The paper discusses the view of dialogue systems as communicating agents, and presents three challenges that this view poses for current research on dialogue management: the need to rede ne cooperation and its relation to collaboration, the need to cope with resource-boundedness, and the need to handle social interaction. We present the Constructive Dialogue Model, a new approach to meeting the...

Recently, we proposed a dialogue model for social support. To validate this model, we analyzed 23 real world chat conversations. After some adjustments, the dialogue sequence patterns specified in the model cover 87.4% of the data. Based on this result, we conclude that the dialogue model accurately describes comforting conversations. Next, the model will be incorporated into a comforting ECA.

This paper presents a way to compute relative social status of the individuals involved in Korean dialogue. Every Korean sentence indicates whether honorification occurs in it. The occurrence of honorification in a sentence is constrained by relative social status of the individuals involved in the sentence. By using the intbrmation about social status and the information about sentence-externa...

In this paper, ontology based dialogue strategies are presented in connection with the concept of communicative images. Communicative images are graphical objects integrated with a dialogue interface and linked to an associated knowledge database which stores the semantics of the objects depicted. The relevant pieces of information can be linked to the external knowledge distributed in a social...

Rare disease patients and their families often navigate in unknown territory. Even if medical guidelines for their disease exist, they normally do not mention social and educational matters and the public services in these areas are often inadequate. Because the disease is rare, social workers, teachers and care takers have no knowledge of the consequences and necessary support. Rare Disorders ...

Dialogue in commercial games is largely created by teams of writers and designers who hand-author every line of dialogue and hand-specify the dialogue structure using finite state machines or branching trees. For dialogue heavy games, such as role playing games with significant NPC interactions, or emerging genres such as interactive drama, such hand specification significantly limits the playe...

We describe the dialogue model for the virtual humans developed at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. The dialogue model contains a rich set of information state and dialogue moves to allow a wide range of behaviour in multimodal, multiparty interaction. We extend this model to enable non-team negotiation, using ideas from social science literature...

In this article, we present the web of commitment methodology that allows us to specify the dialogical behavior of agents from the commitments that can be contracted between them and from the links that can exist between those commitments. At first, we present the DIAGAL agent communication language which is based on social commitments and dialogue games that are defined as structures regulatin...

Virtual reality exposure therapy has been proposed as a viable alternative in the treatment of anxiety disorders, including social anxiety disorder. Therapists could benefit from extensive control of anxiety eliciting stimuli during virtual exposure. Two stimuli controls are studied in this study: the social dialogue situation, and the dialogue feedback responses (negative or positive) between ...