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Title:Hosting Activities: Experience with and Future Directions for a Robot Agent Host
Authors: Candace Sidner ; Myroslava Dzikovska
Date: 2006
Publication Title:Proceedings of IUI 2002 (ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces)
Publisher:ACM
Publication Type:Conference Paper Publication Status:Published
Page Nos:143-150
Abstract:
This paper discusses hosting activities. Hosting activities are a general class of collaborative activity in which an agent provides guidance in the form of information, entertainment, education or other services in the user's environment (which may be an artificial or the natural world) and may also request that the human user undertake actions to support the fulfillment of those services. This paper reports on experience in building a robot agent for hosting activities, both the architecture and applications being used. The paper then turns to a range of issues to be addressed in creating hosting agents, especially robotic ones. The issues include the tasks and capabilities needed for hosting agents, and social relations, especially human trust of agent hosts. Lastly the paper proposes a new evaluation metric for hosting agents.
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@InProceedings{EDI-INF-RR-0669,
author = { Candace Sidner and Myroslava Dzikovska },
title = {Hosting Activities: Experience with and Future Directions for a Robot Agent Host},
book title = {Proceedings of IUI 2002 (ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces)},
publisher = {ACM},
year = 2006,
pages = {143-150},
}


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