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The Role of Dialog in Human Robot Interaction

Date:
June 2003

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Authors: Candace L. Sidner, Christopher Lee and Neal Lesh

Where Published: First International Workshop on Language Understanding and Agents for Real World Interaction, Hokkaido University, July 2003.

Abstract: This paper reports on our research on developing the abil-ity 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 per-ceived connection during interactions they jointly under-take. The paper reports on the architecture for human-robot collaborative conversation with engagement, and the significance of the dialogue model in that architecture for decisions about engagement during the interaction.

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