Personality generator for conversational systems
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJan Kleindienst, Ganesh N. Ramaswamy, Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Daniel M. Coffman
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Abstract
A method for providing a personality for a conversational system includes providing a plurality of attributes for determining a behavior of the conversational system. When a command is presented to the conversational system for execution, the command is responded to by employing the plurality of attributes such that the user experiences an interface with human characteristics.
Claims23
A method for providing a personality for a conversational system, comprising the steps of:
- providing a personality comprising a plurality of attributes for determining a behavior of the conversational system, wherein the attributes comprise attributes for specifying one or more emotions associated with the personality, wherein the emotions comprise one of a growing emotion, a dissipating emotion and both;
- presenting a command to the conversational system for execution;
- and
- responding to the command by employing the plurality of attributes such that the user experiences an interface with human characteristics, wherein an emotional level of a growing emotion increases as a function of time and decreases upon user stimuli and wherein an emotional level of a dissipating emotion decreases as a function of time and increases upon user stimuli.
A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for providing a personality for a conversational system, the method steps comprising:
- providing a personality comprising a plurality of attributes for determining a behavior of the conversational system, wherein the attributes comprise attributes for specifying one or more emotions associated with the personality, wherein the emotions comprise one of a growing emotion, a dissipating emotion and both;
- presenting a command to the conversational system for execution;
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- responding to the command by employing the plurality of attributes such that the user experiences an interface with human characteristics, wherein an emotional level of a growing emotion increases as a function of time and decreases upon user stimuli and wherein an emotional level of a dissipating emotion decreases as a function of time and increases upon user stimuli.
A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for providing a conversational user interface with personality, the method steps comprising:
- executing an application comprising a personality, the personality comprising a plurality of attributes for specifying a behavior of the conversational user interface, the attributes comprising attributes for specifying one or more emotions associated with the personality, wherein the emotions comprise one of a growing emotion, a dissipating emotion and both;
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- responding to user commands by employing the plurality of attributes such that the user experiences a user interface with human characteristics, wherein an emotional level of a growing emotion increases as a function of time and decreases upon user stimuli and wherein an emotional level of a dissipating emotion decreases as a function of time and increases upon user stimuli.
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