Council of Coaches

Project on Virtual Coaching for Healthy Ageing. This project receives funding from the @EU_H2020 Research & Innovation Programme.

[The IVA Conference @ACM_IVA]

#IVA2022 is here and this year we are traveling to Portugal! 🇵🇹

It will be held at the University of Algarve in Faro, between September 6th to the 9th. Visit our website to know more.

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

All the best of luck to Reshma, who's now defending her important work on group behaviour and multi-party interaction in front of a PhD-committee!

[Agents United @AgentsUnited_]

Last week, the Agents United Platform was presented at the @ACM_IVA conference in a live presentation and during the poster session. Curious? Our paper can be found at https://t.co/Wx4si4xuys

[INFINITECH-H2020 @Infinitech_EU]

.@innovSprint and @RRDNL officially announced their collaboration in operating and maintaining the @WOOLPlatform, an #opensource (MIT Licensed) software platform for authoring and executing scripted dialogues between virtual agents and users !🧶🤝
https://t.co/0MFy3iwaWF

[Roessingh R&D (inactive) @RRDNL]

We are proud to announce a new partnership between Roessingh Research and Development, the company that started the development of WOOL, and Innovation Sprint, a long-term strategic partner of RRD and consortium member in Council of Coaches. Read more: https://t.co/Ah8TWC2naN

[Tessa Beinema @TessaBeinema]

Our study on tailoring coaching strategies is now published in Computers in Human Behavior!

It was performed in the context of @Council_Coaches together with @harmopdenakker, @Lexvanvelsen and @HermieHer.

--> Read it (and its highlights) here:
https://t.co/gXj10keBjL

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

Many of our project's findings were based on a Corpus of simulated health consultations that was created by our consortium, lead by @marksnaith and colleagues. The article describing this Corpus has been published now: https://t.co/JBJznos1HA

[Agents United @AgentsUnited_]

With the added expertise and skills of these two research groups, we continue our work on creating beyond state-of-the-art Embodied Conversational Agent systems. (4/4)

[Agents United @AgentsUnited_]

@Macquarie_Uni’s Virtual Reality and Interactive Systems Group will contribute to the platform’s development with their expertise on Conversational Agents. (3/4)

[Agents United @AgentsUnited_]

@RobertGordonUni’s School of Computing (@ComputingRGU) Artificial Intelligence Research Group will join @dundeeuni’s @ARG_tech in the development of the platform’s dialogue and argumentation component. (2/4)

[Agents United @AgentsUnited_]

A new year, and new alliance members! We are happy to announce that two research groups with expertise in dialogue systems and agent interaction have joined the Agents United Alliance. (1/4)

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

Congratulations to Laura Bosdriesz who graduated last week on implementing Speech Input and Text-to-Speech in the @WOOLPlatform-based Council of Coaches demonstrator!

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

The Council of Coaches project may be over, but our work on creating beyond state-of-the-art Embodied Conversational Agent systems is not! Follow @AgentsUnited_ to stay in the loop!

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

We have released a full length demonstration video of the Agents United Platform (https://t.co/eSJg8ZFlV5) on our YouTube channel. Check out the link below to see what this fully Open Source virtual agent platform can do! https://t.co/SsPjWeDgpC

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

And the scientific outcome keeps coming... #openscience

[Roessingh R&D (inactive) @RRDNL]

How do patients with Diabetes Type 2 search for information, use it, or consciously neglect it? Our researcher Marijke Broekhuis (@MarijkeCB) performed a diary study (in the @Council_Coaches project) and found out:

https://t.co/0W7ZwSWjTo

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

The February 2020 issue of the @UTwente TechMed Magazine features @harmopdenakker, the project's technical coordinator who presented the project's results at the annual TechMed event recently. Read the magazine online, here: https://t.co/GaoaSE0kbi

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

And you’ve helped shape the Council of Coaches project! Looking forward to continuing our collaboration, wherever your “home” may be!

[ARG-tech @ARG_tech]

Today, we say farewell to @marksnaith as he leaves to take up a lecturer position @ComputingRGU. Mark, you helped shape ARG-tech in its formative years & we look forward to continued collaboration with you as you embark on the next stage of your career. Good luck, we'll miss you.

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

Yesterday, the Council of Coaches team presented the final outcomes of the project to the external experts and the @EU_Commission. We are extremely proud of everything that was achieved over the past 3 years. Thanks to everyone for following our project! To be continued...

[Council of Coaches @Council_Coaches]

Today the @Council_Coaches #FinalReview is taking place. After 3 years of research, development, and hard work officially the project is presented to our Project Officer and the @EU_H2020 committee.

[WTC Twente @WTCTwente]

Thank you ⁦@LouisZantema⁩ #Reducept and ⁦@harmopdenakker⁩ ⁦@RRDNL⁩ ⁦@Council_Coaches⁩ for your contribution to our #TechMedEvent. ⁦@MoniqueTabak_⁩ ⁦@UTwente⁩ https://t.co/7pqczULTaE