Migratable AI

Conversational AI agents are proliferating, embodying a range of devices such as smart speakers, smart displays, robots, cars, and more. We can envision a future where a personal conversational agent could migrate across different form factors and environments to always accompany and assist its user to support a far more continuous, personalized, and collaborative experience. This opens the question of what properties of a conversational AI agent migrates across forms, and how it would impact user perception. To explore this, we developed a Migratable AI system where a user's information and/or the agent's identity can be preserved as it migrates across form factors to help its user with a task. We designed a 2x2 between-subjects study to explore the effects of information migration and identity migration on user perceptions of trust, competence, likeability, and social presence. Our results suggest that identity migration had a positive effect on trust, competence, and social presence, while information migration had a positive effect on trust, competence, and likeability. Overall, users report the highest trust, competence, likeability, and social presence towards the conversational agent when both identity and information were migrated across embodiments.

Car Monitoring System in Apartment Garages by Small Autonomous Car using Deep Learning

Currently, there is an increase in the number of Peruvian families living in apartments instead of houses for the lots of advantage; however, in some cases there are troubles such as robberies of goods that are usually left at the parking lots or the entrance of strangers that use the tenants parking lots (this last trouble sometimes is related to kidnappings or robberies in building apartments). Due to these problems, the use of a self-driving mini-car is proposed to implement a monitoring system of license plates in an underground garage inside a building using a deep learning model with the aim of recording the vehicles and identifying their owners if they were tenants or not. In addition, the small robot has its own location system using beacons that allow us to identify the position of the parking lot corresponding to each tenant of the building while the mini-car is on its way. Finally, one of the objectives of this work is to build a low cost mini-robot that would replace expensive cameras or work together in order to keep safe the goods of tenants.