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Special Topic: Human Robot Dialogue Interaction

Required Readings (for all students)
  1. Reimann, M. M., Kunneman, F. A., Oertel, C., & Hindriks, K. V. (2024). A survey on dialogue management in human-robot interaction. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 13(2), 1-22.
  2. Marge, Matthew and Espy-Wilson, Carol and Ward, Nigel G. and Alwan, Abeer and Artzi, Yoav and Bansal, Mohit and Blankenship, Gil and Chai, Joyce and Daume, Hal and Dey, Debadeepta and Harper, Mary and Howard, Thomas and Kennington, Casey and Kruijff-Korbayova, Ivana and Manocha, Dinesh and Matuszek, Cynthia and Mead, Ross and Mooney, Raymond and Moore, Roger K. and Ostendorf, Mari and Pon-Barry, Heather and Rudnicky, Alexander I. and Scheutz, Matthias and Amant, Robert St. and Sun, Tong and Tellex, Stefanie and Traum, David and Yu, Zhou. Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research. Computer Speech & Language. 71
Required Readings (for presenter(s) and rapporteur(s))

  1. Lemon, Oliver, Anne Bracy, Alexander Gruenstein, and Stanley Peters. The WITAS multi-modal dialogue system I. In Proc. Eurospeech 2001, pp. 1559-1562. 2001.
  2. Where to look: a study of human-robot engagement Candace L. Sidner, Cory D. Kidd, Christopher Lee, Neal Lesh, in Proc. of IUI 2004
  3. Vladimir A. Kulyukin On natural language dialogue with assistive robots HRI '06 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction Pages 164 - 171, 2006
  4. Fasola, Juan, and Maja J. Matarić. A socially assistive robot exercise coach for the elderly. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction 2.2 (2013): 3-32.
  5. Chai, Joyce Y., Rui Fang, Changsong Liu, and Lanbo She. Collaborative Language Grounding Toward Situated Human-Robot Dialogue. AI Magazine 37, no. 4 (2016).
  6. Thomason, Jesse, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Jivko Sinapov, Nick Walker, Yuqian Jiang, Harel Yedidsion, Justin Hart, Peter Stone, and Raymond J. Mooney. Improving grounded natural language understanding through human-robot dialog. In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 6934-6941. IEEE, 2019.
  7. Minato, T., Higashinaka, R., Sakai, K., Funayama, T., Nishizaki, H., & Naga, T. (2024). Overview of dialogue robot competition 2023. arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03547.
  8. Yu Liu, Gelareh Mohammadi, Yang Song, and Wafa Johal. 2021. Speech-based Gesture Generation for Robots and Embodied Agents: A Scoping Review. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 31–38. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484167

Other Readings
  1. Situated Reference in a Hybrid Human-Robot Interaction System Manuel Giuliani, Mary Ellen Foster, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, and Alois Knoll. In Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010) Trim, Ireland, July 2010.
  2. Robots That Learn to Communicate: A Developmental Approach to Personally and Physically Situated Human-Robot Conversations N. Iwahashi, K. Sugiura, R. Taguchi, T. Nagai, and T. Taniguchi, In Proc. The 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialog with Robots, November 11-13, 2010, Arlington, Virginia, USA, pp. 38-43.
  3. Towards Sociable Robots Cynthia Breazeal, in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2002.
  4. Skantze, Gabriel, Anna Hjalmarsson, and Catharine Oertel. Turn-taking, feedback and joint attention in situated human–robot interaction. Speech Communication 65 (2014): 50-66.
  5. Belpaeme, T., Baxter, P., Read, R., Wood, R., Cuayáhuitl, H., Kiefer, B., Racioppa, S., Kruijff-Korbayová, I., Athanasopoulos, G., Enescu, V. and Looije, R., 2013. Multimodal child-robot interaction: Building social bonds. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 1(2), pp.33-53.