A review of Virtual Assistants' characteristics: recommendations for designing an optimal human-machine cooperation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-48
Author(s):  
Marlène E. C. Gilles ◽  
Elisabetta Bevacqua
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Virtual Assistance

Abstract Designed to improve human-machine interactions, virtual agents, and particularly virtual assistants (VAs), are spreading in our daily lives. Presenting a very wide variety of characteristics, studies generally report their own agent with its own characteristics and objective. So we can wonder if some of these characteristics are a consensus for VAs in general. Within this work, we aim to identify the agents' characteristics that should be considered when designing a virtual assistant promoting the best communication and cooperation between man and machine. We review the aspects of representation of the agent (embodied or not) and its ability to interact with the human being whether by speech or gestures, but also by displaying personality traits. This overview makes some focuses on virtual assistance of any kind embarked on vehicles.

Computer Agent Technologies in Collaborative Assessments

2016 ◽  
pp. 319-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yigal Rosen ◽  
Maryam Mosharraf
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Large Scale Assessment ◽  
Collaborative Problem ◽  
Scalable Learning

Often in our daily lives we learn and work in groups. In recognition of the importance of collaborative and problem solving skills, educators are realizing the need for effective and scalable learning and assessment solutions to promote the skillset in educational systems. In the settings of a comprehensive collaborative problem solving assessment, each student should be matched with various types of group members and must apply the skills in varied contexts and tasks. One solution to these assessment demands is to use computer-based (virtual) agents to serve as the collaborators in the interactions with students. The chapter presents the premises and challenges in the use of computer agents in the assessment of collaborative problem solving. Directions for future research are discussed in terms of their implications to large-scale assessment programs.

Mary in Contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Devotion

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 368-376
Author(s):  
Marta Camilla Wright
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Ethiopian Orthodox ◽  
Body And Soul

IN a double monastery located near the important pilgrimage place of Lalibela, two nuns I had been interviewing suddenly asked me, ‘Why don’t you ask us about Mary?’ They wanted to tell me about how she cared for them, loved them, and answered their prayers. ‘Whatever we ask her she will give us’, they stated. Mary was important for the Ethiopian Orthodox believers I worked with; it became obvious that Mary has an exclusive place in Ethiopian devotion in general. Most of the time, Ethiopian Christians relate to Christ as a distant saviour and turn to Mary in dealing with their daily lives. Mary is pure in both body and soul, a human being without sin, so that Christ becomes the union of divinity and humanity.

scholarly journals APRENDER A APRENDER… (LEARN TO LEARN)

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Flor Abarca-Alpízar
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Great Responsibility ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Good Living ◽  
The University

En nuestras búsquedas para la promoción de los aprendizajes universitarios con sentido y significado para las y los estudiantes universitario, tenemos la inmensa responsabilidad de conservar aquello que nos humaniza, siendo flexibles ante nuestras dependencias, obediencias, desconfianzas e inseguridades por lo nuevo; sintiéndonos parte de lo observado, asumiendo con amor y gozo nuestras responsabilidades: los interaprendizajes entre seres humanos.Los aprendizajes con sentido son parte de la integralidad de la vida, de nuestro autoconocimiento e inteligencia espiritual, necesitamos reconocerlos como parte del  flujo universal de la vida y aplicarlos en nuestro quehacer cotidiano como académicos y académicas universitarios.  Los aprendizajes y la vida son la misma cosa, porque necesitamos de los aprendizajes para vivir, para cuidarnos como seres vivos en conexión con Gaia, nuestra Madre Tierra.Palabras clave: Aprendizajes con sentido, Mediación Pedagógica, Integralidad, Buen vivir, Transdisciplinariedad.Abstract In our search for the promotion of the university learning with meaning and significance to the university and students, have the great responsibility to preserve what makes us human, being flexible about our facilities, obedience, mistrust and insecurity for the new, feeling part of noted, with love and joy assuming our responsibilities: the shared learning among humans. Meaningful learning are part of the wholeness of life, our self-knowledge and spiritual understanding, we need to recognize them as part of the universal flow of life and apply them in our daily lives as scholars and university academics. Learning and life are the same thing, because we need to live learning to take care of as living in connection with Gaia, our Mother Earth.Keywords: Learning with respect Pedagogical Mediation, Integrity Good living, Transdisciplinariedad

scholarly journals Intelligent motivation framework based on Q-network for multiple agents in Internet of Things simulations

