Cloud-based Wizard of Oz as a service

Abstract

The paper deals with theoretical and experimental issues of an idea towards a cloud-based Wizard of Oz in the Microsoft Azure cloud environment. Wizard of Oz is a common tool in social robotics and especially in specific applications like mental illness treatment, ambient assisted living, and many others. The final goal is to create a system with the ability to learn and replace a human wizard by an intelligent software agent, which simulates the behavior of the human.