Modeling Feedback in Interaction With Conversational Agents—A Review
2022 (English)In: Frontiers in Computer Science, E-ISSN 2624-9898, Vol. 4, article id 744574Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure that its communicative acts have the intended consequences. At the same time, the human interacting with the agent will also seek feedback, in order to ensure that her communicative acts have the intended consequences. In this review article, we give an overview of past and current research on how intelligent agents should be able to both give meaningful feedback toward humans, as well as understanding feedback given by the users. The review covers feedback across different modalities (e.g., speech, head gestures, gaze, and facial expression), different forms of feedback (e.g., backchannels, clarification requests), and models for allowing the agent to assess the user's level of understanding and adapt its behavior accordingly. Finally, we analyse some shortcomings of current approaches to modeling feedback, and identify important directions for future research.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Frontiers Media SA , 2022. Vol. 4, article id 744574
Keywords [en]
feedback, grounding, spoken dialogue, multimodal signals, human-agent interaction, review
Keywords [sv]
återmatning, reaktion, dialog, multimodala signaler, multimodalitet, människa-agent-kommunikation, recension
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Human-computer Interaction; Speech and Music Communication
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-310401DOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.744574ISI: 000778821100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85127522996OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-310401DiVA, id: diva2:1648265
Projects
COIN-SSFConstructing Explainability (438445824)
Funder
Swedish Foundation for Strategic ResearchGerman Research Foundation (DFG)
Note
QC 20220429
2022-03-302022-03-302022-06-25Bibliographically approved