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We describe experiments towards building a conversational digital assistant that considers the preferred conversational style of the user. In particular, these experiments are designed to measure whether users prefer and trust an assistant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Katherine Metcalf , Barry-John Theobald , Garrett Weinberg , Robert Lee , Ing-Marie Jonsson , Russ Webb , Nicholas Apostoloff

Recent advances in conversational AI have been substantial, but developing real-time systems for perceptual task guidance remains challenging. These systems must provide interactive, proactive assistance based on streaming visual inputs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yichi Zhang , Xin Luna Dong , Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Anuj Kumar , Babak Damavandi , Joyce Chai , Seungwhan Moon

This study examines conversational business analytics, an approach that utilizes AI to address the technical competency gaps that hinder end users from effectively using traditional self-service analytics. By facilitating natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Adem Alparslan

Automated real-time evaluation of counselor-client interaction is important for ensuring quality counseling but the rules are difficult to articulate. Recent advancements in machine learning methods show the possibility of learning such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Anqi Li , Jingsong Ma , Lizhi Ma , Pengfei Fang , Hongliang He , Zhenzhong Lan

We will demonstrate a conversational products recommendation agent. This system shows how we combine research in personalized recommendation systems with research in dialogue systems to build a virtual sales agent. Based on new deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang , Yunfei Chen , Roger Jin

This article examines the characteristics of human errors in processing transportation requests. The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in maritime transportation is explored. The main methods and technologies used for automating and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Oleksandr Korostin

Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) is an emerging technology with a primary goal to assist the knowledge worker by taking care of repetitive, routine and low-cognitive tasks. Conversational agents that can interact with users in a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Alena Moiseeva , Dietrich Trautmann , Michael Heimann , Hinrich Schütze

While Alexa can perform over 100,000 skills on paper, its capability covers only a fraction of what is possible on the web. To reach the full potential of an assistant, it is desirable that individuals can create skills to automate their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Michael H. Fischer , Giovanni Campagna , Euirim Choi , Monica S. Lam

Virtual assistants, also known as intelligent conversational systems such as Google's Virtual Assistant and Apple's Siri, interact with human-like responses to users' queries and finish specific tasks. Meanwhile, existing recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Dimitrios Rafailidis , Yannis Manolopoulos

The use of semi-autonomous and autonomous robotic assistants to aid in care of the elderly is expected to ease the burden on human caretakers, with small-stage testing already occurring in a variety of countries. Yet, it is likely that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Hanan Rosemarin , John P. Dickerson , Sarit Kraus

In the realm of online privacy, privacy assistants play a pivotal role in empowering users to manage their privacy effectively. Although recent studies have shown promising progress in tackling tasks such as privacy violation detection and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Gonul Ayci , Arzucan Özgür , Murat Şensoy , Pınar Yolum

Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in voice assistants can utilize prefetching to partially hide the latency of response generation. Prefetching involves passing a preliminary ASR hypothesis to downstream systems in order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Andreas Schwarz , Di He , Maarten Van Segbroeck , Mohammed Hethnawi , Ariya Rastrow

We focus on the problem of designing an artificial agent (AI), capable of assisting a human user to complete a task. Our goal is to guide human users towards optimal task performance while keeping their cognitive load as low as possible.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Gilwoo Lee , Christoforos Mavrogiannis , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

Effective human-AI collaboration for physical task completion has significant potential in both everyday activities and professional domains. AI agents equipped with informative guidance can enhance human performance, but evaluating such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Filippos Bellos , Yayuan Li , Cary Shu , Ruey Day , Jeffrey M. Siskind , Jason J. Corso

While intelligent virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant have become ubiquitous in modern life, they still face limitations in their ability to follow multi-step instructions and accomplish complex goals articulated in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yanchu Guan , Dong Wang , Zhixuan Chu , Shiyu Wang , Feiyue Ni , Ruihua Song , Longfei Li , Jinjie Gu , Chenyi Zhuang

Interactive Artificial Intelligent(AI) assistant systems are designed to offer timely guidance to help human users to complete a variety tasks. One of the remaining challenges is to understand user's mental states during the task for more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Megan Su , Yuwei Bao

Customizing pre-trained text-to-image generation model has attracted massive research interest recently, due to its huge potential in real-world applications. Although existing methods are able to generate creative content for a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yufan Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , Tong Sun

Today, technological advancement is increasing day by day. Earlier, there was only a computer system in which we could only perform a few tasks. But now, machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and a few more technologies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sumit Kumar , Varun Gupta , Sankalp Sagar , Sachin Kumar Singh

This paper introduces a multi-agent application system designed to enhance office collaboration efficiency and work quality. The system integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing technologies,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Songtao Sun , Jingyi Li , Yuanfei Dong , Haoguang Liu , Chenxin Xu , Fuyang Li , Qiang Liu

This paper investigates the implementation of voice-enabled Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi. Virtual Assistants are being a new trend in how we interact or do computations with physical devices. A voice-enabled system…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Shailesh D. Arya , Samir Patel