Conversational Agents, Language Understanding Systems, Affective Computing and more. The SIS Lab realizes intelligent and conversational machine prototypes. In this selection we give an overview of the research challenges and applications.

Trento, December 12 2018 – Almost four million in funding to create an ambitious project: developing conversational artificial intelligence to support aging and active population. It is the overall budget of “Coadapt”, the international project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program, in which the University of Trento will lead the research and development of  conversational artificial intelligence prototypes. A large part of...

Personal Healthcare Agents (PHA) will change people’s lives and revolutionize the way they manage their wellbeing and health. They will be able to sense the environment , the personal and social behavior , as well as the human organ systems. They will be elaborating, interpreting, summarizing and making sense of these signals and share it with you as well as your caregivers. They will be playing a key role in providing evidence for personalized therapies and in...

A group of students from Signals and Interactive Systems Lab at University of Trento ( Italy ), was chosen as one of the 12 sponsored university teams all over the world to participate to the Alexa prize, a one-year long competition sponsored by Amazon to advance conversational Artificial Intelligence. The aim of the competition is to create a social computer (“bot”) able to have coherent and engaging conversations with humans about popular topics such as politics...