Dialogue Policies for Confusion Mitigation in Situated HRI

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Abstract

Confusion is a mental state triggered by cognitive disequilibrium that can occur in many types of task-oriented interaction, including Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). People may become confused while interacting with robots due to communicative or even task-centred challenges. To build a smooth and engaging HRI, it is insufficient for an agent to simply detect confusion; instead, the system should aim to mitigate the situation. In light of this, in this paper, we present our approach to a linguistic design of dialogue policies to build a dialogue framework to alleviate interlocutor confusion. We also outline our sketch and discuss challenges with respect to its operationalisation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 26th Workshop On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
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Publication statusPublished - 2022

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NameTechnological University Dublin

Keywords

  • Confusion
  • cognitive disequilibrium
  • task-oriented interaction
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • HRI
  • communicative challenges
  • task-centred challenges
  • dialogue policies
  • dialogue framework
  • interlocutor confusion

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