Too narrow, the productivity-oriented vision guiding ubiquitous computing should be replaced or enriched with humanistic aspects. We discuss the role of Maslow's hierarchy of...
This paper identifies several issues in multimodal dialogues between a companion robot and a human user. Specifically, these issues pertain to the synchronization of multimodal ...
Nieske L. Vergunst, Bas R. Steunebrink, Mehdi Dast...
Abstract. Autonomous agents operating in complex dynamic environments need the ability to integrate robust plan execution with higher level reasoning. This paper describes work to ...
Simon Parsons, Ola Pettersson, Alessandro Saffiott...
When we start to engage machines in conversation, what language will it be? While natural language is our preferred means of communication, natural language processing is by no mea...
We will demonstrate a spoken dialogue interface to a Geologist’s Field Assistant that is being developed as part of NASA’s Mobile Agents project. The assistant consists of a r...