This paper describes a computational approach to robust human-computer interaction. The approach relies on an explicit, declarative representation of the content and structure of the interaction that a computer system builds over the course of the interaction. In this paper, we will show how this representation allows the system to recognize and repair misunderstandings between the human and th...

service manager starts and controls diierent services for networked clients; the block diagram shows two out of a series of clients. The continuous-media-data are processed by decentralized service modules 1 to n. The right-hand block of g. 7 demonstrates a typical conference application. 4 Outlook Coming back to the development goals mentioned in the beginning, the future scenario may be: { Pe...

Future robots are expected to communicate with humans using natural language. The naïve human user will expect a robot to easily understand what he/she is meaning by instructions concerning robot's tasks. This implies that the robot will need to have a means of grounding, in its own sensors, the natural language terms and constructions used by the human user. This paper presents an approach to ...

Cultural transmission is essentially the idea that beliefs and values are passed from generation to generation. The question I would like to address in this paper is how does this happen? In particular, what is the mechanism? In the absence of a deep understanding of the process by which people come to have similar ideas, a variety of metaphors have been used. The purpose of this paper is to ou...

Communication includes all the ways that human beings can influence others. This involves not only speaking or writing, but also all human behavior in various ways, so there are two types of communicational signs that human beings use: verbal and non-verbal signs. In communication science, special attention has been paid to how non-verbal signs influence message transmission. The research has s...

Effective communication between teammates is critical to the success of collaboration, including human-robot collaboration. For enabling human robot communication, several modalities are actively being researched — such as, text, speech, visual signals, and legible motion. The design of these modalities is necessary to achieve effective communication; however, it is not sufficient. Communicatio...