Welcome to the COMPANIONS Project Evaluation Corpus. The COMPANIONS project developed virtual Companions for conversation to change the way people think about the relationships of people to computers and the Internet. This work resulted in a system that goes beyond traditional task-based interaction into the realm of social interaction.
The project consisted of a consortium of 14 partners from across Europe and the US. The European Commission is funding the project as part of its 6th Research Framework, specifically as part of its focus on Information Society Technologies. It ran from November 2006 to November 2010.
The corpus consists of data from the Project’s final evaluation in October 2010 and contains over 80 interactions between users and the Project’s prototype “How Was Your Day” Companion. The data available includes HD video of the user, a screen-cast of the prototype, GSR data (Q™ file format) and XML transcripts of the conversation. Watch an example video here. The corpus is freely available to researchers interested in HCI, NLP, affective computing and similar fields.