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Conversational informatics investigates human behaviour with a viewto designing conversational artifacts capable of interacting withhumans in a conversational fashion. It spans a broad array oftopics including linguistics, psychology and human-computerinteraction. Until recently research in such areas has been carriedout in isolation, with no attempt made to connect the variousdisciplines. Advancements in science and technology have changedthis.
Conversational Informatics provides an interdisciplinaryintroduction to conversational informatics and places emphasis uponthe integration of scientific approaches to achieve engineeringgoals and to advance further understanding of conversation.
It features a collection of surveys structured around fourprominent research areas: conversational artifacts, conversational contents, conversation environment design andconversation measurement, analysis and modelling
* Conversational artifacts shows how synthetic charactersor intelligent robots use eye gaze, gestures and other non-verbalcommunicators to interact.
* Conversational contents looks at developing techniquesfor acquiring, editing, distributing and utilising the contentsthat are produced and consumed in conversation.
* Conversation environment design explains techniques forcreating intelligent virtual environments and for representingindividuals within a virtual environment by monitoring andreproducing their non-verbal conversational behaviour.
* Conversation measurement, analysis and modellingdemonstrate how conversational behaviour can be measured andanalyzed.
Conversational Informatics will be an invaluable resourcefor postgraduate students and researchers in Computer Science andElectrical Engineering as well as engineers and developers workingin the field of automation, robotics and agents technology.
Conversational Informatics provides an interdisciplinaryintroduction to conversational informatics and places emphasis uponthe integration of scientific approaches to achieve engineeringgoals and to advance further understanding of conversation.
It features a collection of surveys structured around fourprominent research areas: conversational artifacts, conversational contents, conversation environment design andconversation measurement, analysis and modelling
* Conversational artifacts shows how synthetic charactersor intelligent robots use eye gaze, gestures and other non-verbalcommunicators to interact.
* Conversational contents looks at developing techniquesfor acquiring, editing, distributing and utilising the contentsthat are produced and consumed in conversation.
* Conversation environment design explains techniques forcreating intelligent virtual environments and for representingindividuals within a virtual environment by monitoring andreproducing their non-verbal conversational behaviour.
* Conversation measurement, analysis and modellingdemonstrate how conversational behaviour can be measured andanalyzed.
Conversational Informatics will be an invaluable resourcefor postgraduate students and researchers in Computer Science andElectrical Engineering as well as engineers and developers workingin the field of automation, robotics and agents technology.
