Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mona Soliman Habib

Tae Hong Joo

Tarek Z Elabbady

Katsushi Ikeuchi

Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for altering the behavior of an electronic personal assistant based on a situation associated with a mobile device. A situation is sensed with a plurality of sensors to generate sensor data. A situation score is calculated based on the sensor data. Behavior of an electronic personal assistant is altered based on the calculated situation score. In one aspect, the situation is a driving situation in which a driver drives a vehicle on a roadway. In such case, a driving situation score is calculated based on the sensor data, and behavior of the electronic personal assistant is altered based on the calculated driving situation score, such as suspending interactions by the electronic personal assistant with the driver to avoid the driver being distracted.

Situation aware personal assistant

A method and apparatus for robot gesture generation is described. Generally speaking, a concept corresponding to a utterance to be spoken by a robot is determined (). After a concept is determined or selected, a symbolic representation of a gesture that corresponds to the determined concept is retrieved from a predetermined gesture library (). Subsequently, the symbolic representation is provided to cause the robot to perform the gesture (). In such way, a more natural, comprehensive and effective communication between human and robots may be achieved.

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Mona Soliman Habib