I am a PhD-student and research associate in Stefan Kopp's Sociable Agents Group at the Center of Excellence ‘Cognitive Interaction Technology’ and Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University. I am working in the research project ‘Dialogue Coordination for Sociable Agents’.
Smooth and trouble-free interaction in dialogue is only possible if interlocutors are able to coordinate their actions with each other. Thus, knowledge of human coordination devices should be at the basis of computer interfaces such as embodied conversational agents or dialogue systems. The aim of my research is to get a better knowledge of intrapersonal feedback use in dialogue – a ubiquitous, expressive, economic and rapid coordination device – and how it can be modelled computationally for embodied conversational agents. My research questions are (1) how humans use feedback, (2) how taking into account listener feedback can lead to conversational agents that are attentive speakers, and (3) how conversational agents can operationalise feedback in such a way that users adapt their speech to their capabilities.
Buschmeier, H. & Kopp, S. (2013). Co-constructing grounded symbols—Feedback and incremental adaptation in human–agent dialogue. Künstliche Intelligenz, 27:137–143. [pdf/preprint, bib]
Buschmeier, H. & Włodarczak, M. (2013). TextGridTools: A TextGrid processing and analysis toolkit for Python. In Proceedings der 24. Konferenz zur Elektronischen Sprachsignalverarbeitung, pp. 152–157, Bielefeld, Germany. [pdf, bib, poster, software]
Buschmeier, H. & Kopp, S. (2012). Understanding how well you understood – Context-sensitive interpretation of multimodal user feedback. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 517–519, Santa Cruz, CA. [pdf, bib]
Buschmeier, H. & Kopp, S. (2012). Using a Bayesian model of the listener to unveil the dialogue information state. In SemDial 2012: Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pp. 12–20, Paris, France. [pdf, bib, model]
Buschmeier, H. & Kopp, S. (2012). Adapting language production to listener feedback behaviour. In Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Feedback Behaviors in Dialog, pp. 7–10, Stevenson, WA. [pdf, bib]
Włodarczak, M., Buschmeier, H., Malisz, Z., Kopp, S., & Wagner, P. (2012). Listener head gestures and verbal feedback expressions in a distraction task. In Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Feedback Behaviors in Dialog, pp. 93–96, Stevenson, WA. [pdf, bib]
Buschmeier, H., Baumann, T., Dosch, B., Kopp, S., & Schlangen, D. (2012). Combining incremental language generation and incremental speech synthesis for adaptive information presentation. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 295–303, Seoul, South Korea. [pdf, bib]
Striegnitz, K., Buschmeier, H., & Kopp, S. (2012). Referring in installments: A corpus study of spoken object references in an interactive virtual environment. In Proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference, pp. 12–16, Utica, IL. [pdf, bib]
Malisz, Z., Włodarczak, M., Buschmeier, H., Kopp, S., & Wagner, P. (2012). Prosodic characteristics of feedback expressions in distracted and non-distracted listeners. In Proceedings of The Listening Talker. An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Natural and Synthetic Modification of Speech in Response to Listening Conditions, pp. 36–39, Edinburgh, UK. [pdf, bib]
Buschmeier, H., & Kopp, S. (2011). Unveiling the information state with a Bayesian model of the listener. In SemDial 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, pp. 178–179, Los Angeles, CA, USA. [pdf, bib – non-peer-reviewed poster]
Buschmeier, H., & Kopp, S. (2011). Towards conversational agents that attend to and adapt to communicative user feedback. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 169–182, Reykjavik, Iceland. [pdf/preprint, bib]
Buschmeier, H., Malisz, Z., Włodarczak, M., Kopp, S., & Wagner, P. (2011). ‘Are you sure you're paying attention?’ – ‘Uh-huh’. Communicating understanding as a marker of attentiveness. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2011, pp. 2057–2060, Florence, Italy. [pdf/preprint, bib]
Schlangen, D., Baumann, T., Buschmeier, H., Buß, O., Kopp, S., Skantze, G., & Yaghoubzadeh, R. (2010). Middleware for incremental processing in conversational agents. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2010: the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 51–54, Tokyo, Japan. [pdf, bib]
Buschmeier, H., Bergmann, K., & Kopp, S. (2010). Modelling and evaluation of lexical and syntactic alignment with a priming-based microplanner. In Krahmer, E. & Theune, M., Eds., Empiricial Methods in Natural Language Generation, pp. 85–104, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany. [pdf/preprint, bib]
Buschmeier, H., Bergmann, K., & Kopp, S. (2010). Adaptive expressiveness – Virtual conversational agents that can align to their interaction partner. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 91–98, Toronto, Canada. [pdf, bib]
Kopp, S., Bergmann, K., Buschmeier, H., & Sadeghipour, A. (2009). Requirements and building blocks for sociable embodied agents. In Proceedings of KI 2009 the 32nd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 508–515, Paderborn, Germany. [pdf/preprint, bib]
Buschmeier, H., Bergmann, K., & Kopp, S. (2009). An alignment-capable microplanner for natural language generation. In Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pp. 82–89, Athens, Greece. [pdf, bib]
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Email: hbuschme@uni-bielefeld.de
Twitter: @hbuschme
Phone: +49-521/106-12171 Skype: hbuschme
Mail: PO-Box 10 01 31, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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