Smart Personal Assistants

[Admin]

As part of the ROCKIT strategic roadmapping action in the area of multimodal conversational interaction technologies, CITIA has arrived at a set of five target research and innovation scenarios, presented and discussed here.

These scenarios represent a number of common themes arising from the workshops organized uring the process: accessibility, multilinguality, the importance of design, privacy by design, systems for all of human–human, human–machine, and human–environment interactions, robustness, security, potentially ephemeral interactions, and using the technology to enable fun.

This thread presents and discusses the second scenario: Smart Personal Assistants which can be found in the attached document.

[Peter Hauser]

Smart mobile agents will go a long way - I do see tremendous complexity in respect of accuracy, vocabulary, integration, upgrades, updates, new releases. Market will be driven by integrated solutions from vendors, today available SIRI solution as a 1st hint where the market to drive to.
Focus on specific domains is simply mandatory, replacement of traditional interfaces will demand for heavy marketing activities (change user behave is time and $ consuming), Industrial applications, hands free applications will go for smart mobile agents, but this would represent a limited volume market only.
Vertical applications by Enterprises might be the most appropriate way to succes - integration with SW vendors such as MSFT, SAP, Oracle, Google and for sure healtare service and knowledge providers.