Recent years have seen a surge in consumer usage of spoken dialog systems, due to the
popularity of voice assistants. While these systems are capable of answering factual …

New developments in healthcare require an increased disease self-management of
patients. Intelligent digital assistants equipped with a conversational user interface are …

Abstract Background Conversational agents (CAs) offer a sustainable approach to deliver
personalized interventions and improve health outcomes. Objectives To review how human …

We will demonstrate a deployed conversational AI system that acts as a host of a smart-
building on a university campus. The system combines open-domain social conversation …

Abstract Artificial Social Companions are a promising solution for the increasing challenges
in elderly care. This chapter describes the CaMeLi autonomous conversational agent …

Conversational agents provide new modalities to access and interact with services and
applications. Recently, they saw a backfire in their popularity, due to the recent …

The development of applications with intelligent virtual agents (IVA) often comes with
integration of multiple complex components. In this article we present the Agents United …

Current research on building intelligent agents for aiding with productivity and focus in the
workplace is quite limited, despite the ubiquity of information workers across the globe. In …

The field of Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) has made significant strides in recent years, yet
the gap between the envisioned capabilities of conversational agents and their current state …

We present and evaluate a deployed conversational AI system that acts as a host of a
working public building on a university campus. The system combines open-domain social …