OLGA—a multimodal interactive information assistant

The listener's backchannels are an important part of dialogues. With appropriate backchannels, people are able to smoothly promote dialogues. Thus, backchannels are considered to be important in dialogues between not only humans but also humans and ...

Multimodal interaction systems combine visual information (involving images, text, sketches and so on) with voice, gestures and other modalities to provide flexible and powerful dialogue approaches, enabling users to choose one or more of the multiple ...

During dialogues, speakers need to be able to predict whether their partners understand their message. This is important for not only for human-to-human interaction but also human-to-agent interaction. We consider that if the listener's comprehension ...