Toward an argumentation-based dialogue framework for human-robot collaboration

Abstract

The research on human-robot dialogue to support fluent human robot interaction is still in its early stages. Current issues in the human-robot dialogue domain could be divided into two major categories, which are described in this proposal as the "what to say" problem and the "how to say it" problem. The "what to say" problem addresses ways to determine the content of plausible dialogue during human robot interaction, whereas the "how to say it" problem addresses the best ways for a robot to deliver that content (e.g., using text, gestures, speech or different modalities). Dialogue within the robotics domain also needs to address the "when to say it" problem that considers the timing of dialogue delivery (e.g., turn taking).