With the world population ageing and with the number of healthcare users needing
assistance and support increasing, healthcare is becoming more costly and, as such, the …

This paper presents a question answering (QA) system that will enable workers from the
manufacturing industry to'hands-free'request information. This kind of systems, that are …

The nature of industrial manufacturing processes and the continuous need to adapt
production systems to new demands require tools to support workers during transitions to …

Designing human–machine interactive systems requires cooperation between different
disciplines is required. In this work, we present a Dialogue Manager and a Language …

In this work we develop a fully data driven conversational agent capable of carrying out
motivational coaching sessions in Spanish, French, Norwegian, and English. Unlike the …

Within the context of Industry 4.0, AREVA is presented: a Voice Assistant with Augmented
Reality visualisations for the support and guidance of operators when carrying out tasks and …

This paper describes the final prototype of an assistive robot used for increasing
engagement of older adults in the context of SHAPES project. It then highlights lessons …

User Models (UM) are commonly employed to train and evaluate dialogue systems as they
generate dialogue samples that simulate end-user behavior. This paper presents a …

When Dialogue Systems (DS) face real usage, a challenge to solve is managing unforeseen
situations without breaking the coherence of the dialogue. One way to achieve this is by …

Conversational speech interface development, maintenance and evolution is challenging for
non-experts as it requires linguistic knowledge and proficiency in chatbot design and …