REFERRING EXPRESSION GENERATION TOWARDS MEDIATING SHARED PERCEPTUAL BASIS IN SITUATED DIALOGUE By Rui Fang Situated human-robot dialogue has received increasing attention in recent years. In situated dialogue, robots/artificial agents and their human partners are co-present in a shared physical world. Robots need to automatically perceive and make inference of the shared environment. Due to its...

Intelligent tutoring systems have been successful at increasing student mathematics learning, but may be further improved with the addition of collaborative activities. We have extended the Cognitive Tutor Algebra, a successful intelligent tutoring system for individual learning, with a reciprocal peer tutoring activity designed to increase conceptual learning. While using our peer tutoring env...

We present an ongoing project building a multimodal dialogue system for a music player supporting natural, flexible interaction and collaborative behavior. Since the system functionalities include searching a big MP3 database, multimodal output is needed.

to building intelligent systems that can collaborate naturally and effectively with people. But true collaborative behavior requires an agent to possess a number of capabilities, including reasoning, communication, planning, execution, and learning. We describe an integrated approach to the design and implementation of a collaborative problem-solving assistant based on a formal theory of joint ...

Throughout this congress we have heard many moving testimonies. On Thursday the stories highlighted the presence of Jesus among the peoples of Asia, especially among the poor and marginalised. On Friday stories witnessed to Jesus amidst the great religions of Asia. Today testimonies have focused upon the cultures of Asia. In day-to-day life we do not neatly separate these three aspects. As the ...

Collaborative natural dialogue offers a powerful medium for interaction between humans and intelligent autonomous agents (Allen et al. 2001). This is particularly the case for complex systems operating in dynamic, real-time environments, containing multiple concurrent activities and events which may succeed, fail, become cancelled or revised, or otherwise warrant discussion. Human dialogue in s...

This paper reports on our research on developing the ability for robots to engage with humans in a collaborative conversation. Engagement is the process by which two (or more) participants establish, maintain and end their perceived connection during interactions they jointly undertake. The paper reports on the architecture for humanrobot collaborative conversation with engagement, and the sign...

Within the landscape of educational data, textual natural language is an increasingly vast source of learning-centered interactions. In natural language dialogue, student contributions hold important information about knowledge and goals. Automatically modeling the dialogue act of these student utterances is crucial for scaling natural language understanding of educational dialogues. Automatic ...

The RoboHelper project has the goal of developing assistive robots for the elderly. One crucial component of such a robot is a multimodal dialogue architecture, since collaborative task-oriented human-human dialogue is inherently multimodal. In this paper, we focus on a specific type of interaction, Haptic-Ostensive (H-O) actions, that are pervasive in collaborative dialogue. H-O actions manipu...

The proposed paper aims to model the dialogue that occurs during a computer-mediated music composition process between pupils in primary school within a collaborative framework. The different types of talk when children compose working in pairs are explored and modeled. Experimental results from a case study from a primary school in Greece reveal significant changes in children’s collaborative ...