To design proactive and autonomous interactive objects, designers deal with the design of the object's behavior. In this paper, we propose a design method, called Personality, to help designers develop interactive objects' behaviors with a focus on aesthetics of interaction; the method focuses on tangible and bodily interaction, and it includes four main steps. The "unguided improvisation" step consists of an initial interplay with the interactive object in order to size up the interaction; a brainstorming step, in which we use stereotypes of personalities to create metaphors, to support the discussion around, and the description of, possible behaviors; the "guided improvisation" step iterates over several improvisation sessions to act out interaction scenarios and behaviors; and the behavior synthesis step, in which we provide a final description of the object's behavior. To illustrate Personality we will describe the sofa-bot case study. We will report a lab study, in which we observed people reaction to the different behaviors of the sofa.

Translation into morphologically rich languages is an important but recalcitrant problem in MT.We present a simple and effective approach that deals with the problem in two phases.First, a discriminative model is learned to predict inflections of target words from rich source-side annotations.Then, this model is used to create additional sentencespecific word-and phrase-level translations that are added to a standard translation model as "synthetic" phrases.Our approach relies on morphological analysis of the target language, but we show that an unsupervised Bayesian model of morphology can successfully be used in place of a supervised analyzer.We report significant improvements in translation quality when translating from English to Russian, Hebrew and Swahili.