This article gives an overview of our symbiotic human-robot interaction project, which aims
at an autonomous android who behaves and interacts just like a human. A conversational …

The listener's backchannel has the important function of encouraging a current speaker to
hold their turn and continue to speak, which enables smooth conversation. The listener …

We address prediction of turn-taking considering related behaviors such as backchannels
and fillers. Backchannels are used by the listeners to acknowledge that the current speaker …

In human-human dialogue, especially in attentive listening such as counseling,
backchannels are important not only for smooth communication but also for establishing …

Backchannel responses like “uh-huh”,“yeah”,“right” are used by the listener in a social
dialog as a way to provide feedback to the speaker. In the context of human-computer …

Speech overlaps, undesired collisions of utterances between systems and users, harm
smooth communication and degrade the usability of systems. We propose a method to …

Backchannels play an important role in smooth dialogue, especially attentive listening. In
this paper, we analyze the morphological patterns (category) of backchannels, and how …

Backchannels play an important role in spoken dialogue, especially in attentive listening
such as counseling. Appropriately coordinated backchannels help establish rapport in that …

We propose a non-humanlike spoken dialogue design, which consists of two elements: non-
humanlike turn-taking and non-humanlike acknowledgment. Two experimental studies are …

In human-human dialogue, especially in attentive listening such as counseling,
backchannels play an important role. Appropriately coordinated backchannels will not only …