Scenario What Mary (our character ) says or you can say is in blue italics Your Interactive Home - present day It's morning as you enter the kitchen (your computer is sitting on a table in the corner), Mary senses (microphone) your approach and says good morning, it's 7:30 Monday November 10, 2012. As you busy yourself with making coffee, you look out the window and wonder what the weather will be like today. You ask Mary U.S. weather and the latest weather map is displayed. You are curious about the weather in Australia because your sister lives there, so you say australian weather and the latest weather from that region is displayed. While drinking your coffee, you ask the computer for news headlines from around the world. While listening to your computer read the news out-loud, one of the headlines is interesting so you interrupt Mary by saying the first word or two of the headline and the news story is displayed in our voice web browser. You see an interesting news headline concerning greenpeace founder so you say greenpeace and that article is displayed in your web browser for review. You ask the computer to read that web page to you. You are interested in world events, so you say Kremlin and a current web camera shot of Red Square in Moscow is displayed. You arrive at the office and start the TalkingDesktop program. Mary greets you by saying Good afternoon Mr. Smith , then she presents the internet connection window to you so that you may connect to the internet. In the meantime, Mary has activated the scrolling news headlines so that you can see the latest news from around the world. You see a story about tigers disappearing in Africa and still have that picture of a tiger which you saved for your son last week, so you say tiger to display a tiger picture on your computer. It's time to do some work, so you say word processor and your word processor opens up. To begin you say dictation to activate the dictation mode. After such a busy morning, you decide to leave for lunch. . . . You return from lunch and work for several hours. When you are done for the day, its time to turn-off your computer so you say shutdown computer. Mary asks for confirmation of this request and you say yes , the software closes all applications and windows, then shuts the computer down.		Robot Companion