An overview of the distributed integrated cognition affect and reflection diarc architecture

M Scheutz, T Williams, E Krause, B Oosterveld… - Cognitive …, 2019 - Springer
DIARC has been under development for over 15 years. Different from other cognitive
architectures like SOAR or ACT-R, DIARC is an intrinsically component-based distributed …

[PDF][PDF] Toward Genuine Robot Teammates: Improving Human-Robot Team Performance Using Robot Shared Mental Models.

F Gervits, D Thurston, R Thielstrom, T Fong, Q Pham… - Aamas, 2020 - hrilab.tufts.edu
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 …

It's about time: Turn-entry timing for situated human-robot dialogue

F Gervits, R Thielstrom, A Roque… - Proceedings of the 21th …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a conversation-analytic taxonomy of speech overlap

F Gervits, M Scheutz - … of the Eleventh International Conference on …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
We present a taxonomy for classifying speech overlap in natural language dialogue. The
scheme classifies overlap on the basis of several features, including onset point, local …

Disfluency handling for robot teammates

F Gervits - Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Findings from the Psycholinguistic literature have shown that disfluencies may serve a
coordination function for both the speaker and the listener. Given that disfluencies are …

[PDF][PDF] Merging Representation and Management of Physical and Spoken Action

C Threlkeld, M Scheutz - hrilab.tufts.edu
We propose unifiying representation and management of dialogue actions and physical
actions. This proposal improves planning and reasoning about goals and goal failure. We …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing Social Collaboration in Human-Robot Teams

SS Sebo, B Scassellati - sarahsebo.com
Recent work in psychology has demonstrated that team performance is significantly driven
by factors related to the the social support team members exhibit towards one another …