Pioneer Corporation

Yoshihiro Kawazoe

Takehiko Shioda

Shinichi Gayama

Toshio Tabata

Hajime Kobayashi

An interactive information providing apparatus is provided with: an output component that provides an information requesting output for requesting a user for information; an input component that receives from the user input information to the information requesting output; and an interaction controller component that controls the output component and the input component according to a scenario, to carry on a dialogue with the user. In the apparatus, the interaction controller component changes a level at which the output component requests a user for information, according to an importance parameter associated with the scenario.

Interactive information providing apparatus, interactive information providing program, and storage medium having stored same

A navigation apparatus, which is to be mounted on a movable body, comprises a navigation information acquisition unit, a requirement judgment unit and a control unit. The navigation information acquisition unit acquires navigation information relating to movement of the movable body. The requirement judgment unit judges as whether or not dialog start requirements are satisfied on the basis of the navigation information. The control unit gives a speech to a user to start providing interactive information, in case where the dialog start requirements are satisfied.

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Tsurugashima, Japan

Yoshihiro Kawazoe