As social robots see increasing deployment within the general public, improving the
interaction with those robots is essential. Spoken language offers an intuitive interface for …

Robots are uniquely suited to performing dull, dirty, or dangerous tasks that can complement
and enhance the work that humans do. As a result, they are increasingly needed to serve as …

How much should you talk, pause, or interrupt your counterpart in negotiations? The present
research zooms out on the macrostructure of negotiation conversations to examine how …

In this paper, we propose a multimodal dialogue system designed to elicit spontaneous
speech samples from second language learners for reliable oral proficiency assessment …

We address turn-taking prediction in which spoken dialogue systems predict when to take
the conversational floor. In natural conversations, many turn-taking decisions are arbitrary …

This USER Workshop was convened with the goal of defining future research directions for
the burgeoning intelligent agent research community and to communicate them to the …

Turn-entry timing is an important requirement for conversation, and one that spoken
dialogue systems largely fail at. In this paper, we introduce a computational framework …

The remote communication within intimate groups can be challenging due to lack of or
excessive of non-verbal messages, which lack physicality. In this paper, we introduce …

Interruptions, a fundamental component of human communication, can enhance the
dynamism and effectiveness of conversations, but only when effectively managed by all …

With current state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, it is not possible to
transcribe overlapping speech audio streams separately. Consequently, when these ASR …