Related Projects
Personality Style Checker
Personality Style Checker (PSC) is a patent-pending software prototype that combines psychology with natural language technology to analyse text for personality traits. The system has received considerable media coverage for its ability to improve the way written communications come across to colleagues and clients.
The BEETLE (Basic Electricity and Electronics Tutorial Learning Environment) project is an effort to create a computer-based tutor to teach basic electricity and electronics. This is a huge challenge because it requires us to build a system that can, among other things, encourage students to recognize and correct their own errors.
StoryStation is an educational computer programme that helps children write stories. It uses techniques from artificial intelligence and natural language processing to tailor the feedback to an individual user's ability and progress. The software was developed in conjunction with children and trials will begin in Scottish schools in early 2004.
The Automated House demonstration is based on a European consortium project called D'Homme, which aimed to demonstrate how dialogue management and natural language understanding can be used to tackle a number of problems with automated control.
Personalised Electronic Museum Curator
The M-PIRO (Multilingual Personalised Information Objects) project built a museum information system in three languages (English, Greek and Italian) that tailors exhibit descriptions according to three levels. It provides novices with the fundamentals, while at the same time offering the expert a more complex explanation of each piece. Furthermore, it remembers not to explain things twice.
This EU project aims to make avatars, sometimes called virtual characters, act in a more realistic and human way. For development purposes the researchers have created an Avatar called Greta in order to test their theories about how to inject personality. A successful implementation of a believable animated character could lead to several applications, such a virtual receptionist.
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