RoomReader: A Multimodal Corpus of Online Multiparty Conversational Interactions

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Justine Reverdy, Sam O’Connor Russell, Louise Duquenne, Diego Garaialde, Benjamin R. Cowan, Naomi Harte

The corpus was developed within the wider RoomReader Project to explore multimodal cues of conversational engagement and behavioural aspects of collaborative interaction in online environments.

Working with Trouble and Failures in Conversation between Humans and Robots (WTF 2023) & Is CUI Design Ready Yet?

no code implementations • 4 Sep 2023 • Frank Förster, Marta Romeo, Patrick Holthaus, Maria Jose Galvez Trigo, Joel E. Fischer, Birthe Nesset, Christian Dondrup, Christine Murad, Cosmin Munteanu, Benjamin R. Cowan, Leigh Clark, Martin Porcheron, Heloisa Candello, Raina Langevin

Workshop website: https://sites. google. com/view/wtf2023/overview Is CUI Design Ready Yet?

An Empirical Study of Topic Transition in Dialogue

no code implementations • COLING (CODI, CRAC) 2022 • Mayank Soni, Brendan Spillane, Emer Gilmartin, Christian Saam, Benjamin R. Cowan, Vincent Wade

Transitioning between topics is a natural component of human-human dialog.

Open-Domain Dialog

See what I'm saying? Comparing Intelligent Personal Assistant use for Native and Non-Native Language Speakers

no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Yunhan Wu, Daniel Rough, Anna Bleakley, Justin Edwards, Orla Cooney, Philip R. Doyle, Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan

Limited linguistic coverage for Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) means that many interact in a non-native language.

Mental Workload and Language Production in Non-Native Speaker IPA Interaction

no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Yunhan Wu, Justin Edwards, Orla Cooney, Anna Bleakley, Philip R. Doyle, Leigh Clark, Daniel Rough, Benjamin R. Cowan

We found significantly higher mental workload for L2 speakers during IPA interactions.

What Makes a Good Conversation? Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents

no code implementations • 19 Jan 2019 • Leigh Clark, Nadia Pantidi, Orla Cooney, Philip Doyle, Diego Garaialde, Justin Edwards, Brendan Spillane, Christine Murad, Cosmin Munteanu, Vincent Wade, Benjamin R. Cowan

People fundamentally questioned the need for bond and common ground in agent communication, shifting to more utilitarian definitions of conversational qualities.

Human-Computer Interaction

Annotation of greeting, introduction, and leavetaking in dialogues

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Emer Gilmartin, Brendan Spillane, Maria O{'}Reilly, Christian Saam, Ketong Su, Benjamin R. Cowan, Killian Levacher, Arturo Calvo Devesa, Lodana Cerrato, Nick Campbell, Vincent Wade