Companion Technology A Paradigm Shift in Human-Technology Interactio
Future technical systems will be companion systems, competent assistants that provide their functionality in a completely individualized way, adapting to a user’s capabilities, preferences, requirements, and current needs, and taking into account both the
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Susanne Biundo Andreas Wendemuth Editors
Companion Technology
A Paradigm Shift in Human-Technology Interaction
Cognitive Technologies Managing Editors: D.M. Gabbay J. Siekmann
Editorial Board: A. Bundy J.G. Carbonell M. Pinkal H. Uszkoreit M.M. Veloso W. Wahlster M. Wooldridge
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5216
Susanne Biundo • Andreas Wendemuth Editors
Companion Technology A Paradigm Shift in Human-Technology Interaction
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Editors Susanne Biundo Institute of Artificial Intelligence UniversitRat Ulm Ulm, Germany
ISSN 1611-2482 Cognitive Technologies ISBN 978-3-319-43664-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43665-4
Andreas Wendemuth Cognitive Systems Group, Institute for Information Technology and Communications (IIKT) and Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS) Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg Magdeburg, Germany
ISSN 2197-6635 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-43665-4 (eBook)
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Preface
Any technical system is a Companion—a competent, adaptable, responsive and reliable assistant that provides its functionality individually tailored to the specific needs of each user. This vision lies behind the endeavor to open up a novel cross-disciplinary field of research. Companion-technology aims to overcome the discrepancy between the sometimes almost unmanageably complex technical functionality of modern systems on the one hand and the users’ demand for an easy-to-use, customized deployment of this functionality on the other hand. It does so by enabling the realizatio
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