Special Issue on Companion Technologies. Biundo, S., Höller, D., & Bercher, P. Künstliche Intelligenz, 30(1):5–9, 2016. This is the editorial of our Special Issue on Companion Technologies, in which we were the guest editors
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Dear reader, at present, we observe a rapid growth in the development of increasingly complex ``intelligent systems'' that serve users throughout all areas of their daily lives. They range from classical technical systems such as household appliances, cars, or consumer electronics through mobile apps and services to advanced service robots in various fields of application. While many of the rather conventional systems already provide multiple modalities to interact with, the most advanced are even equipped with cognitive abilities such as perception, cognition, and reasoning. However, the use of such complex technical systems and in particular the actual exploitation of their rich functionality remain challenging and quite often lead to users' cognitive overload and frustration. Companion Technologies bridge the gap between the extensive functionality of technical systems and human users' individual requirements and needs. They enable the construction of really smart – adaptive, flexible, and cooperative – technical systems by applying and fusing techniques from different areas of research. In our special issue we present interesting pieces of work – quite a number of new technical contributions, ongoing and completed research projects, several dissertation abstracts, as well as an interview – that are related to, or even fundamental for, Companion-Technology. In the community part of this issue, there is also a conference report on the first International Symposium on Companion-Technology

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