| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R59038/01 |
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MONITOR: Information Filtering in Task-Oriented Dialogue |
| Principal Investigator: |
Bard, Dr E |
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| Department: |
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 2002 |
Ends: |
30 September 2005 |
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135,955
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| Human Communication in ICT |
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Multi-media communications devices seem to be based on the idea that people have unlimited capacity for processing pertinent information as they communicate. Recent work in psychology reveals, however, that people have limited capacities and that they will ignore complex information or take shortcuts in reasoning about it, even if the information is very pertinent to the task in hand. This project is directed to the ways in which normal adults streamline a process basic to human-human communication, discovering and keeping track of what their listeners know. In a series of psychological experiments, the project will use non-invasive eye-tracking to discover when speakers look at indications of where their listeners are looking during spoken task-oriented dialogues. Experimental conditions will vary visual information about listener gaze, number of listeners, and value of listener information. Coded transcriptions of what speakers say, time-aligned to eye-tracking records, will reveal whether and how visually acquired knowledge about listeners affects the course of the dialogue. The results will inform both psychological models of language production and guidelines for efficient engineering of multimedia communication systems.
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