley, J., Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2008)
A novel architecture for designing by Wizard of Oz. In Proceedings CREATE08, London, June 2008
Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships
Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008)
Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, presented at CHI 2008, Florence, April 2008 (3657-3662). https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358908
Personification technologies are technologies that encourage people to anthropomorphize. These technologies try to get people to form relationships with them rather than simpl...
The Companions paradigm as a method of eliciting and organising life data.
Presentation / Conference
Wilks, Y., Catizone, R., & Mival, O. (2008, January)
The Companions paradigm as a method of eliciting and organising life data. Presented at Workshop on Memories for Life, British Computer Society, London, UK
No abstract available.
Exploring Companion technologies.
Conference Proceeding
Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2007)
Exploring Companion technologies. In Proceedings of AISB2008
The COMPANIONS project, novel interactions and experiences.
Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. (2006)
The COMPANIONS project, novel interactions and experiences. In Proceedings of AISB2007
Personification technologies: developing artificial companions for older people.
Conference Proceeding
Mival, O., Cringean, S., & Benyon, D. (2004)
Personification technologies: developing artificial companions for older people. In CHI 2004 conference proceedings : Connect
This paper reports on the work of the UTOPIA project, a consortium of four Scottish universities concerned with technology issues for older people, focusing specifically on ar...
Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people.
Conference Proceeding
Eisma, R., Dickinson, A., Goodman, J., Mival, O., Syme, A., & Tiwari, L. (2003)
Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people. In Proceedings-Include 2003. , (7:252-7:259
There are few guidelines on how to involve older people in the design process of new IT related products. In this paper we describe some of the difficulties encountered when w...