TR2003-063

The Role of Dialog in Human Robot Interaction
Date:June 2003
Author: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.

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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