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A fruitful collaboration is based on the mutual knowledge of each other skills and on the possibility of communicating their own limits and proposing alternatives to adapt the execution of a task to the capabilities of the collaborators.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Davide Ferrari , Federico Benzi , Cristian Secchi

Conversational agents, also known as chatbots, are versatile tools that have the potential of being used in dialogical argumentation. They could possibly be deployed in tasks such as persuasion for behaviour change (e.g. persuading people…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Lisa A. Chalaguine , Anthony Hunter , Fiona L. Hamilton , Henry W. W. Potts

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

Conversational practice, while crucial for all language learners, can be challenging to get enough of and very expensive. Chatbots are computer programs developed to engage in conversations with humans. They are designed as software avatars…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Jasna Petrovic , Mladjan Jovanovic

As governments increasingly adopt digital tools, public service chatbots have emerged as a growing communication channel. This paper explores the design considerations and engagement opportunities of public service chatbots, using a 311…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jieyu Zhou , Rui Shen , Yue You , Carl DiSalvo , Lynn Dombrowski , Christopher MacLellan

Apart from the coherence and fluency of responses, an empathetic chatbot emphasizes more on people's feelings. By considering altruistic behaviors between human interaction, empathetic chatbots enable people to get a better interactive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Jiun-Hao Jhan , Chao-Peng Liu , Shyh-Kang Jeng , Hung-Yi Lee

ScoutBot is a dialogue interface to physical and simulated robots that supports collaborative exploration of environments. The demonstration will allow users to issue unconstrained spoken language commands to ScoutBot. ScoutBot will prompt…

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

In recent times, a large number of people have been involved in establishing their own businesses. Unlike humans, chatbots can serve multiple customers at a time, are available 24/7 and reply in less than a fraction of a second. Though…

Educational chatbots come with a promise of interactive and personalized learning experiences, yet their development has been limited by the restricted free interaction capabilities of available platforms and the difficulty of encoding…

As chatbots increasingly blur the boundary between automated systems and human conversation, the foundations of trust in these systems warrant closer examination. While regulatory and policy frameworks tend to define trust in normative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aditya Gulati , Nuria Oliver

Tabular data is the most common format to publish and exchange structured data online. A clear example is the growing number of open data portals published by public administrations. However, exploitation of these data sources is currently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Marcos Gomez-Vazquez , Jordi Cabot , Robert Clarisó

Enabling blockchain technology into IoT can help to achieve a proper distributed consensus based IoT system that overcomes disadvantages of today's centralized infrastructures, such as, among others, high cloud server maintenance costs,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gokhan Sagirlar , John D. Sheehan , Emanuele Ragnoli

As the wide adoption of intelligent chatbot in human daily life, user demands for such systems evolve from basic task-solving conversations to more casual and friend-like communication. To meet the user needs and build emotional bond with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Danning Zheng , Ruihua Song , Tianran Hu , Hao Fu , Jin Zhou

Towards realizing an intelligent networked society, enabling low-cost low-energy connectivity for things, also known as Internet of Things (IoT), is of crucial importance. While the existing wireless access networks require centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Amin Azari , Mahmoud Abbasi

Much research in computational argumentation assumes that arguments and counterarguments can be obtained in some way. Yet, to improve and apply models of argument, we need methods for acquiring them. Current approaches include argument…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Lisa A. Chalaguine , Anthony Hunter , Henry W. W. Potts , Fiona L. Hamilton

As AI chatbots shift from tools to companions, critical questions arise: who controls the conversation in human-AI chatrooms? This paper explores perceived human and AI agency in sustained conversation. We report a month-long longitudinal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Bhada Yun , Evgenia Taranova , April Yi Wang

Nowadays, all sectors utilize devices that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT) for the purpose of connecting and exchanging information with other devices and systems over the Internet. This increases the diversity of devices and their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Fatma Hmissi , Sofiane Ouni

Multi-party Conversational Systems are systems with natural language interaction between one or more people or systems. From the moment that an utterance is sent to a group, to the moment that it is replied in the group by a member, several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Maira Gatti de Bayser , Paulo Cavalin , Renan Souza , Alan Braz , Heloisa Candello , Claudio Pinhanez , Jean-Pierre Briot

The conversational agents is one of the most interested topics in computer science field in the recent decade. Which can be composite from more than one subject in this field, which you need to apply Natural Language Processing Concepts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Moataz Mohammed , Mostafa M. Aref