Recent improvements in natural language processing pushed the development of a wide range of products and applications that allow natural spoken interaction for children. Previous studies explored conversational agents for children and found out that they are valuable both for playing and learning. In addition, recent researches highlighted that, when we want to develop a conversational tool for children, we must consider that they have different modes from adults and they approach conversational technologies in a different way because of their linguistic skills, their way of conducting dialogues and, more generally, their interaction attitude. In this paper, we describe Smemo, a multi-modal interface for children aged 6 to 9 years old. This tool permits to approach conversational technologies in an original and multi-modal way giving the user the possibility to customize and personalize the agent. The main goal of Smemo is to promote an innovative learning method by putting children at the center of the process.

Cutrupi, C., Fadda, S., Valcarenghi, G., Cosentino, G., Catania, F., Spitale, M., et al. (2020). Smemo: a Multi-modal Interface Promoting Children's Creation of Personal Conversational Agents. In CUI '20: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (pp.1-3). Association for Computing Machinery [10.1145/3405755.3406162].

Smemo: a Multi-modal Interface Promoting Children's Creation of Personal Conversational Agents

Garzotto, Franca
2020

Abstract

Recent improvements in natural language processing pushed the development of a wide range of products and applications that allow natural spoken interaction for children. Previous studies explored conversational agents for children and found out that they are valuable both for playing and learning. In addition, recent researches highlighted that, when we want to develop a conversational tool for children, we must consider that they have different modes from adults and they approach conversational technologies in a different way because of their linguistic skills, their way of conducting dialogues and, more generally, their interaction attitude. In this paper, we describe Smemo, a multi-modal interface for children aged 6 to 9 years old. This tool permits to approach conversational technologies in an original and multi-modal way giving the user the possibility to customize and personalize the agent. The main goal of Smemo is to promote an innovative learning method by putting children at the center of the process.
paper
Children; Conversational Technology; Language Learning; Learning; Natural Language Visualization;
English
2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2020 - July 22 - 24, 2020
2020
CUI '20: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
9781450375443
2020
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3
3406162
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Cutrupi, C., Fadda, S., Valcarenghi, G., Cosentino, G., Catania, F., Spitale, M., et al. (2020). Smemo: a Multi-modal Interface Promoting Children's Creation of Personal Conversational Agents. In CUI '20: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (pp.1-3). Association for Computing Machinery [10.1145/3405755.3406162].
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