Communicative Capabilities of Agents for the Collaboration in a Human-Agent Team

Mukesh Barange (1, 2, 3) , Alexandre Kabil (2, 1, 3) , Camille de Keukelaere (2, 1, 3) , Pierre Chevaillier (3, 1, 2)

1 ENIB - École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
2 Lab-STICC - Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance
3 Lab-STICC_ENIB_CID_IHSEV

The coordination is an essential ingredient for the human-agent teamwork. It requires team members to share knowledge to establish common grounding and mutual awareness among them. In this paper, we propose a behavioral architecture C 2 BDI that allows to enhance the knowledge sharing using natural language communication between team members. We define collaborative conversation protocols that provide proactive behavior to agents for the coordination between team members. We have applied this architecture to a real scenario in a col-laborative virtual environment for training. Our solution enables users to coordinate with other team members.

Mots clés: Decision-Making; virtual humans; Human-Computer Interaction; Cooperation; Dialogue Management

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Mukesh Barange, Alexandre Kabil, Camille de Keukelaere, Pierre Chevaillier. Communicative Capabilities of Agents for the Collaboration in a Human-Agent Team. The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Mar 2014, Barcelona, Spain. ⟨hal-01165932⟩