Companion-Technology: An Overview

Companion-technology is an emerging field of cross-disciplinary research. It aims at developing technical systems that appear as “Companions” to their users. They serve as co-operative agents assisting in particular tasks or, in a more general sense, even give companionship to humans. Overall, Companion-technology enables technical systems to smartly adapt their services to individual users’ current needs, their requests,

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: KI
• Authors: Susanne Biundo, Daniel Höller, Bernd Schattenberg, Pascal Bercher
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, KI 2016