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This chapter presents a notion of enhancing our daily conversations for increasing opportunities to encounter new ideas and future partners for collaboration. We show two systems. One is AIDE, a system which facilitates online discussion with visualization of the discussion structure and a virtual discussant. The users of AIDE can mutually notice the similarity and difference among their viewpoints against common topics. The other is AgentSalon, a system which facilitates casual face-to-face chatting in the real-space setting such as museums and conference sites. AgentSalon has a big screen showing conversations among animated agents belonging to users. By observing a chat of the agents, the users can effectively obtain appropriate topics: that is, it tempts them to follow the chat.
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Sumi, Y., Mase, K. (2003). Enhancing Daily Conversations. In: Ohsawa, Y., McBurney, P. (eds) Chance Discovery. Advanced Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06230-2_20
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