The State of SLIVAR: What's next for robots, human-robot interaction, and (spoken) dialogue systems?
We synthesize the reported results and recommendations of recent workshops and seminars that convened to discuss open questions within the important intersection of robotics, human-robot interaction, and spoken dialogue systems research. The goal of this growing area of research interest is to enable people to more effectively and naturally communicate with robots. To carry forward opportunities networking and discussion towards concrete, potentially fundable projects, we encourage interested parties to consider participating in future virtual and in-person discussions and workshops.
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09in addition to more researchincluding shareable software modules and internal interfaces, inexpensive hardware, baseline systems, and diverse corpora
10since robots are embodied, speech should function together with other communications modalities,
11since robots operate in real time, their speech and language processing components must also
12Third, for robustness, robots need higher-bandwidth communication with users and better handling of uncertainty, including simultaneous consideration of multiple hypotheses and goals