Gandalf, MIT Media Lab, 1996

Gandalf was Kris Thorisson's 1996 Ph.D. thesis titled "Communicative Humanoids: A Computational Model of Psycho-Social Dialogue Skills", developed in the Advanced Human Interface Group (1992-5) and the Gesture and Narrative Language Group (1995-6) at the M.I.T. Media Lab.

Several people lent a hand in the programming, including Joshua Beers (body tracking), Hannes H. Vilhjalmsson (Gandalf's hand), Erin Panttaja (pitch tracking), and Steven Levis, Roland Paul, Nimrod War- shawsky & Calvin Yuen (Gandalf's face). Gandalf was developed in the Ymir cognitive architecture framework, which later evolved into the Constructionist Design Methodology (Thorisson et al. 2004) which has been used to develop dialogue skills for the Honda ASIMO robot (Ng-Thow-Hing et al. 2008, 2009). -------

Further details:

http://xenia.media.mit.edu/˜kris/ -------

Thórisson, K. R. (1999). A Mind Model for Multimodal Communicative Creatures and Humanoids. International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, 13(4-5): 449-486.
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Thórisson, K. R., H. Benko, A. Arnold, D. Abramov, S. Maskey, A. Vaseekaran (2004). Constructionist Design Methodology for Interactive Intelligences. A.I. Magazine, 25(4): 77-90. Menlo Park, CA: American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
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Ng-Thow-Hing, V., K. R. Thórisson, R. K. Sarvadevabhatla, J. Wormer, T. List (2009). The Cognitive Map architecture for facilitating human-robot interaction in humanoid robots. IEEE Robotics & Automation, March, 16(1):55-66.

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