This book is the culmination of both the discussions at Shonan Meeting 214, “The Future of Education with AI” and the output of the Trilateral AI Research Project, “Learnincy Cyclotron (LeCycl)”. In particular, this book looks at the use of AI in education through a human computer interacton (HCI) lens. The main premise behind this work is that theory without implementation is a meaningless abstraction that neglects the moral imperative to advance the human condition. Implementation withou...

This book presents lectures given at the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems. As agents evolve in terms of their ability to carry on a dialog with users, several qualities are emerging as essential components of a successful system. Users do not carry on long conversations on only one topic—they tend to switch between several topics. Thus the authors are observing the emergence of multi-domain systems that enable users to seamlessly hop from one domain to another. The syste...

These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically: 1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; 2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; 3. Dialog for robot interaction; 4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and,5. Dialog quality evaluation. These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.