From Lions to Poodles to Armenian Rabbits: embodied conversational agents in the COMPANIONS project.
Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. (2008)
From Lions to Poodles to Armenian Rabbits: embodied conversational agents in the COMPANIONS project. In Proceedings of The Reign of Catz and Dogz Symposium, CHI 2009, Boston, April 2009
Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent
Journal Article
Smith, C., Crook, N., Dobnik, S., Charlton, D., Boye, J., Pulman, S., …Cavazza, M. (2011)
Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 20, 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1162/PRES_a_00063
The development of embodied conversational agents (ECA) as companions brings several challenges for both affective and conversational dialogue. These include challenges in gen...
Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine: Irreconcilable Opposites or Potential Companions?
Journal Article
El-Alti, L., Sandman, L., & Munthe, C. (2019)
Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine: Irreconcilable Opposites or Potential Companions?. Health Care Analysis, 27(1), 45-59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-017-0347-5
In contrast to standardized guidelines, personalized medicine and person centered care are two notions that have recently developed and are aspiring for more individualized he...
Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet.
Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D. & Mival, O. (2006)
Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet. In Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference HCI 07, 193-194. ISBN 978-1-902505-95-4
The Companions project is a 4 year, EU funded Framework
Programme 6 project involving a consortium of 16 partners
across 8 countries. Its aim is to develop a personalised
conv...
Wizard of Oz Experiments for a companion dialogue system: eliciting companionable conversation.
Conference Proceeding
Webb, N., Benyon, D., Bradley, J., Hansen, P. & Mival, O. (2010)
Wizard of Oz Experiments for a companion dialogue system: eliciting companionable conversation. In Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)ISBN 2-9517408-6-7
Working within the EU funded COMPANIONS program, we report recent work with a Wizard of Oz (WoZ) dialogue collection system.
COMPANION systems require complex models of dialog...
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.
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...
Companions and new forms of interaction design.
Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. & Bradley, J. (2008)
Companions and new forms of interaction design. In Proceedings The European Future Technologies Conference, FET09, Prague, April 2009
Doctor Who: The Elysian Blade
Digital Artefact
Bishop, D. (2019)
Doctor Who: The Elysian Blade. [Digital download / CD]
An original adventure for the Second Doctor and his companions, Jamie and Victoria. Fleeing from the rising tide on a distant planet, the Doctor and his friends meet the survi...
Brief cognitive behavioural therapy for hallucinations: Can it help people who decide not to take antipsychotic medication? A case report
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Morrison, A. P., & Taylor, H. (2012)
Brief cognitive behavioural therapy for hallucinations: Can it help people who decide not to take antipsychotic medication? A case report. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 40(1), 111-116
Background:
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can be helpful for many people who experience psychosis; however most research trials have been conducted with people also taki...