Human-Robot Interactions

From Grauniad of the UK

"The level of interaction we seek is not when I fall in love with the humanoid robot, but when the humanoid robot falls in love with me," explained Prof. Adolf Frankenstein of the University of Linz, in Austria.

BM

PS If you haven't seen it, Ex Machina is a gripping film showing us what is in store, with Alicia Vikander playing the part of a sophisticated robot who is increasingly unhappy about its (her) existence.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/05/human-robot-interactions-take-step-forward-with-emotional-chatting-machine-chatbot

Human-robot interactions take step forward with 'emotional' chat-bot

www.theguardian.com

Researchers describe the ‘emotional chatting machine’ as a first attempt at the problem of creating machines that can fully understand user emotion

VUID Toolkit

Of Interest to Chat BOT developers:

The Voice User Interface Designers Toolkit is an open-source project that supports designing and maintaining a text or voice user interface.    

https://sites.google.com/site/ivrdesigngroup//vuid-toolkit

Courage to Resist

From the (University of) Michigan Engineering Magazine:

https://medium.com/@UMengineering/courage-to-resist-ddb84e3a2f0

Life Immitates Art

From the Inc. magazine - 

"The Best Show on Television Just Provided the Best Definition of a Great Business"

"What is it you do that you're the best in the world at? You offer a service you didn't invent, a formula you didn't invent, a delivery method you didn't invent. Nothing about what you do is patentable or a unique user experience. You haven't identified an isolated market segment, haven't truly branded your concept. You need me to go on?

So why would an investment bank put serious money into it? I all but told you that ahead of time, but you wouldn't listen. Now you've heard it, but it's too late. You. Weren't. Ready."

I add also that "only the paranoid survive" per the sage advice of the late Any Grove, the former Chairman of Intel.

Why IoT Sucks (And Why That's Good for Partners)

From the April 2017 issue of the Redmond Channel Partner magazine:

https://rcpmag.com/articles/2017/04/01/why-iot-sucks.aspx