A Granular Architecture for Dynamic Realtime Dialogue

  • Authors:
  • Kristinn R. Thórisson;Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Analysis & Design of Intelligent Agents, and School of Computer Science, Reykjavik, Iceland 103;Center for Analysis & Design of Intelligent Agents, and School of Computer Science, Reykjavik, Iceland 103

  • Venue:
  • IVA '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a dialogue architecture that addresses perception, planning and execution of multimodal dialogue behavior. Motivated by realtime human performance and modular architectural principles, the architecture is full-duplex ("open-mic"); prosody is continuously analyzed and used for mixed-control turntaking behaviors (reactive and deliberative) and incremental utterance production. The architecture is fine-grain and highly expandable; we are currently applying it in more complex multimodal interaction and dynamic task environments. We describe here the theoretical underpinnings behind the architecture, compare it to prior efforts, discuss the methodology and give a brief overview of its current runtime characteristics.