Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
7 results found in Conversational Agent.
- AI Companion (Chatbot Companion, AI Companionship)
- An AI companion is an artificial-intelligence system - typically a text, voice or avatar-based chatbot built on a large language model - explicitly designed to offer users a sense of social presence, …
- Clarifying Question (Clarifying Questions, Counter-Question)
- A clarifying question is a follow-up query posed by a system or interlocutor to resolve ambiguity, fill missing context, or confirm intent before acting on a user's request. In conversational interfac…
- Griefbot (Deadbot)
- A griefbot (sometimes 'deadbot') is an AI chatbot trained on the written, voice or video communications of a deceased person, intended to let bereaved loved ones continue a simulated dialogue with the…
- Proactive Prompt (Proactive Cue)
- In voice-interface and conversational-agent design, a system-initiated utterance or visual cue that surfaces a suggestion, reminder, or next step without the user first asking. Examples include sugges…
- Repair Mechanism (Conversational Repair)
- In conversational interface design, a feature that helps the user and the system recover from misrecognition, ambiguity, or misunderstanding — for example, clarification prompts ("Did you mean the [X]…
- Replika
- Replika is a commercial AI companion app, launched by Luka Inc. in 2017, that offers users a customisable digital avatar designed to 'develop its own personality' through conversational interaction. U…
- Supportive Empathy
- A therapeutic conversational stance in which a listener responds to another person's feelings with affirmation, validation, and gentle encouragement rather than problem-solving or interpretation. In m…