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- Förster, Frank, et al.
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Working with troubles and failures in conversation between humans and robots: workshop report
- 2023
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Robotics and AI. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 2296-9144. ; 10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper summarizes the structure and findings from the first Workshop on Troubles and Failures in Conversations between Humans and Robots. The workshop was organized to bring together a small, interdisciplinary group of researchers working on miscommunication from two complementary perspectives. One group of technology-oriented researchers was made up of roboticists, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) researchers and dialogue system experts. The second group involved experts from conversation analysis, cognitive science, and linguistics. Uniting both groups of researchers is the belief that communication failures between humans and machines need to be taken seriously and that a systematic analysis of such failures may open fruitful avenues in research beyond current practices to improve such systems, including both speech-centric and multimodal interfaces. This workshop represents a starting point for this endeavour. The aim of the workshop was threefold: Firstly, to establish an interdisciplinary network of researchers that share a common interest in investigating communicative failures with a particular view towards robotic speech interfaces; secondly, to gain a partial overview of the “failure landscape” as experienced by roboticists and HRI researchers; and thirdly, to determine the potential for creating a robotic benchmark scenario for testing future speech interfaces with respect to the identified failures. The present article summarizes both the “failure landscape” surveyed during the workshop as well as the outcomes of the attempt to define a benchmark scenario.
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- Gregoromichelaki, Eleni, et al.
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Completability vs (In)completeness
- 2020
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Ingår i: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0374-0463 .- 1949-0763. ; 52:2, s. 260-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2020 The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. In everyday conversation, no notion of “complete sentence” is required for syntactic licensing. However, so-called “fragmentary”, “incomplete”, and abandoned utterances are problematic for standard formalisms. When contextualised, such data show that (a) non-sentential utterances are adequate to underpin agent coordination, while (b) all linguistic dependencies can be systematically distributed across participants and turns. Standard models have problems accounting for such data because their notions of ‘constituency’ and ‘syntactic domain’ are independent of performance considerations. Concomitantly, we argue that no notion of “full proposition” or encoded speech act is necessary for successful interaction: strings, contents, and joint actions emerge in conversation without any single participant having envisaged in advance the outcome of their own or their interlocutors’ actions. Nonetheless, morphosyntactic and semantic licensing mechanisms need to apply incrementally and subsententially. We argue that, while a representational level of abstract syntax, divorced from conceptual structure and physical action, impedes natural accounts of subsentential coordination phenomena, a view of grammar as a “skill” employing domain-general mechanisms, rather than fixed form-meaning mappings, is needed instead. We provide a sketch of a predictive and incremental architecture (Dynamic Syntax) within which underspecification and time-relative update of meanings and utterances constitute the sole concept of “syntax”.
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- Healey, Patrick G. T., et al.
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When Words Fail: Collaborative Gestures During Clarification Dialogues
- 2015
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Ingår i: Turn-Taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction. Papers from the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposium, March 23–25 2015, Palo Alto, USA. - 9781577357117 ; , s. 23-29
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on co-speech gestures has primarily focussed on speakers. However, in conversation non-speaking addressees can also gesture. Often this is to provide concurrent feedback such as backchannels but sometimes it involves gestures that relate to the specific content of the speaker's turn. We hypothesise that non-speakers should contribute most actively during clarification sequences i.e. at the moments when mutual-understanding is threatened. We test this hypothesis using a corpus of story-telling dialogues, captured using video and motion capture. The results show that during clarification sequences speaker and non-speaker behaviours tend to merge. Non-speakers in particular move their hands faster and produce more than twice as many content-specific specific gestures in overlap with speaker turns. These results underline the collaborative nature of conversation, the strategic importance of non-verbal resources for sustaining mutual-understanding and the critical role of clarification and repair in successful communication.
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- Lavelle, Mary, et al.
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Are we having a laugh? Conversational laughter in schizophrenia
- 2018
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Workshop on Dialogue and Perception, Gothenburg, 14–15 June 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Social exclusion and social dysfunction are persistent and debilitating aspects of schizophrenia. The interactional impact of patients’ social deficits during actual dialogue is poorly understood. Through analysis of a corpus of patients’ triadic interactions we explored laughter as a marker of discomfort or coalition in patients’ interactions. Patient interactions did not differ from controls in terms of laughter production. However, patients who were more symptomatic laughed less frequently, while their partners showed a trend for displaying more shared laughter, potentially indicating coalition formation.
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- Lavelle, Mary, et al.
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Token Gestures: Self-repair and Gesture in Schizophrenia
- 2015
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Ingår i: Language in context: An ecological guide to embodied language. Institute for Multimodal Communication, 10-11 January 2015, London, UK.
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- Lavia, Lisa, et al.
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Non-participant observation methods for soundscape design and urban planning
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Ingår i: Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design / Aletta, Francesco, and Jieling Xiao (eds.). - Hershey, PA : IGI Global. - 9781522536376
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- More accurate non-participatory parameters and psychoacoustics to assess human perceptual responses to the acoustic environment are critical to inform effective urban sound planning and applied soundscape practice. Non-participatory observation methods are widely used by experts to capture animal behavior. In 2012, Lavia and Witchel applied these principles and methodologies for the first time to capturing and assessing human behavior “in the wild” to changes to the acoustic environment using added sound and music interventions in a clubbing district. Subsequent work was conducted with Aletta and Kang and Healey, Howes, Steffens, and Fiebig to begin characterizing the acoustic environment and human responses to align the perceptual and physical findings. Here, the authors report on new work and analysis and propose a preliminary predictive agile applied soundscape framework using non-participatory observation methods and psychoacoustics to be used with environmental assessment practice and evolving urban soundscape planning methods by researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.
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- Purver, Matthew, et al.
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Split Utterances in Dialogue: A Corpus Study
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2009 Conference). - London, UK : Association for Computational Linguistics. - 9781932432640 ; , s. 262-271
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