WORKSHOP: Bridging the Gap: An NSF Workshop on Conversational Agents and Human-Robot Interaction

该奖项资助研究人员参加将在华盛顿，华盛顿特区举行的为期两天的研讨会，题为“弥合差距：对话代理和人机交互的NSF研讨会”。最近的技术进步导致了机器人和嵌入式会话代理在各种领域和环境中的开发和采用的增加。随着这些智能体和机器人在日常生活中变得越来越普遍，机器人和智能体的研究人员和设计人员必须了解人类和非人类智能体之间合作的共同挑战和机遇。该奖项资助参与具体会话代理和人机交互领域的研究人员参加研讨会，为两个领域的共同研究议程奠定基础。研讨会涉及主旨发言人与其他小组成员评论每个领域的状态，分组会议讨论共同感兴趣的跨领域主题，以及制定共享研究议程，以确定当前的重大挑战和机会，实现对话代理和人机交互领域之间的富有成效的合作。讨论的广泛主题包括体现（物理或虚拟）的挑战，在混合人类代理团队的协调，人类代理合作的社会和情感动力学，控制系统和学习，以及人类代理合作的伦理影响。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This award funds participation of researchers in a 2-day workshop to be held in Washington, D.C. entitled "Bridging the Gap: An NSF Workshop on Conversational Agents and Human-Robot Interaction". Recent technical advances have led to increased development and adoption of robots and embodied conversational agents in a variety of domains and contexts. As these agents and robots become increasingly ubiquitous in everyday life, it will become essential for researchers and designers of both robots and agents to understand the common challenges and opportunities for collaboration between humans and nonhuman agents. This award funds the attendance of researchers in the fields of embodied conversational agents and human-robot interaction for a workshop to lay the groundwork for a shared research agenda across both fields. The workshop involves keynote speakers commenting on the state of each field with panelists from the other, breakout sessions for discussion of crosscutting themes of common interest, and the development of a shared research agenda to identify current grand challenges and opportunities for productive collaboration between the fields of embodied conversational agents and human-robot interaction. The broad themes discussed include the challenges of embodiment (physical or virtual), coordination in mixed human-agent teams, social and affective dynamics of human-agent collaboration, control systems and learning, and the ethical implications of human-agent collaboration.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.