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Multimodal conversational spoken dialogues using physical and virtual agents provide a potential interface to motivate and support users in the domain of health and fitness. The paper presents a multimodal conversational Companion system focused on health and fitness, which has both a stationary and a mobile component. | A Mobile Health and Fitness Companion Demonstrator Bjorn Gamback1 2 Markku Turunen3 Olov Stahl1 1ICE Userware Swedish Inst. of Computer Science Kista Sweden olovs gamback @sics.se 2Dpt. Computer Information Science Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway gamback@idi.ntnu.no Jaakko Hakulinen3 3Dpt. Computer Sciences Univ. of Tampere Tampere Finland mturunen jh @cs.uta.fi Abstract Multimodal conversational spoken dialogues using physical and virtual agents provide a potential interface to motivate and support users in the domain of health and fitness. The paper presents a multimodal conversational Companion system focused on health and fitness which has both a stationary and a mobile component. 1 Introduction Spoken dialogue systems have traditionally focused on task-oriented dialogues such as making flight bookings or providing public transport timetables. In emerging areas such as domain-oriented dialogues Dybkjaer et al. 2004 the interaction with the system typically modelled as a conversation with a virtual anthropomorphic character can be the main motivation for the interaction. Recent research has coined the term Companions to describe embodied multimodal conversational agents having a long lasting interaction history with their users Wilks 2007 . Such a conversational Companion within the Health and Fitness H F domain helps its users to a healthier lifestyle. An H F Companion has quite different motivations for use than traditional task-based spoken dialogue systems. Instead of helping with a single well-defined task it truly aims to be a Companion to the user providing social support in everyday activities. The system should thus be a peer rather than act as an expert system in health-related issues. It is important to stress that it is the Companion concept which is central rather than the fitness area as such. Thus it is not of vital importance that the system should be a first-rate fitness coach but it is essential that it The work was .
