Conversational Interfaces 2014/2015

Platform + Scaling

In this module, exploring paradigms for interaction, navigation, conversation; considering different paradigms for authoring / writing (interactive) characters.

Scaling to consider also scales of time.

Part I: Conversational interfaces

• Douglas Englebart: Mother of all demos
• Daughter of all demos, Saskia Aldinger https://vimeo.com/40683500
• Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, (Samsung means to come)[1]
• Donald Rodney, AUTOICON (CD-ROM)
• A Conversation with Eliza
• The Eliza Effect
• Weizenbaum clip (Plug and Pray? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5oZcsAJm8)
• Videodrome, Professor Oblivion, dir. David Cronenberg, 1983
• Put that there, Architecture Machine Group, MIT, 1981
• Image interrogation, Blade Runner dir. Ridley Scott, 1982
• Antonio Roberts, Electic Voice Phenomenon
• Apple: Knowledge Explorer

• Work in progress: Botopera

Practical Exercise

• IRC server
• pipeline to chatbot... (ircpipebot for quick chatbots?)

For next time, mockup a conversational interface...

• A: Python (/ IRC)
• B: Transformations of a text, to be performed in a text editor
• C: Image response (a la daughter of all demos ), or Image interrogation

Some tools

• Regular expressions
• Python + IRC