Abstract
The focus on one-to-one speak/wait conversational interaction with artificial system is partly misguided and partly cynical. Misguided because it pre-supposes that our relationship with such a system should be one-to-one and that human-like turn taking is never required. Cynical because we avoid the difficult challenge of building complex systems with a problematic route for publication. Whereas vision systems are regularly used in social robots and virtual agents to detect multiple dialogue partners and aid diarization, speech analysis and human-like turn-taking has lagged far behind. In this positional paper we make the case for focusing on human-like turn taking and multi-party interaction, discuss why realtime speech analysis and conversational management has been neglected, and put forward a program to correct this.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CUI '23: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
ISBN (Print) | 9798400700149 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 19 Jul 2023 |
Event | 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces 2023 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 19 Jul 2023 → 21 Jul 2023 |
Conference
Conference | 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces 2023 |
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Country/Territory | Netherlands |
City | Eindhoven |
Period | 19/07/23 → 21/07/23 |
Keywords
- conversational user interfaces
- multi-party dialogue
- social robots
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Software