The Conversational Interface

1. Introducing the Conversational Interface
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

Part I. Conversational Interfaces: Preliminaries

2. The Dawn of the Conversational Interface
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

3. Toward a Technology of Conversation
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

4. Conversational Interfaces: Past and Present
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

Part II. Developing a Speech-Based Conversational Interface

5. Speech Input and Output
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

6. Implementing Speech Input and Output
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

7. Creating a Conversational Interface Using Chatbot Technology
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

8. Spoken Language Understanding
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

9. Implementing Spoken Language Understanding
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

10. Dialog Management
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

11. Implementing Dialog Management
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

12. Response Generation
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

Part III. Conversational Interfaces and Devices

13. Conversational Interfaces: Devices, Wearables, Virtual Agents, and Robots
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

14. Emotion, Affect, and Personality
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

15. Affective Conversational Interfaces
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

16. Implementing Multimodal Conversational Interfaces Using Android Wear
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

Part IV. Evaluation and Future Directions

17. Evaluating the Conversational Interface
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

18. Future Directions
Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

Keywords: Engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Language Translation and Linguistics