00:23:16 Andrew Kun: Feel free to start with questions here. 00:25:02 Chris: Can virtual agents be working with different people (without them necessarily immediately knowing) in parallel and play a bridging role? For example, to collect questions from patients and passing them on to the doctor. Or getting additional information from the doctor for the nurse? What I have in mind is a “better” version of the operating system from the movie “her”, which is being used by multiple people, but giving each individual a personal experience. 00:28:42 Shadan Sadeghian: aside from the pragmatic qualities that shape agents as assistants, what factors make them a social partner? 00:32:06 Vidya Sundar: Do you see a value or role for virtual agents in social, informal conversations at work? As a health care professional, I re-energize when I can connect with colleagues in the hallway....and when I have unplanned conversations 00:33:20 Diana Tosca: This isn’t a question and not the point of the agents, but I’m wondering how informed consent of privacy/agents would work in a setting where the user may not necessarily understand what’s happening? One hospital example — if a patient is Another example, if a chid is interacting with an agent, does it understand the privacy implications? Is it up to the parents? 00:33:26 Diana Tosca: Oops 00:34:56 Diana Tosca: My small point - how do you communicate to patients who are ill about these agents? Maybe too ill to really grasp what’s happening? 00:35:34 Albrecht's iPad: how good has a virtual agent to be to be good enough? if it behaves wrong in a critical situation 1 in 100 times it is probably not good enough... 00:37:28 Orit Shaer: http://teachlive.org/ 00:37:47 Stephen Elms: https://www.mursion.com/