sponsored by the National Science Foundation (Award IIS-0415150)
2004-2007, extended through 2009
PIs: Nigel Ward, David Novick and Karen Ward
The aim is to develop and evaluate techniques which allow dialog systems to interpret and generate non-verbal and other indications of attitude, feeling, etc., adding these dimensions to human-computer interaction and thereby improving these real-time aspects of system usability. The methods include recording human-human dialogs in controlled domains, analyzing the prosodic and contextual cues that humans use, interpreting these cues as expressing pragmatic dimensions of the interaction, building systems to use these cues, and evaluating their performance with actual users.