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 155014771986638
Author(s):  
Hieu Trong Nguyen ◽  
Phuong Minh Chu ◽  
Jisun Park ◽  
Yunsick Sung ◽  
Kyungeun Cho
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Q Learning ◽  
Hierarchical Task Network ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Motivation Model

Internet of Things simulations play significant roles in the diverse kinds of activities in our daily lives and have been extensively researched. Creating and controlling virtual agents in three-dimensional Internet of Things simulations is a key technology for achieving realism in three-dimensional simulations. Given that traditional virtual agent-based approaches have limitations for realism, it is necessary to improve the realism of three-dimensional Internet of Things simulations. This article proposes a Q-Network-based motivation framework that applies a Q-Network to select motivations from desires and hierarchical task network planning to execute actions based on goals of the selected motivations. The desires are to be identified and calculated based on states. Selected motivations will be chosen to determine the goals that agents must achieve. In the experiments, the proposed framework achieved an average accuracy of up to 85.5% when the Q-Network-based motivation model was trained. To verify the Q-Network-based motivation framework, a traditional Q-learning is also applied in the three-dimensional virtual environment. Comparing the results of the two frameworks, the Q-Network-based motivation framework shows better results than those of traditional Q-learning, as the accuracy of the Q-Network-based motivation is higher by 15.58%. The proposed framework can be applied to the diverse kinds of Internet of Things systems such as a training autonomous vehicle. Moreover, the proposed framework can generate big data on animal behaviors for other training systems.

Linking personality states, current social roles and major life goals

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiebke Bleidorn
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Sampling Design ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Life Goals ◽  
Multilevel Analyses ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
People’S Daily

Employing an experience‐sampling design, the interplay between personality states, social roles and major life goals was examined as it unfolds in the stream of people's daily lives. Multilevel analyses revealed a considerable amount of both within‐ and between‐person variability in state expressions of personality traits justifying further examination of predictors at both levels of analyses. Roles proved as predictors of current personality states albeit effects differed significantly between individuals. Life goals accounted for between‐person differences in average personality states but were not effective in predicting differences in relations between personality states and roles. Altogether, findings testify to the viability of the employed research strategy to analyse the interplay between both dispositional and fluctuating influences on individuals' trait expressions in behaviour. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals You are what you post in “circle of friends” of WeChat: Self-presentation and identity production from a personality perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenglong Lin ◽  
Wei Fang ◽  
Jianbin Jin
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Semantic Cues ◽  
Media Services ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Circle Of Friends ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Identity Production

Social media services have become increasingly important in Chinese people’s daily lives, and among them, WeChat is one of the most popular applications. There have been studies examining individuals’ practices of self-presentation and identity production in various online platforms, and they have found the impact of anonymity on users’ presentation and construction of self. However, little is known about whether users present their actual self or construct new identities different from those in their offline life. To fill this gap, this study explores the association between expression of personality traits on circle of friends and their actual personality traits in offline life. Participants were 93 college students from China. Their personality traits were measured through Neuroticism Extraversion Openness Five-Factor Inventory, and their posts on circle of friends platform were extracted and split into words by Chinese Lexical Analysis System. The results showed consistency in the dimension of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness, except for neuroticism, suggesting that the contents posted on circle of friends platform can reflect the user’s real personality traits. As an instrumental tool developed in this study, the semantic cues were further discussed regarding its usefulness in evaluating subjects’ personality traits.

