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Could software replace your doctor? | USA Today
Hallie Siegel
10 Jul 2014
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Putting the IV into Intelligent Virtual Assistants
Mark Stephen Meadows
06 Mar 2014
The incoming second wave of contextual agents
There's a virtual lobby of Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) waiting to help us these days. These multi-million dollar systems include Yahoo's Don...
Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)
Mark Stephen Meadows
20 Nov 2013
This article returns to the thread of the last few months by looking at how robots can measure our emotions and body language.
My aunt, a Tennessee tobacco grower, used to remind me that God gave m...
Do robots need heads?
RBI Editors
15 Aug 2013
Robots are machines and most people agree that they primarily serve a utilitarian purpose. So why do so many of them have heads? Here are some thoughts by AJung Moon, Mark Stephen Meadows, Travis Deyl...
Mark Stephen Meadows on “Do robots need heads?”
Mark Stephen Meadows
15 Aug 2013
I don't know about you, but if something has a head I assume it has thoughts. When watching a movie I stare at the character's face because I want to know what they feel. So for me a head's a pretty i...
In-corporating body language into NLP (or, More notes on the design of automated body language)
Mark Stephen Meadows
07 Aug 2013
This article discusses how body language is a part of natural language, personality, and NLP design. The article covers various methods for approaching this problem and makes recommendations for the r...
My robot is smelling my dirty laundry (or, Notes on privacy, PRISM, and home service robotics)
Mark Stephen Meadows
03 Jul 2013
This article considers privacy in robotic systems (such as personal service robotics) as being of greater importance than privacy in telecommunications (such as Internet). We will return to our regula...
“A Paro walks into a club…” (or, Notes on the design of automated body language)
Mark Stephen Meadows
05 Jun 2013
This article discusses personality design and how proper natural language interface design includes body language. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots. It argues that psyc...
The uncanny valet (or, Notes on the design of robot psychology)
Mark Stephen Meadows
04 May 2013
This article outlines the problems of today's phone and online help systems and offers solutions to conversational systems of tomorrow. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots, ...
AFK (or, Robotic free speech, and what you can do to help)
Mark Stephen Meadows
03 Apr 2013
This article looks at how the robotics industry of today is following in the footsteps of the personal computer industry of yesterday, and why Natural Language Processing, like the Graphical User Inte...
The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)
Mark Stephen Meadows
06 Mar 2013
This article looks at the arrival of systems such as Siri, Google Now, and Watson and claims that these systems are the search engines of the next decade because they mine intimate data. Since they ...
