In conversation,a person sometimeshasto refer to anobjectthat is not previously known to the other participant. We present a planbased model of how agents collaborate on reference...
Building conversation protocols has traditionally been an art more than a science, as their construction is often guided by designers’ intuition rather than by a principled appro...
Exploring the relationship between social presence, conversational expressiveness, and robot acceptance, we set up an experiment with a robot in an eldercare institution, comparing...
We present the results of an experiment investigating the effects of a talking head's gaze behavior on the user's quality assessment of the interface. We compared a vers...
Ivo van Es, Dirk Heylen, Betsy van Dijk, Anton Nij...
This paper deals with understanding referring expressions involving perceptual grouping. The ability to use referring expressions is important for conversational agents aimed at r...