Partner Modelling and its Impact on Human-Machine Dialogue Interactions

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• Ben Cowan: UCD School of Information and Communication Studies
• Wednesday 17 May 2017, 11:00-12:00
• Computer Science, The Sloman Lounge (UG).

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Through intelligent personal assistants like Siri, Google Home and Amazon Alexa, speech is set to become a mainstream interaction modality. These types of interactions fundamentally rely on a spoken dialogue between machine and human to complete tasks, which leaves the possibility that psychological mechanisms that influence human-human dialogue are also at play in human-machine dialogue interactions. My talk will focus specifically on my work into the role of people’s beliefs about machine partners’ abilities (their partner models) in this dialogue context, specifically what influences these beliefs in the first place and how these significantly affect language production in interaction.

Bio: Dr Benjamin R Cowan is a Lecturer at UCD ’s School of Information & Communication Studies. He completed his undergraduate studies in Psychology & Business Studies (2006) as well as his PhD in Usability Engineering (2011) at the University of Edinburgh. He also previously held the role of Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science’s HCI Centre at the University of Birmingham. His research lies at the juncture between psychology, human-computer interaction and speech technology, investigating how the design of speech interfaces impacts user experience and user language choices in interaction.

This talk is part of the Human Computer Interaction seminars series.

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