The evolution of an agent - Betty. A reminiscence companion for older people who have experienced isolation and loneliness as well as ageing memory loss.

1. Introducing a conversational agent called
Betty
Collette Curry, James O’Shea, Keeley Crockett, Laura Brown
Intelligent Systems Group
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2. By Maxine Xavier
The
imitation
game
1950
Alan Turing
Computing Machinery and Intelligence,
"I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'"
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3. ELIZA
1966
People became very emotionally caught up
for several minutes.
Joseph Weizenbaum
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4. PARRY
1970’s
Kenneth Colby
PARRY and ELIZA (also known as "the Doctor") "met" several times.
The most famous of these exchanges occurred at the ICCC 1972,
where PARRY and ELIZA were hooked up over ARPANET and "talked" to each other.
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5. RACTER
1980’s
”BASIC on a Z80 micro with 64K of RAM."
Bill Chamberlain
& Thomas Etter
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6. Story-themed agents
TALE-SPIN
James Meehan
BRUTUS
S Bringsjord
MEXICA
MINSTREL
Rafael Pérez
& Mike Sharples
S Turner
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7. 2011
Narrator
Themed around the Ark Royal ships,
from 1588 to 2011.
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8. Adam –
student
debt
advisor
Intelligent Systems Group
InfoChat
System
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9. 3.3 million people
aged over 85
by 2033 in the UK
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11. Betty
2013
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12. Eliza
Racter
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13. Betty
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Reminiscence interview of users lives incorporated
Keywords extracted from recordings and questionnaires
Subjective well-being is improved
Aging memory loss is improved by continued use
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14. ‘Betty the companion’
Reminiscence
ontology
Eliza layer
Learns
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15. Email: collette.curry@mmu.ac.uk
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