Multiple-Agent Dialogue

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Multiple-Agent Dialogue

• Thomas K Harris, Satanjeev (Bano) Banerjee Alex
  Rudnicky
• Boeing Kick-off Meeting
• June 8, 2004

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What do we have today?

• A platform that supports multiple (robot)
  participants
• Sphinx II ASR Festival TTS
• RavenClaw dialogue manager
• Galaxy-II message-passing architecture
• Carmen back-end interface
• A basic corridor movement domain
• Commands to move robots along in vectors and
  towards named locations
• Mechanisms for describing robot status and
  location to human

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System architecture
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Does it work?

• Tested on 6 users in a maze navigation scenario
• Around half of the tasks were successful
• Timing issues with moving robots trying to
  describe their locations
• Robot feedback to commands was insufficient
• People actually preferred dealing with multiple
  robots
• System and experiments described in a paper
• Its a little buggy yet ?

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TeamTalk The movie
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Tasks

• Direction understanding
• Dialogue structure
• Location and task description generation
• More bots (weve never had more than 2)
• Interaction speed