Meeting minutes
dirk: Robin paper should help us figure out which kinds of assistants exist
Value Co-creation in smart services: a functional affordances perspective
(presentation will be posted to the mailing list)
dirk: smart personal assistant doesn't need to be personal
… there is not agreeded upon term
… material properties are important, there's a taxonomy in the paper
debbie: not sure how a robot would it into the hardware slot
gerard: how does the sharing of your personal data with a cloud provider fit into this?
dirk: handling of personal data doesn't fit, but that's the only thing I can think of
could add a row for data sharing
dirk: don't share, share encrypted to trusted parties, or share completely
dirk: vectorized the SPA's and clustered them
… reviews the clusters
… five clusters, passive observers, chatbots, virtual anthropomorphic advisors
… cluster 3 is the most common
… 4th cluster is voice facilitators
… can also control objects in a smart home
… cluster 6 is general activity assistants, like Alexa
dirk: the interesting part is the 5 clusters
dirk: what is the diffeence between voice facilitators and general activity assistants
… perhaps adaptabiliyt
… also voice facilitators are bound to a domain
dirk: we should acknowledge that there are different kinds of agents and refer to them in our papers
debbie: we could eliminate some clusters
dirk: chatbots
debbie: cluster 2, 3
gerard: a personal assistant should not be shared with other users
dirk: also in-scope are clusters 4 and 5
debbie: we have to think of more user-friendly names
… maybe cluster 4 and cluster 5 could have the same name
debbie: our standards could apply to several clusters
dirk: we should think about that
debbie: we need to capture the personal/general assistant distinguished
gerard: a personal assistant should not be shared
dirk: two meanings of personal, one belongs to the user, also the personal assistant could adapt but the data could be shared
… personal means that it knows the user
… and it knows how the user acts
dirk: this can cause some confusion
dirk: user-adaptive means the ability to adapt to the user
dirk: data shared outside the device
debbie: they could add the row and recluster
ACTION: dirk to respond to Robin's about the discussion today
debbie: they could also include LLMs