The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices

Introduction.- Part 1: Conversational Interfaces: Preliminaries.- The Dawn of the Conversational Interface.- Towards a Technology of Conversation.- Conversational Interfaces: Past and Present.- Part 2: Developing a Speech-Based Conversational Interface.- Speech Input and Output.- Implementing Speech Input and Output.- Creating a Conversational Interface using Chatbot Technology.- Spoken Language Understanding.- Implementing Spoken Language Understanding.- Dialog Management.- Implementing Dialog Management.- Response Generation.- Part 3: Conversational Interfaces and Devices.- Conversational Interfaces: Devices, Wearables, Virtual Agents, and Robots.- Emotion, Affect, and Personality.- Affective Conversational Interfaces.- Implementing Multimodal Conversational Interfaces Using Android Wear.- Part 4: Evaluation and Future Directions.- Evaluation.- Future Directions.