![]() | by Karolina Kuligowska on 3 months, 4 weeks ago in Agent's Appearance, Screens, Research News |
Summary: Interaction between Human and Chatbot through tactile touch screens
Researchers from Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University have been investigating haptic interfaces that allow users to feel virtual elements through touch. Such tactile touch screens provide users with a wide variety of tactile sensations such as textures, friction and vibration.
![]() | by Dirk Jan Dokman on 2 years, 9 months ago in Agent's Appearance, Screens, Business News |
Summary: Dutch City of Almere offers conversational agent Ally via its homepage
Almere is the first Dutch city to have a virtual agent installed on its homepage. Her name is Ally and she will answer any question asked on Almere.nl, giving the site a truly personal touch. The launch of Ally is a result of a successful experiment with the Almere Hyves page (alike to Facebook) and has been officially live on Almere.nl since March.
![]() | by Erwin Van Lun on 2 years, 11 months ago in Agent's Appearance, Screens, Business News |
Summary: Eliza, the first chatterbot ever, is now available on the iPhone.
French software company Visuamobile has come out with a new application Eliza AI, a chatterbot for your iPhone using artificial intelligence software developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in 1966. It was amongst the first AI programs’ and now used as a basis by most computer generated speech programs. You can converse with her on your iPhone as if she was your therapist and like all good therapists, she will answer most questions with another question.