Metalogue

Tony Houghton is Visiting Professor at the University of Essex Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Department. His main work has been the Human Factors, system integration and testing on the METALOGUE “Multi-perspective Multimodal Dialogue: dialogue system with meta-cognitive abilities” . The potential is huge, especially supporting collaborative problem solving and also well-being in helping young (and old) learners develop empathy and understanding of others and themselves, in particular Metacognition. Metacognition examples are planning how to approach a learning task, using appropriate skills and strategies to solve a problem, monitoring one's own comprehension of text, self-assessing and self-correcting in response to the self-assessment, evaluating progress toward the completion of a task (LINKS).

This PREZI describes the Metalogue system from a user perspective - beginning with: What IS Metalogue?

It then aims to illustrate the importance and opportunities of Metacognition, which is at the heart of Metalogue.

We then delve 'under the bonnet' to look at the complex mix of commercial and research systems integration and logic - which is kept hidden from the user.

We then take a "User Journey", and view two Metalogue user sessions together with "in-action" and "about-action" feedback tools.

We finally answer the two key questions:

Did the system work?

What did users think?

We believe METALOGUE gives us a next level of:

- cost-effective training for collaboration in industry and commerce...to solve problems and work with people

- collaborative two-way dialogue with customers to sell, solve problems and handle stress

- supporting collaborative problem learning and also well-being in helping young (and old) learners develop empathy and understanding of others and themselves, in particular Metacognition.

For further information see:

http://www.metalogue.eu/