This tutorial surveys neural approaches to conversational AI that were developed in the last
few years. We group conversational systems into three categories:(1) question answering …

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) are computer programs that provide instruction adapted to
the needs of individual students. Dialog systems are computer programs that communicate …

Building an interactive AI assistant that can perceive, reason, and collaborate with humans
in the real world has been a long-standing pursuit in the AI community. This work is part of a …

This research investigates the meaning of “human-computer relationship” and presents
techniques for constructing, maintaining, and evaluating such relationships, based on …

Face Transfer is a method for map** videorecorded performances of one individual to
facial animations of another. It extracts visemes (speech-related mouth articulations) …

This paper explores the concept of engagement, the process by which individuals in an
interaction start, maintain and end their perceived connection to one another. The paper …

Based on a study of the engagement process between humans, we have developed and
implemented an initial computational model for recognizing engagement between a human …

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System Use............... 435Taking Over Parts of Routine Tasks............... 435Adapting the …

This paper reports on a study of human subjects with a robot designed to mimic human
conversational gaze behavior in collaborative conversation. The robot and the human …

In this paper, we describe RavenClaw, a plan-based, task-independent dialog management
framework. RavenClaw isolates the domain-specific aspects of the dialog control logic from …