Situated dialogue and understanding spatial organization: Knowing what is where and what you can do there

Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Hendrik Zender, Patric Jensfelt and Henrik I. Christensen

Abstract:

The paper presents an HRI architecture for human-augmented mapping. Through interaction with a human, the robot can augment its autonomously learnt metric map with qualitative information about locations and objects in the environment. The system implements various interaction strategies observed in independent Wizard-of-Oz studies. The paper discusses an ontology-based approach to representing and inferring 2.5-dimensional spatial organization we adopt, and how knowledge of spatial organization can be acquired autonomously or through spoken dialogue interaction.

BibTeX Entry:

@InProceedings{Kruijff06b,
  author =       {Geert-Jan M. Kruijff and Hendrik Zender and Patric Jensfelt and Henrik I. Christensen},
  title =        {Situated dialogue and understanding spatial organization: Knowing what is where and what you can do there},
  booktitle =    {Proc.~of IEEE Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication {(ROMAN)}},
  year =         2006,
  address =      {Hartfordshire, UK},
  month =        sep
}

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