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CHAPTER 66
The Individual Adaption
Module (iAM): A
Framework for
Individualization and
Calibration of Companion
Technologies
Steffen Walter, Kerstin Limbrecht, Stephen Crawcour, Vladimir Hrabal,
Harald Traue
University of Ulm
Ulm, Germany
Steffen.Walter@uni-ulm.de
Keywords:
companion system, individual specificity, feature selection,
individual Adaption Module (iAM)
ABSTRACT
The authors of the present study argue for the notion that assistant systems of the
future will become “companion systems”, i.e., systems that adapt to individual-
specificity of the user (i.e., to one's emotion patterns, personality, preferences, etc.).
Due to ...