scholarly journals SINESTESIA, ARTE, CULTURA E TECNOLOGIA: IMPACTOS NA SOCIEDADE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Sheila Regiane Franceschini
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
The Subject ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Creative Capacity

The present work seeks to demonstrate that the phenomenon "synesthesia", as a multisensory phenomenon, with a wide variety of occurrences, is present in people's daily lives and is increasingly related to our way of living, enjoying goods and services, producing, creating, with support in supporting technological innovations o four time. These findings help us to conceive synesthesia as a phenomenon that affects society because it is inherent to human life, due to the creative capacity to solve elementary issues. The work is also a bibliographic survey that also seeks to understand how this phenomenon is related to culture, a dynamic concept that places the human being as an agent that transforms reality, among other aspects. To this end, we use the ideas ofsome important researchers on the subject as theoretical support to, by establishing reflections on them, to favor the understanding of the hybrid society in which we live, valuing Art as anessential activity.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN ANAK DALAM TRILOGI KEILMUAN PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nur Asmawi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
Islamic Civilization

Religion (Islam) and education are two things which are interrelated. Through religion, humans are formed into whole people in accordance with the values of Islamic teachings. The development process is through education because through education, children will become more mature and more capable both in terms of intelligence and mental attitude. Religion is intended to form a complete human being by directing children to become people of faith and piety. The implementation of scientific trilogy of Islamic Religious Education is described in five aspects of Islamic Religious education, namely: aspects of the Koran-Hadith, aspects of aqidah/faith, aspects of morals, aspects of fiqhi/worship, and aspects of history/history of Islamic civilization. Aqeedah material emphasizes the formation of the belief that God is the origin and purpose of human life. Moral material is directed to prepare students to have Islamic morals and ethics as a whole person of Muslims and put into practice in their daily lives.

Computer Agent Technologies in Collaborative Assessments

2019 ◽  
pp. 755-780
Author(s):  
Yigal Rosen ◽  
Maryam Mosharraf
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Large Scale Assessment ◽  
Collaborative Problem ◽  
Scalable Learning

Often in our daily lives we learn and work in groups. In recognition of the importance of collaborative and problem solving skills, educators are realizing the need for effective and scalable learning and assessment solutions to promote the skillset in educational systems. In the settings of a comprehensive collaborative problem solving assessment, each student should be matched with various types of group members and must apply the skills in varied contexts and tasks. One solution to these assessment demands is to use computer-based (virtual) agents to serve as the collaborators in the interactions with students. The chapter presents the premises and challenges in the use of computer agents in the assessment of collaborative problem solving. Directions for future research are discussed in terms of their implications to large-scale assessment programs.

scholarly journals PERSONALITY TRAITS OF BABY IN BABY DRIVER MOVIE

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Prasetyo Prasetyo ◽  
Meisuri Meisuri ◽  
Juli Rachmadani Hasibuan
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Movie Script ◽  
Perlocutionary Act ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study aimed at analyzing the kind of traits which represented by Baby in Baby Driver movie by Edgar Wright. The study of Characterization has been thrived in recent centuries. Personality Traits study in a movie is an interesting way to develop and identify some character in movies. The study used descriptive qualitative method. The data of this study were dialogues and statements from Baby which related to the Personality Traits theory in the movie script. The source of the data was Baby Driver movie. The findings of the Big Five theory analyzed by described the utterances and statements from Perlocutionary Act findings. It was found that there were five traits represented by Baby along the movie. They were (1) Introvert/Extrovert, (2) Neuroticism, (3) Conscientiousness, (4) Openness to Experience, and (5) Agreeableness. This study also proved that conflicts always happened in human being, especially teenager. At one time, a person chose to be introvert and in the next day he or she chose to be extrovert. Characterization learning was believed as a tool to differ one character of a movie or real-life individual from another.Keywords: Personality Traits, Speech Act, Perlocutionary Act.

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