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Saturday, July 16, 2005
Squirrel with license to screen phone calls
Being an Autonomous Interactive Intermediary (AII; probably a term we will hear more from this point on), this squirrel-like device reacts on the phone calls via Bluetooth and speech recognition. It then behaves and speaks in reaction to what's being said. Kind of "fuzzy" what the purpose is, but I guess I'll have to read the article a few more times. The speech recognition/synthesis etc is done on a PC, so the squirrel itself is primarily a robot controlled from the PC via Bluetooth. Note the tiny servos (same as used in model air planes etc).
The Intermediary is a conversational as well as robotic agent.
The conversational agent is able to converse with caller and callee—at the same time, mediating between them, and possibly suggesting modality crossovers. It deals with incoming communication attempts when the user cannot or does not want to. It's a dual conversational agent since it can converse with both user and caller simultaneously, mediating between them.
All clear now, or maybe not.
The Cellular Squirrel - Stefan Marti
The Intermediary is a conversational as well as robotic agent.
The conversational agent is able to converse with caller and callee—at the same time, mediating between them, and possibly suggesting modality crossovers. It deals with incoming communication attempts when the user cannot or does not want to. It's a dual conversational agent since it can converse with both user and caller simultaneously, mediating between them.
All clear now, or maybe not.
The Cellular Squirrel - Stefan Marti
