Multiparty Dialogue Workshop

Overview

Possible Disscussion Topics

• Aspects of interaction:
  -speaker/addressee ID
  -turn-taking & initiative
  -negotiation
  -maintenance of social relationships

• How does multi-party interaction contrast with two-party interaction?
  • Is two-party a degenerate form of multi-party?
  • Is multi-party fundamentally a set of two-party interactions (one for each pair in the group)?
  • Which problems occur only in a multi-party situation or have radically different accounts than for a two-party interaction?
  • How do we distinguish overlaps vs parallel conversations or threads?
• How is interaction affected by the nature of participants?
  - all artificial agents
  - one human, more than one agent
  - more than one human, one agent
  - multiple humans, multiple agents
  - multiple humans

• How is interaction affected by the modality of communication?
  - Face to face to face
  - radio
  - chat
  - mixed modalities
  - synchronous vs asynchronous (semi-synchronous)

• How does size of group affect interaction?
  -How many discrete conditions are there ? (e.g., 1|2|small group|large group vs differentiation of 3 vs 4 vs 5)

• How does the activity affect the nature of interaction ?
  - Chat vs Meetings vs task performance
  - fixed participant roles vs loose (interchangable) vs no defined roles

• What tools are available for data collection and analysis?
  - annotated corpora
  - capture systems
  - annotation schemes
  - annotation tools

• What applications are there for theories of multiparty interaction?
  - design of groupware
  - distance communication
  - training systems
  - meeting aids