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Project I5-[DiaSpace]

Flexible Dialogue Control for Intuitive Spatial Communication


Principal Investigators

Prof. Dr. John A. Bateman
Dr. Hui Shi
Dr. Thora Tenbrink


Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Elena Andonova
Dr. Kavita Thomas


Student Assistants

Evelyn Bergmann
David Nakath
Anna Strotseva
Nils Mayer
Jan Hinsch
Aziza Nawazir
Bastian Ohmstede


Contact

tenbrink at sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de


Project Site

www.diaspace.uni-bremen.de

Summary

Natural and effective spatial communication requires the dynamic negotiation of spatial reference frames, spatial perspectives and discourse strategies. Speakers manage such negotiation by the fine-scale selection and alignment of linguistic forms sensitive to dialogue history, user-group defined norms and spatial context. Necessary negotiation mechanisms will be empirically derived, implemented within a dialogue system for natural interaction between users and artificial agents engaged in spatially-embedded tasks, and deployed in SFB/TR 8 projects for improved functionality and evaluation.



Subject Areas

Dialogue
Interaction
Computational Dialogue Systems
Spatial Language
Empirical Dialogue Investigation
User Modelling
Negotiation and Alignment
Spatial Reference Frames
Perspective-taking






Feb '09 SFB/TR 8
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