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While diversity has become a debated issue in design, very little research exists on positive use-cases for diversity beyond scholarly criticism. The current work addresses this gap through the case of a diversity-aware chatbot, exploring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Peter Kun , Amalia De Götzen , Miriam Bidoglia , Niels Jørgen Gommesen , George Gaskell

This paper examines some common problems in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) causing failures and troubles in Chat. A given use case's design decisions start with the suitable robot, the suitable chatting model, identifying common problems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Manal Helal , Patrick Holthaus , Gabriella Lakatos , Farshid Amirabdollahian

We introduce BenchBot, a novel software suite for benchmarking the performance of robotics research across both photorealistic 3D simulations and real robot platforms. BenchBot provides a simple interface to the sensorimotor capabilities of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ben Talbot , David Hall , Haoyang Zhang , Suman Raj Bista , Rohan Smith , Feras Dayoub , Niko Sünderhauf

In this paper, we describe the foundations for generating a chatbot out of a website equipped with simple, bot-specific HTML annotations. The approach is part of what we call conversational web browsing, i.e., a dialog-based, natural…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Pietro Chittò , Marcos Baez , Florian Daniel , Boualem Benatallah

Latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data gave rise to Artificial Intelligent agents like Open AI's ChatGPT, which has recently become the fastest growing application since Facebook and WhatsApp. ChatGPT has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Forhan Bin Emdad , Benhur Ravuri , Lateef Ayinde , Mohammad Ishtiaque Rahman

The reliability of mobile devices is a challenge for vendors, since the mobile software stack has significantly grown in complexity. In this paper, we study how to assess the impact of faults on the quality of user experience in the Android…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Domenico Cotroneo , Antonio Ken Iannillo , Roberto Natella , Stefano Rosiello

Program repair research has made tremendous progress over the last few years, and software development bots are now being invented to help developers gain productivity. In this paper, we investigate the concept of a " program repair bot "…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Simon Urli , Zhongxing Yu , Lionel Seinturier , Martin Monperrus

In the rapidly evolving domain of artificial intelligence, chatbots have emerged as a potent tool for various applications ranging from e-commerce to healthcare. This research delves into the intricacies of chatbot technology, from its…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Feriel Khennouche , Youssef Elmir , Nabil Djebari , Yassine Himeur , Abbes Amira

Debugging is a critical but challenging task for programmers. This paper proposes ChatDBG, an AI-powered debugging assistant. ChatDBG integrates large language models (LLMs) to significantly enhance the capabilities and user-friendliness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kyla H. Levin , Nicolas van Kempen , Emery D. Berger , Stephen N. Freund

A comparison between three chatbots which are based on large language models, namely ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4 and Google Bard is presented, focusing on their ability to give correct answers to mathematics and logic problems. In particular, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Vagelis Plevris , George Papazafeiropoulos , Alejandro Jiménez Rios

Much research on software engineering and software testing relies on experimental studies based on fault injection. Fault injection, however, is not often relevant to emulate real-world software faults since it "blindly" injects large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Ahmed Khanfir , Anil Koyuncu , Mike Papadakis , Maxime Cordy , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein , Yves Le Traon

Chatbots are used in many applications, e.g., automated agents, smart home assistants, interactive characters in online games, etc. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure they do not behave in undesired manners, providing offensive or toxic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Wai Man Si , Michael Backes , Jeremy Blackburn , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gianluca Stringhini , Savvas Zannettou , Yang Zhang

This paper reports on progress towards building an online language learning tool to provide learners with conversational experience by using dialog systems as conversation practice partners. Our system can adapt to users' language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yu Li , Chun-Yen Chen , Dian Yu , Sam Davidson , Ryan Hou , Xun Yuan , Yinghua Tan , Derek Pham , Zhou Yu

Interview chatbots engage users in a text-based conversation to draw out their views and opinions. It is, however, challenging to build effective interview chatbots that can handle user free-text responses to open-ended questions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ziang Xiao , Michelle X. Zhou , Wenxi Chen , Huahai Yang , Changyan Chi

ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, has gained popularity for its capability in generating human-like responses. However, this feature carries several risks, most notably due to its deceptive behaviour such as offering users misleading or fabricated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xiao Zhan , Yifan Xu , Stefan Sarkadi

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT (i.e., gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4) exhibited remarkable advancement in a range of software engineering tasks associated with source code such as code review and code generation. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Michael Fu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Van Nguyen , Trung Le

This paper investigates the enhancement of scientific literature chatbots through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), with a focus on evaluating vector- and graph-based retrieval systems. The proposed chatbot leverages both structured…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hamideh Ghanadian , Amin Kamali , Mohammad Hossein Tekieh

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized user interactions with knowledge-based systems, enabling chatbots to synthesize vast amounts of information and assist with complex, exploratory tasks. However, LLM-based chatbots…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yingzhe Peng , Xiaoting Qin , Zhiyang Zhang , Jue Zhang , Qingwei Lin , Xu Yang , Dongmei Zhang , Saravan Rajmohan , Qi Zhang

Bug localization aims to reduce debugging time by recommending program elements that are relevant for a specific bug report. To date, researchers have primarily addressed this problem by applying different information retrieval techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Agnieszka Ciborowska , Michael J. Decker , Kostadin Damevski

Unique challenges arise when testing mobile applications due to their prevailing event-driven nature and complex contextual features (e.g. sensors, notifications). Current automated input generation approaches for Android apps are typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk