FALCON (Personal Assistant)

Virtual Personal Assistant

From Personal Computer to Personal Assistant

Much of the confusion that surrounds electronic personal assistants arises from the open-ended complexity of their development. In this paper we categorise some of their more common uses before suggesting several thought-provoking extensions.

Evaluating A Personal Information Assistant

Personal Information Assistants that search on user’s behalf aim to fetch relevant documents on a regular basis. We have developed such assistant system and evaluated it using a long-term, task-oriented approach involving real users. Current evaluation methodologies are inadequate and hence have resorted to a long-term real user study. This paper describes the design and development of our syst...

The IBM Personal Speech Assistant

In this paper, we describe technology and experience with an experimental personal information manager, which interacts with the user primarily but not exclusively through speech recognition and synthesis. This device, which controls a client PDA, is known as the Personal Speech Assistant (PSA). The PSA contains complete speech recognition, speech synthesis and dialog management systems. Packag...

Multi-agent Personal Memory Assistant

Memory is one of our most precious goods has it gives us the ability to store, retain and recall information thus giving a meaning to our past and help us to envision our future, dreams and expectations. However, ageing decreases the capacity of remembering and the capacity to store new memories, thus affecting our life quality. These presented problems configure a social and human dilemma. Wit...