Proactive Digital Companions in Pervasive Hypermedia Environments
Journal
2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC)
Type
book section
Date Issued
2020-12-02
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
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.
Language
English
Keywords
Digital Companion
Pervasive Computing
Web of Things
Hypermedia Agents
Knowledge Graph.
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
None
Publisher
IEEE
Start page
54
End page
59
Pages
6
Event Title
2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC)
Event Location
Atlanta Georgia
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
kimberly.garcia@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
262894
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