Pro-active Meeting Assistants : Attention Please!

This paper gives an overview of pro-active meeting assistants, what they are and when they can be useful. We explain how to develop such assistants with respect to requirement definitions and elaborate on a set of Wizard of Oz experiments, aiming to find out in which form a meeting assistant should operate to be accepted by participants and whether the meeting effectiveness and efficiency can be improved by an assistant at all

Pro-active Meeting Assistants: Attention Please!

This paper gives an overview of pro-active meeting assistants, what they are and when they can be useful. We explain how to develop such assistants with respect to requirement definitions and elaborate on a set of Wizard of Oz experiments, aiming to find out in which form a meeting assistant should operate to be accepted by participants and whether the meeting effectiveness and efficiency can be improved by an assistant at all. This paper gives an overview of pro-active meeting assistants, what they are and when they can be useful. We explain how to develop such assistants with respect to requirement definitions and elaborate on a set of Wizard of Oz experiments, aiming to find out in which form a meeting assistant should operate to be accepted by participants and whether the meeting effectiveness and efficiency can be improved by an assistant at all

A Frame Tracking Model for Memory-Enhanced Dialogue Systems

Recently, resources and tasks were proposed to go beyond state tracking in dialogue systems. An example is the frame tracking task, which requires recording multiple frames, one for each user goal set during the dialogue. This allows a user, for instance, to compare items corresponding to different goals. This paper proposes a model which takes as input the list of frames created so far during the dialogue, the current user utterance as well as the dialogue acts, slot types, and slot values associated with this utterance. The model then outputs the frame being referenced by each triple of dialogue act, slot type, and slot value. We show that on the recently published Frames dataset, this model significantly outperforms a previously proposed rule-based baseline. In addition, we propose an extensive analysis of the frame tracking task by dividing it into sub-tasks and assessing their difficulty with respect to our model

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a Resource for Teaching English and Social Skills in High School Education

Most of the official documents related to education mention the Social and Civic Competence as a very significant one. The importance of the development of social and emotional skills for students’ success in their academic and personal lives can be explained through SEL approach, as well as why they should be included in our country’s teaching system. In this context, the aim of this dissertation is to create a teaching project for the first foreign language classroom (English), with which Bachillerato first year students can develop their linguistic competence as well as their social and emotional skills. In order to do so, I have chosen the tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by Frank Baum, as the starting point for the creation of activities related to social and emotional skills. The appropriateness of literature and particularly of the use of this American classic in Bachillerato has been also discussed.Este TFM tiene como objetivo crear una unidad didáctica para la clase de inglés como primera lengua extranjera, con la que los estudiantes del primer curso de Bachillerato desarrollen tanto la competencia lingüística como las habilidades socioemocionales. Para ello, se ha escogido el cuento infantil El Maravilloso Mago de Oz, escrito por Frank Baum, como punto de partida para crear las actividades relacionadas con las competencias anteriores. Primero se ha explicado la importancia del desarrollo de las habilidades socioemocionales para que los alumnos tengan éxito tanto en su vida personal como académica, y por qué su desarrollo debería incluirse en el sistema educativo español. Como se podrá comprobar en este TFM, muchos de los documentos oficiales relacionados con las leyes educativas hacen referencia a la competencia social y cívica como una de las más importantes. Por otro lado, se ha analizado si el texto escogido es adecuado para que lo lea el alumnado al que va dirigida la unidad didáctica. Y por último, se ha expuesto la propuesta didáctica propiamente dicha.Departamento de Filología InglesaMáster en Profesor de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanzas de Idioma

It\u27s Just That For The First Time, I Feel... Wicked : A Rhetorical Analysis of Wicked\u27s Elphaba Using Kenneth Burke\u27s Guilt-Purification-Redemption Cycle

The purpose of this study was to examine the Broadway production, Wicked, and more specifically, the character of Elphaba, or the Wicked Witch of the West. The study utilized Kenneth Burke\u27s theory of the guilt-purification-redemption cycle, and considered Elphaba\u27s journey between the three steps of Burke\u27s cycle. In order to understand this journey better, the researcher considered various facets of the show, including the script, lyrics, costuming, including attire and make-up, and interactions with other characters in the production. Elphaba\u27s causes of guilt, including her mother\u27s death, her relationship with Glinda, her cause in working with Animals, and failed magic were discussed. Following this, was a discussion of her various attempts at purification, including both mortification and scapegoating, and finally her ultimate redemption both in her own eyes and those who meant the most to her. By the finale of the Wicked production, audiences see Elphaba gain redemption. Though she does not necessarily gain forgiveness or redemption from those around her in Oz, she does finally learn to accept herself, and unhindered by peer pressure, Elphaba is able to live the life for which she has always hoped

Intertextuality in media discourse: A reader’s perspective

The article is a part of a research project on how intertextuality is perceived by readers of media texts. The focus of the article is on how intertextual references are recognized, interpreted, and sub-stituted by EFL respondents. Based on the results of the survey, conclusions are drawn to address the following research questions – whether respondents can recognize intertextual references as such in the context, whether they can interpret an utterance despite failing to detect intertextual segments, and whether there exists a correspondence between recognizability of an intertextual reference and attempts at defining and/or replacing it. This paper is an attempt to empirically verify theoretical views on intertextuality. The results of the survey provide insights into how intertextuality is perceived by respondents

Designing Automated Facilitation for Design Thinking: A Chatbot for Supporting Teams in the Empathy Map Method

The Empathy Map Method (EMM) in the Design Thinking approach is a powerful tool for user centered design but relies on the methodological skills and experience of rare facilitation experts to guide the team. In a collaboration engineering effort, we aim to make this expertise available to teams without constant access to a professional facilitator by packaging facilitation knowledge into structured process support and state-of-the art technology. Based on requirements from scientific and practitioners’ literature, we introduce the concept of a conversational agent in the form of a chatbot to take over the role of the facilitator of the EMM. We present an initial wizard of oz evaluation to derive insights and implications for improvements and the software implementation towards the ambitious goal of automated, non-human facilitation of EMM

Wizundry: A Cooperative Wizard of Oz Platform for Simulating Future Speech-based Interfaces with Multiple Wizards

Wizard of Oz (WoZ) as a prototyping method has been used to simulate intelligent user interfaces, particularly for speech-based systems. However, as our societies' expectations on artificial intelligence (AI) grows, the question remains whether a single Wizard is sufficient for it to simulate smarter systems and more complex interactions. Optimistic visions of 'what artificial intelligence (AI) can do' places demands on WoZ platforms to simulate smarter systems and more complex interactions. This raises the question of whether the typical approach of employing a single Wizard is sufficient. Moreover, while existing work has employed multiple Wizards in WoZ studies, a multi-Wizard approach has not been systematically studied in terms of feasibility, effectiveness, and challenges. We offer Wizundry, a real-time, web-based WoZ platform that allows multiple Wizards to collaboratively operate a speech-to-text based system remotely. We outline the design and technical specifications of our open-source platform, which we iterated over two design phases. We report on two studies in which participant-Wizards were tasked with negotiating how to cooperatively simulate an interface that can handle natural speech for dictation and text editing as well as other intelligent text processing tasks. We offer qualitative findings on the Multi-Wizard experience for Dyads and Triads of Wizards. Our findings reveal the promises and challenges of the multi-Wizard approach and open up new research questions.Comment: 34 page