TY - JOUR
T1 - Working with troubles and failures in conversation between humans and robots
T2 - workshop report
AU - Förster, Frank
AU - Romeo, Marta
AU - Holthaus, Patrick
AU - Wood, Luke J.
AU - Dondrup, Christian
AU - Fischer, Joel E.
AU - Liza, Farhana Ferdousi
AU - Kaszuba, Sara
AU - Hough, Julian
AU - Nesset, Birthe
AU - Hernández García, Daniel
AU - Kontogiorgos, Dimosthenis
AU - Williams, Jennifer
AU - Özkan, Elif Ecem
AU - Barnard, Pepita
AU - Berumen, Gustavo
AU - Price, Dominic
AU - Cobb, Sue
AU - Wiltschko, Martina
AU - Tisserand, Lucien
AU - Porcheron, Martin
AU - Giuliani, Manuel
AU - Skantze, Gabriel
AU - Healey, Patrick G. T.
AU - Papaioannou, Ioannis
AU - Gkatzia, Dimitra
AU - Albert, Saul
AU - Huang, Guanyu
AU - Maraev, Vladislav
AU - Kapetanios, Epaminondas
N1 - Funding Information:
The workshop, the outcomes of which are described in this paper, was funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Robotics & Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS) Pump Priming programme under the project title “Charting the Limits and Developing Future Directions of Speech Interfaces for Robotics”. DG is supported under the EPSRC projects NLG for low-resource domains (EP/T024917/1) and CiViL (EP/T014598/1). Some of the authors are supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant numbers EP/V00784X/1, EP/X009343/1] including through the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub. One of the authors has been supported by the H2020 EU projects CANOPIES—A Collaborative Paradigm for Human Workers and Multi-Robot Teams in Precision Agriculture Systems, Grant Agreement 101016906. DK is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2002/1 “Science of Intelligence”—project number 390523135.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Förster, Romeo, Holthaus, Wood, Dondrup, Fischer, Liza, Kaszuba, Hough, Nesset, Hernández García, Kontogiorgos, Williams, Özkan, Barnard, Berumen, Price, Cobb, Wiltschko, Tisserand, Porcheron, Giuliani, Skantze, Healey, Papaioannou, Gkatzia, Albert, Huang, Maraev and Kapetanios.
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - communicative failure
KW - dialogue systems
KW - human-robot interaction
KW - multi-modal interaction
KW - repair
KW - speech interfaces
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85179974618&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/frobt.2023.1202306
DO - 10.3389/frobt.2023.1202306
M3 - Article
C2 - 38106544
AN - SCOPUS:85179974618
SN - 2296-9144
VL - 10
JO - Frontiers in Robotics and AI
JF - Frontiers in Robotics and AI
M1 - 1202306
ER -