A Cloud-based User-Centered Time-Offset Interaction Application

Alberto Chierici, Tyeece Kiana Fredorcia Hensley, Wahib Kamran, Kertu Koss, Armaan Agrawal, Erin Meekhof, Goffredo Puccetti, Nizar Habash


Abstract
Time-offset interaction applications (TOIA) allow simulating conversations with people who have previously recorded relevant video utterances, which are played in response to their interacting user. TOIAs have great potential for preserving cross-generational and cross-cultural histories, online teaching, simulated interviews, etc. Current TOIAs exist in niche contexts involving high production costs. Democratizing TOIA presents different challenges when creating appropriate pre-recordings, designing different user stories, and creating simple online interfaces for experimentation. We open-source TOIA 2.0, a user-centered time-offset interaction application, and make it available for everyone who wants to interact with people’s pre-recordings, or create their pre-recordings.
Anthology ID:
2021.sigdial-1.29
Volume:
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Month:
July
Year:
2021
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Singapore and Online
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Haizhou Li, Gina-Anne Levow, Zhou Yu, Chitralekha Gupta, Berrak Sisman, Siqi Cai, David Vandyke, Nina Dethlefs, Yan Wu, Junyi Jessy Li
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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265–268
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.29
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.sigdial-1.29
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Alberto Chierici, Tyeece Kiana Fredorcia Hensley, Wahib Kamran, Kertu Koss, Armaan Agrawal, Erin Meekhof, Goffredo Puccetti, and Nizar Habash. 2021. A Cloud-based User-Centered Time-Offset Interaction Application. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 265–268, Singapore and Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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