Accessing previously shared interaction states through natural language

Abstract

An important ambition of human-computer interaction research is to develop interfaces that employ natural language in ways that meet users' expectations. Drawing on elements of Clark's account of language use, this idealized form of human-computer interaction can be viewed as a coordination problem involving agents who work together to convey and thus coordinate their interaction goals. In the modeling work presented here, a sequence of interrelated modules developed in the Polyscheme cognitive architecture is used to implement several stages of reasoning the user of a simple video application would expect an addressee-ultimately, the application-to work through, were the interaction goal to locate a scene they had previously viewed together. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.