Approaches for assessing communication in human-autonomy teams

AL Baker, SM Fitzhugh, L Huang, DE Forster… - Human-Intelligent …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Evaluation of team communication can provide critical insights into team dynamics,
cohesion, trust, and performance on joint tasks. Although many communication-based …

[PDF][PDF] Abstract meaning representation for human-robot dialogue

CN Bonial, L Donatelli, J Ervin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - scholarworks.umass.edu
In this research, we begin to tackle the challenge of natural language understanding (NLU)
in the context of the development of a robot dialogue system. We explore the adequacy of …

Scoutbot: A dialogue system for collaborative navigation

SM Lukin, F Gervits, CJ Hayes, A Leuski… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
ScoutBot is a dialogue interface to physical and simulated robots that supports collaborative
exploration of environments. The demonstration will allow users to issue unconstrained …

Laying down the yellow brick road: Development of a wizard-of-oz interface for collecting human-robot dialogue

C Bonial, M Marge, A Foots, F Gervits, CJ Hayes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
We describe the adaptation and refinement of a graphical user interface designed to
facilitate a Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) approach to collecting human-robot dialogue data. The data …

[PDF][PDF] Dialogue structure annotation for multi-floor interaction

D Traum, C Henry, S Lukin, R Artstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
We present an annotation scheme for meso-level dialogue structure, specifically designed
for multi-floor dialogue. The scheme includes a transaction unit that clusters utterances from …

A research platform for multi-robot dialogue with humans

M Marge, S Nogar, CJ Hayes, SM Lukin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a research platform that supports spoken dialogue interaction with
multiple robots. The demonstration showcases our crafted MultiBot testing scenario in which …

A classification-based approach to automating human-robot dialogue

F Gervits, A Leuski, C Bonial, C Gordon… - … Naturalness and Flexibility …, 2021 - Springer
We present a dialogue system based on statistical classification which was used to
automate human-robot dialogue in a collaborative navigation domain. The classifier was …

[PDF][PDF] Dialogue structure parsing on multi-floor dialogue based on multi-task learning

S Kawano, K Yoshino, D Traum… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2021 - sap.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
A multi-floor dialogue consists of multiple sets of dialogue participants, each conversing
within their own floor, but also at least one multicommunicating member who is a participant …

[PDF][PDF] The Niki and Julie Corpus: collaborative multimodal dialogues between humans, robots, and virtual agents

R Artstein, J Boberg, A Gainer, J Gratch… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
Abstract The Niki and Julie corpus contains more than 600 dialogues between human
participants and a human-controlled robot or virtual agent, engaged in a series of …

Wizards in the Middle: An Approach to Comparing Humans and Robots

Z Henkel, KB Henkel, CL Bethel - 2022 31st IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While Wizard-of-Oz (WOz) techniques are frequently used to supplement a machine's
abilities, extending this approach to human entities can increase experimental control in …