MateBot: The Design of a Human-Like, Context-Sensitive Virtual Bot for Harmonious Human-Computer Interaction

Ziqi Wang, Bin Guo, Hao Wang, Helei Cui, Yang He, Zhiwen Yu

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Abstract

The virtual bot is one of the hot topics in artificial intelligence, where most of the current studies focus on chatbots. Nevertheless, the context-sensitive virtual bot, especially with rich human-like interactions (e.g., appearance change, context-aware narration/recommendation) regarding the ambient changes (e.g., location, focused scene) through various built-in sensors, would have broader application. Towards this direction, we propose MateBot, a human-like, context-sensitive virtual bot, which supports harmonious human-computer interaction on smartphones. The design of MateBot consists of three parts. First, a context sensing network is used to recognize the input background information and face information, and modify the appearance of the virtual bot through the conversion of the encoding network. Second, a human-like bot appearance generation network can generate a virtual bot image with a human-like appearance through the GAN network and modify the appearance of the virtual bot with context-sensitive information. Third, a personalized conversation network is devised to communicate with human users. Furthermore, we apply MateBot to the intelligent travel scenario to justify its practicality, and the experiment results show that the bot can better increase the user’s sense of substitution and improve the communication efficiency between human users and virtual bots.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGreen, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing - 15th International Conference, GPC 2020, Proceedings
EditorsZhiwen Yu, Christian Becker, Guoliang Xing
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages273-287
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783030642426
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event15th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2020 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 13 Nov 202015 Nov 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12398 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period13/11/2015/11/20

Keywords

  • Context-sensitive
  • MateBot
  • Virtual bot

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