The Job For Me - Pretend to be a Robot in Paris
I can't believe this is real. The second I graduate I'm going to go to this company. This reminds me a lot of Alice the AI, who I spoke with at the San Jose Robot Convention. It's the saddest feeling in the world when it hits you that she's not real..
WRITER (WEB)
Date: 2007-04-05, 3:15PM CEST
As An Angel SA, a start-up which develops Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA), seeks 5 English Native Speakers for an on line corpus collection through the methodology of the Wizard of Oz.
A WOz is a type of experimental dialogue scenario in which a human subject believes himself/herself to be communicating with a conversational agent, when in fact the responses are made by a hidden human being. The purpose of WOz experiment is to find out as much as possible about how humans would behave in a human-machine dialogue situation.
Company: http://www.asanangel.com
Examples of Conversational Agents produced:
Mona, http://www.france5.fr/Mona
Ophélia, http://www.asanangel.fr/options
Mission: Simulate a conversational agent and produce 50 dialogues (or more) with English Native Speakers. Approximately 40/50 hours of work.
Profile: minimum BA or BS (MA or MS preferred). Excellent communication skills. Computer with fast internet connection (ADSL) needed. Interest for photography a plus.
Dates: April 2007
Place of work : 1 day in our office for training, then at home.
Remuneration: 500 €.
Contact: Please send CV, photo and references
WRITER (WEB)
Date: 2007-04-05, 3:15PM CEST
As An Angel SA, a start-up which develops Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA), seeks 5 English Native Speakers for an on line corpus collection through the methodology of the Wizard of Oz.
A WOz is a type of experimental dialogue scenario in which a human subject believes himself/herself to be communicating with a conversational agent, when in fact the responses are made by a hidden human being. The purpose of WOz experiment is to find out as much as possible about how humans would behave in a human-machine dialogue situation.
Company: http://www.asanangel.com
Examples of Conversational Agents produced:
Mona, http://www.france5.fr/Mona
Ophélia, http://www.asanangel.fr/options
Mission: Simulate a conversational agent and produce 50 dialogues (or more) with English Native Speakers. Approximately 40/50 hours of work.
Profile: minimum BA or BS (MA or MS preferred). Excellent communication skills. Computer with fast internet connection (ADSL) needed. Interest for photography a plus.
Dates: April 2007
Place of work : 1 day in our office for training, then at home.
Remuneration: 500 €.
Contact: Please send CV, photo and references