Talk on Artificial Dialog Agents with David Traum

Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming pervasive in all aspects of our world. An upcoming public lecture by David Traum, Principal Scientist at the Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT) and Research Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), will explore Artificial Dialog Agents and some of the cutting-edge research that is taking place in this space. This hybrid event is being organised by Dr Emer Gilmartin, researcher at the SFI ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin. Traum will present overviews and demonstrations of several recent and ongoing projects, showing some of the diversity of applications for computer systems that can engage people in multimodal dialogue. Projects overviewed include:

• Simsensei (multi-modal psychological assessment open ended elicitation)


• Primer (middle-school bullying counselling, use of emotional assessment)


• Bilingual Dialogue (language learning, language preservation, code-switching)


• RAVE (pre-linguistic conversation, multimodal inputs)


• New Dimensions in Testimony (preserve one-on-one history learning, support interaction with video of real person)


• Mr Clue (word guessing game, multi-role interaction, learning by observing partner play complementary role in activity)


• Botlanguage (robot search & navigation, multi-floor dialogue)


• Human Swarm Interaction (multiple conversation threads)

The event is free and open to the public. Individuals interested in attending this invigorating event (in person or virtually), can register here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/talk-on-artificial-dialog-agents-with-david-traum-tickets-404034336577