The State of SLIVAR: What's next for robots, human-robot interaction, and (spoken) dialogue systems?
It addresses the problem of enabling more effective human-robot communication for researchers and practitioners, but is incremental as it summarizes existing discussions without new findings.
The paper synthesizes results and recommendations from recent workshops on robotics, human-robot interaction, and spoken dialogue systems to advance natural communication between people and robots, encouraging participation in future discussions for fundable projects.
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.