A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Contributors xiii
6. Section I. Setting the scene
7. In good company? 3
8. Introducing artificial Companions 11
9. Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues
10. Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges 23
11. Conditions for Companionhood 29
12. Arius in cyberspace 35
13. Section III. Social and psychological issues
14. Conversationalists and confidants 59
15. Robots should be slaves 63
16. Wanting the impossible 75
17. Falling in love with a Companion 89
18. Identifying your accompanist 95
19. Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion 101
20. New Companions 107
21. On being a Victorian Companion 121
22. Section IV. Design issues
23. The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions 131
24. GRETA 143
25. A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images 157
26. Companionship is an emotional business 169
27. Artificial Companions in society 173
28. Requirements for Artificial Companions 179
29. You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you 201
30. Section V. Special purpose Companions
31. A Companion for learning in everyday life 211
32. The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion 221
33. Living with robots 245
34. Section VI. Afterword
35. Summary and discussion of the issues 259
36. References 287
37. Index 309