| Item Type |
Book Section
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| Abstract |
Artificial companions and digital assistants have been investigated for several decades, from research in the autonomous agents and social robots areas to the highly popular voice-enabled digital assistants that are already in widespread use (e.g., Siri and Alexa). Although these companions provide valuable information and services to people, they remain re- active entities that operate in isolated environments waiting to be asked for help. The Web is now emerging as a uniform hypermedia fabric that interconnects everything (e.g., devices, physical objects, abstract concepts, digital services), thereby enabling unprecedented levels of automation and comfort in our professional and private lives. However, this also results in increasingly complex environments that are becoming un- intelligible to everyday users. To ameliorate this situation, we envision proactive Digital Companions that take advantage of this new generation of pervasive hypermedia environments to provide assistance and protection to people. In addition to Digital Companions perceiving a person’s environment through vision and sound, pervasive hypermedia environments provide them with means to further contextualize the situation by exploiting information from available connected devices, and give them access to rich knowledge bases that allow to derive relevant actions and recommendations. |
| Authors |
Garcia, Kimberly; Mayer, Simon; Ricci, Alessandro & Ciortea, Andrei |
| Journal or Publication Title |
2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC) |
| Language |
English |
| Keywords |
Digital Companion, Pervasive Computing, Web of Things, Hypermedia Agents, Knowledge Graph. |
| Subjects |
computer science |
| HSG Classification |
contribution to scientific community |
| HSG Profile Area |
None |
| Date |
2 December 2020 |
| Publisher |
IEEE |
| Page Range |
54-59 |
| Number of Pages |
6 |
| Event Title |
2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC) |
| Event Location |
Atlanta Georgia |
| Official URL |
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9319... |
| Contact Email Address |
kimberly.garcia@unisg.ch |
| Depositing User |
Dr. Kimberly Garcia
|
| Date Deposited |
29 Mar 2021 23:18 |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2022 13:44 |
| URI: |
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/262894 |
Proactive Digital Companions in Pervasive Hypermedia Environments
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