'Are you sure you're paying attention?' – 'Uh-huh'. Communicating understanding as a marker of attentiveness

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'Are you sure you're paying attention?' – 'Uh-huh'. Communicating understanding as a marker of attentiveness
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Buschmeier, Hendrik ; Malisz, Zofia ; Wlodarczak, Marcin ; Kopp, Stefan ; Wagner, Petra
Erschienen
2011
Sprache
Englisch
Dokumenttyp
Konferenzband
URN
urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-21439191

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Abstract

We report on the ﬁrst results of an experiment designed to investigate properties of communicative feedback produced by non-attentive listeners in dialogue. Listeners were found to produce less feedback when distracted by an ancillary task. A decreased number of feedback expressions communicating understanding was a particularly reliable indicator of distractedness. We argue this ﬁnding could be used to facilitate recognition of attentional states in dialogue system users.

Index Terms: communicative feedback; dialogue; distraction;
engagement; attention; dual task

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