This demonstration showcases TRIPS, The Rochester Interactive Planning System, an intelligent, collaborative, conversational planning assistant. TRIPS collaborates with the user using both spoken dialogue and graphical displays to solve problems in a transportation logistics domain. In our demonstrations, users are encouraged to sit down and try the system, with only rudimentary guidance from u...

This paper presents a framework for dynamic workflow creation and execution developed as part of ARGUGRID, a collaborative project that seeks to provide a new model for programming the Grid at a semantic, knowledge-based level of abstraction through the use of argumentative agent technology. In this framework, workflow selection is coordinated by agent interactions based upon a dialogue game th...

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This paper presents a summary analysis of observed case studies within two design network groups. Designers with different backgrounds created some artefacts which permitted to argument that design can be understood as a dialogue approach. The interaction among designers mediated by the artefact allowed to find cultural markers and a collaborative circle especially significant within the design...

We present some lessons we have learned from using software infrastructure to support coursework in natural language dialogue and embodied conversational agents. We have a new appreciation for the differences between coursework and research infrastructure—supporting teaching may be harder, because students require a broader spectrum of implementation, a faster learning curve and the ability to ...

Classroom discussion is an important element in many forms of online collaborative learning. We here discuss the design of systems to support tutors in the tasks of moderating such discussions and evaluating the contributions of participants. We describe the architecture of a system that will use techniques of conversation analysis and dialogue game theory to provide the instructor with informa...

The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment, and natural resources management. Through the Internet, we report on international negotiations and share knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global ...

The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment, and natural resources management. Through the Internet, we report on international negotiations and share knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global ...

Successful dialogue is based on collaborative efforts of the interactants to ensure mutual understanding. This paper presents work towards making conversational agents ‘attentive speakers’ that continuously attend to the communicative feedback given by their interlocutors and adapt their ongoing and subsequent communicative behaviour to their needs. A comprehensive conceptual and architectural ...

The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment, and natural resources management. Through the Internet, we report on international negotiations and share knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global ...