If user interfaces should be made human-like vs. tool-like has been debated in the HCI field, and this debate affects the development of multimodal interfaces. However, little emp...
We discuss current approaches to the development of natural language dialogue systems, and claim that they do not sufficiently consider the unique qualities of man-machine intera...
Emerging AI techniques will make possible new intelligent help features, such as ‘active help’ (interrupting the user when appropriate) and ‘back channel’ communication (a...
The aim of our research is to create a system whereby human members of a team can collaborate in a natural way with robots. In this paper we describe a Wizard of Oz (WOZ) study co...
Scott Green, Scott Richardson, Randy Stiles, Mark ...
We address two problems in the field of automatic optimization of dialogue strategies: learning effective dialogue strategies when no initial data or system exists, and evaluating...