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In human-robot teams where agents collaborate together, there needs to be a clear allocation of tasks to agents. Task allocation can aid in achieving the presumed benefits of human-robot teams, such as improved team performance. Many task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Arsha Ali , Dawn M. Tilbury , Lionel P. Robert

This work compares user collaboration with conversational personal assistants vs. teams of expert chatbots. Two studies were performed to investigate whether each approach affects accomplishment of tasks and collaboration costs.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Claudio S. Pinhanez , Heloisa Candello , Mauro C. Pichiliani , Marisa Vasconcelos , Melina Guerra , Maíra G. de Bayser , Paulo Cavalin

This paper reviews the current development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for the application area of robot communication. The study of the control and operation of multiple robots collaboratively toward a common goal is fast…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-01 S. H. Alsamhi , Ou Ma , M. S. Ansari

Task allocation using a team or coalition of robots is one of the most important problems in robotics, computer science, operational research, and artificial intelligence. In recent work, research has focused on handling complex objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Haris Aziz , Arindam Pal , Ali Pourmiri , Fahimeh Ramezani , Brendan Sims

Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language processing, task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both academic and industrial communities. In this paper, we survey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Zheng Zhang , Ryuichi Takanobu , Qi Zhu , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu

Robot-moderated group discussions have the potential to facilitate engaging and productive interactions among human participants. Previous work on topic management in conversational agents has predominantly focused on human engagement and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Georgios Hadjiantonis , Sarah Gillet , Marynel Vázquez , Iolanda Leite , Fethiye Irmak Dogan

The use of chatbots has spread, generating great interest in the industry for the possibility of automating tasks within the execution of their processes. The implementation of chatbots, however simple, is a complex endeavor that involves…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Bedilia Estrada-Torres , Adela del-Río-Ortega , Manuel Resinas

Software engineering bots - automated tools that handle tedious tasks - are increasingly used by industrial and open source projects to improve developer productivity. Current research in this area is held back by a lack of consensus of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Linda Erlenhov , Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto , Philipp Leitner

Developing adaptable, extensible, and accurate task bots with minimal or zero human intervention is a significant challenge in dialog research. This thesis examines the obstacles and potential solutions for creating such bots, focusing on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaoying Zhang

The increasing progress in artificial intelligence and respective machine learning technology has fostered the proliferation of chatbots to the point where today they are being embedded into various human-technology interaction tasks. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Johanna Schmidhuber , Stephan Schlögl , Christian Ploder

Adaptive task planning is fundamental to ensuring effective and seamless human-robot collaboration. This paper introduces a robot task planning framework that takes into account both human leading/following preferences and performance,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ali Noormohammadi-Asl , Stephen L. Smith , Kerstin Dautenhahn

Real-time intelligence applications in Internet of Things (IoT) environment depend on timely data communication. However, it is challenging to transmit and analyse massive data of various modalities. Recently proposed task-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shiqi Wang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Bots are software systems designed to support users by automating a specific process, task, or activity. When such systems implement a conversational component to interact with the users, they are also known as conversational agents. Bots,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Stefano Lambiase , Gemma Catolino , Fabio Palomba , Filomena Ferrucci

In the rapidly evolving landscape of human-robot collaboration, effective communication between humans and robots is crucial for complex task execution. Traditional request-response systems often lack naturalness and may hinder efficiency.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Davide Ferrari , Filippo Alberi , Cristian Secchi

Existing dialogue corpora and models are typically designed under two disjoint motives: while task-oriented systems focus on achieving functional goals (e.g., booking hotels), open-domain chatbots aim at making socially engaging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Kai Sun , Seungwhan Moon , Paul Crook , Stephen Roller , Becka Silvert , Bing Liu , Zhiguang Wang , Honglei Liu , Eunjoon Cho , Claire Cardie

With the increasing prevalence and diversity of robots interacting in the real world, there is need for flexible, on-the-fly planning and cooperation. Large Language Models are starting to be explored in a multimodal setup for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-01 William Hunt , Toby Godfrey , Mohammad D. Soorati

When teams of robots collaborate to complete a task, communication is often necessary. Like humans, robot teammates should implicitly communicate through their actions: but interpreting our partner's actions is typically difficult, since a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Dylan P. Losey , Mengxi Li , Jeannette Bohg , Dorsa Sadigh

In this paper, we outline the vision of chatbots that facilitate the interaction between citizens and policy-makers at the city scale. We report the results of a co-design session attended by more than 60 participants. We give an outlook of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Pavel Kucherbaev , Achilleas Psyllidis , Alessandro Bozzon

Humans engaged in collaborative activities are naturally able to convey their intentions to teammates through multi-modal communication, which is made up of explicit and implicit cues. Similarly, a more natural form of human-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Simone Macciò , Alessandro Carfì , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

Effective problem solving among multiple agents requires a better understanding of the role of communication in collaboration. In this paper we show that there are communicative strategies that greatly improve the performance of…

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