What is the difference between the Simple Music Companion and the Adaptive Music Companion?

The Simple Music Companion (SMC) and the Adaptive Music Companion (AMC) differ in their cognitive capabilities. While SMC analyses the user input and then applies as set of simple rules to decide how to react to the user input, the AMC is able to learn from positive and negative feedback of the user and accordingly adapt its reactions to the user input. The AMC is also equipped with a short-term memory to remember which actions it has already performed to answer the current user question. Thus it is able to try its full action repertoire, and if the user is still unsatisfied, to tell her/him that it cannot do better at the moment. and that the user should ask another question. The AMC also memorizes the dialogue of the current sessions with the user, and therefore realizes when the user asks the same question over and over again and never is satisfied. As a consequence an AMC will tell off the user at a certain point of interaction.

RASCALLI is supported by the European Commission Cognitive Systems Programme (IST-27596-2004).

 
 
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